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Austria Just Announced A 54% Haircut Of Senior Creditors In First “Bail In” Under New European Rules

April 10, 2016

Austria Just Announced A 54% Haircut Of Senior Creditors In First “Bail In” Under New European Rules Just over a year ago, a black swan landed in the middle of Europe, when in what was then dubbed a “Spectacular Development” In Austria, the “bad bank” of failed Hypo Alpe Adria – the Heta Asset Resolution AG […]

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A Desperate China Begged Fed For “Plunge Protection Playbook” As Its Market Crashed

March 21, 2016

A Desperate China Begged Fed For “Plunge Protection Playbook” As Its Market Crashed Last June, China’s stock market miracle ended in tears. The SHCOMP’s inexorable, parabolic ascent was to a large degree facilitated by an explosion of margin debt, the likes of which could not be found in any other major market across the globe. […]

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The Irony Of Market Manipulation

July 28, 2015

The Irony Of Market Manipulation Having gazed ominously at the extreme monetary policy smoke-and-mirrors intervention in bond markets, and previously explained that “the stock market is to important to leave to the vagaries of an actual market.“ While the rest of the world’s central banks’ direct (BoJ) and indirect (Fed, ECB) manipulation of equity markets, nobody bats an eyelid; but […]

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Futures Soar On Hope Central Planners Are Back In Control, China Rollercoaster Ends In The Red

July 28, 2015

Futures Soar On Hope Central Planners Are Back In Control, China Rollercoaster Ends In The Red For the first half an hour after China opened, things looked bleak: after opening down 5%, the Shanghai Composite staged a quick relief rally, then tumbled again. And then, just around 10pm Eastern, we saw acoordinated central bank intervention stepping […]

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Chinese Stocks Suffer Second Biggest Crash In History, 1,500 Companies Halted Limit Down

July 27, 2015

Chinese Stocks Suffer Second Biggest Crash In History, 1,500 Companies Halted Limit Down This was not supposed to happen. After pledging, investing and otherwise guaranteeing the Chinese stock market to the tune of 10% of GDP, and intervening on at least 40 different occasions in the past month ever since China’s stock bubble burst in late […]

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