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HSBC Lost $200 Million In One Day When The Gold Market Broke
HSBC Lost $200 Million In One Day When The Gold Market Broke Last week, we discovered precisely which bank got hammered by the violent divergence between the spot and future price of gold. As we reported, “HSBC had 15 “back-testing exceptions” in January and March, when the firm was caught out by moves in the prices of precious […]
Hong Kong Riots Reveal A Looming Crisis At The World’s 6th Largest Bank
Hong Kong Riots Reveal A Looming Crisis At The World’s 6th Largest Bank Earlier today, in addition to the chaos surrounding the escalation of the US-China trade and currency war, we also got news which slipped under the radar that the CEO of HSBC, one which with $2.6 trillion in assets is the largest UK bank and […]
Debt is back but this time its corporate
Debt is back but this time its corporate On Wednesday Feb 7th 2007 HSBC issued a profit warning. It was the first in its 142 year history. The bank told its share holders it would have to take an unprecedented charge of $10.5 billion because one of its units, its sub prime lender, was in […]
Mafia Expert Calls Great Britain the “Most Corrupt Place on Earth”
Mafia Expert Calls Great Britain the “Most Corrupt Place on Earth” The City is a semi-offshore state, a bit like the UK’s crown dependencies and overseas territories, tax havens legitimized by the Privy Council. Britain’s financial secrecy undermines the tax base while providing a conduit into the legal economy for gangsters, kleptocrats and drug barons. Even the more […]
Panama partners in crime
Panama partners in crime “We have broken no laws and cooperated with the government at all times.” Variations of that statement seem to be the default defence of everyone from bankers to politicians when their names come up in the Panama Papers. In the UK the latest to resort to some version of it, was first Downing […]
18 Numbers That Scream That A Crippling Global Recession Has Arrived
18 Numbers That Scream That A Crippling Global Recession Has Arrived The stock market has been soaring, but all of the hard economic numbers are telling us that a major global recession is here. This is so reminiscent of what happened back in 2008. Back then, all of the fundamentals were screaming “recession” by the […]
The US-Russia gas pipeline war in Syria could destabilise Putin
The US-Russia gas pipeline war in Syria could destabilise Putin Military solutions are not the answer to the perfect storm of climate, energy, food, economic and geopolitical crises facing Russia For the last few years, the Saudi kingdom’s insistence on pumping oil at high capacity has dramatically depressed oil prices. The result has undermined Saudi’s major oil […]
The Numbers Say That A Major Global Recession Has Already Begun
The Numbers Say That A Major Global Recession Has Already Begun The biggest bank in the western world has just come out and declared that the global economy is “already in a recession”. According to British banking giant HSBC, global trade is down 8.4 percent so far this year, and global GDP expressed in U.S. dollars is […]
Is Brazil About to Drag Down Spain’s Biggest Bank?
Is Brazil About to Drag Down Spain’s Biggest Bank? The timing could not have been worse. In July last year, an analyst working for Banco Santander Brasil did something he shouldn’t have. He warned the firm’s private banking clients about the economic risks posed by the reelection of Brazil’s scandal-tarnished president, Dilma Rousseff. Those risks […]
Something Just Snapped At The Comex (Updated)
Something Just Snapped At The Comex (Updated) Update: Earlier today, we said that we would “keep a close eye on today’s Comex update to see if JPM reverses this “adjustment” and adds at least a few more tons of deliverable gold to its vault.” Moments ago we got the daily update form the Comex and not only did JPM […]
The Seventh-Largest Economy in the World Spirals Down
The Seventh-Largest Economy in the World Spirals Down HSBC, which knows a thing or two about the world, and about Brazil, is bailing out of Brazil. It’s unloading its “entire business in Brazil,” it said this week, including retail banking and insurance. It will hand its long list of wealthy clients and over 21,000 employees to Bradesco, […]
