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‘Some EU Banks May Be Vulnerable’ – ECB Tells Ministers ‘No Room For Complcency’
‘Some EU Banks May Be Vulnerable’ – ECB Tells Ministers ‘No Room For Complcency’ The world was saved there briefly overnight after SNB’s giant liquidity shot into CS. But it didn’t take long fort reality to sink in about the band-aid-like nature of this facility. However, the situation under the hood may in fact be […]
Is the U.S. Banking System Safe?–15 Years Later
IS THE U.S. BANKING SYSTEM SAFE? – 15 YEARS LATER “We’ve got strong financial institutions…Our markets are the envy of the world. They’re resilient, they’re…innovative, they’re flexible. I think we move very quickly to address situations in this country, and, as I said, our financial institutions are strong.” – Henry Paulson – 3/16/08 “I have full confidence […]
Credit Suisse Craters To Record Low After Revealing Staggering $88 Billion Bank Run
Credit Suisse Craters To Record Low After Revealing Staggering $88 Billion Bank Run One month ago, weeks before the crypto sector was shaken by the crushing FTX bankrun which led to a quick and painful bankruptcy, and revealed that one of the world’s biggest crypto exchanges and its “JPMorgan-esque” owner were nothing but hollow shells […]
Sweden, Austria Start Bailing Out Energy Companies Triggering Europe’s “Minsky Moment”
Sweden, Austria Start Bailing Out Energy Companies Triggering Europe’s “Minsky Moment” Last weekend, Credit Suisse repo guru published what may have been the most insightful snippet of the entire European energy crisis (to date) when he extended the infamous “Minsky Moment” framework to Europe, and specifically Germany, which he said “can’t cover its payments without Russian gas […]
$17.5 Million In Revenue And $5.4 Billion In Losses: Archegos Was A 300x-Levered Time Bomb For Credit Suisse
$17.5 Million In Revenue And $5.4 Billion In Losses: Archegos Was A 300x-Levered Time Bomb For Credit Suisse A bank’s prime brokerage unit is supposed to be a safe, reliable and predictable generator of revenue, resulting from modest-margin transactions with a bank’s hedge fund client base. It’s safe because the bank’s risk managers scour the bank’s exposure to various […]
The $2.3 Quadrilliion Global Timebomb
THE $2.3 QUADRILLION GLOBAL TIMEBOMB Credit Suisse is hours from collapse and the consequences could be a systemic failure of the financial system. Disappointingly, my dream last night stopped there. So unfortunately I didn’t experience what actually happened. As I warned in last week’s article on Archegos and Credit Suisse, investment banks have created a timebomb […]
Archegos Implosion is a Sign of Massive Stock Market Leverage that Stays Hidden until it Blows Up and Hits the Banks
Archegos Implosion is a Sign of Massive Stock Market Leverage that Stays Hidden until it Blows Up and Hits the Banks Banks, as prime brokers and counterparties to the hedge fund, are eating multi-billion-dollar losses as they try to get out of these secretive stock derivative positions. The implosion of an undisclosed hedge fund, now […]
“Money’s Not Worth Anything Anymore” – Ex-Credit Suisse CEO Blasts “Crazy” Negative Rates
“Money’s Not Worth Anything Anymore” – Ex-Credit Suisse CEO Blasts “Crazy” Negative Rates Oswald Gruebel, who served as Credit Suisse CEO from 2004 to 2007 and as UBS Group AG’s top executive from 2009 to 2011, has slammed ECB policy in an interview with Swiss newspaper NZZ am Sonntag. “Negative interest rates are crazy. That means […]
Australia’s Economy Is A House Of Cards, Set For Sharp Downturn In 2019
Australia’s Economy Is A House Of Cards, Set For Sharp Downturn In 2019 Damien Boey, a research analyst at Credit Suisse, has warned that economic growth in Australia could slow quite sharply next year, raising the prospect that a slowdown could be immient. Boey expects the recent growth spurt driven by strong infrastructure investment, could fade in the first […]
Swiss Bank Freezes $5 Billion In Russian Money
Swiss Bank Freezes $5 Billion In Russian Money For years, Russian oligarchs and robber barons seeking to park their “unsourced” capital offshore and away from the sticky fingers of the Kremlin, treated Swiss bank accounts (preferably anonymous) with their “no questions asked” customer policies as, well, Swiss bank accounts. No more. One of Switzerland’s largest […]
The Richest 1% Will Own Two-Thirds Of Global Wealth By 2030, Report Finds
The Richest 1% Will Own Two-Thirds Of Global Wealth By 2030, Report Finds Back in November, Credit Suisse highlighted an alarming – yet altogether unsurprising – milestone in the increasing concentration of global wealth that has been perhaps the most influential force behind the populist revolts that rocked the US in 2016 and have continued […]
Never Go Full-Kuroda: NIRP Plus QE Will Be Contractionary Disaster In Japan, CS Warns
Never Go Full-Kuroda: NIRP Plus QE Will Be Contractionary Disaster In Japan, CS Warns In late January, when Haruhiko Kuroda took Japan into NIRP, he made it official. He was full-everything. Full-Krugman. Full-Keynes. Full-post-crisis-central-banker-retard. In fact, with the BoJ monetizing the entirety of JGB gross issuance as well as buying up more than half of all […]
Panic Below The Surface: “Banks Are Selling Energy Loans At Cents On The Dollar To Ensure Their Own Survival”
Panic Below The Surface: “Banks Are Selling Energy Loans At Cents On The Dollar To Ensure Their Own Survival” One week ago, when we commented on the latest weekly update from Credit Suisse’s very well hooked-in energy analyst James Wicklund, one particular phrase stuck out when looking at the upcoming contraction of Oil and Gas liquidity: “while […]
How The Rothschilds Made America Into Their Private Tax Fraud Backyard
How The Rothschilds Made America Into Their Private Tax Fraud Backyard Back in September 2012 we first presented “the world’s biggest hedge fund nobody had ever heard of”: a small, previously unknown company called Braeburn Capital which, however, managed more cash than even Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund. How had the little firm operating out […]
Chinese State Firms’ Debt Hits New All Time High, As Profits Tumble
Chinese State Firms’ Debt Hits New All Time High, As Profits Tumble Overnight China’s finance ministry reported the latest data on state-owned firms profitability. At a cumulative CNY 2.04 trillion (or $316 billion) for the January-November period, this was another nearly double digit decline, or -9.5% from the year ago period, following a -9.8% drop for the […]
