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“Worst Since Lehman”: Banks Break The World Again
“Worst Since Lehman”: Banks Break The World Again Last week we detailed BofA’s Michael Hartnett’s warning that “The Fed will tighten until something breaks”. Well, something just broke… SVB’s collapse – the second biggest US bank failure in history – dominated any reaction to this morning’s mixed bag from the BLS (hotter than expected earnings growth, rising unemployment (especially […]
Ben Bernanke’s Waffle House
Ben Bernanke’s Waffle House Salvador Dali Spain 1936-38 Yes, it is hard to believe, but still happening: 10 years after Lehman the very same people who either directly caused the financial crisis of 2008 or made things much much worse in its aftermath, are not only ALL walking around freely and enjoying even better paid […]
First Post-Brexit Bailout Looms As Bank Of England Mulls UK Property Fund ‘Measures’
First Post-Brexit Bailout Looms As Bank Of England Mulls UK Property Fund ‘Measures’ Who could have seen that coming? While many have questioned the “suitability of daily-traded, open-ended property funds that are giving investors access to an illiquid asset,” all the time the price is rising, no one wants to rock the boat. However, now that Brexit […]
Charting The Epic Collapse Of The World’s Most Systemically Dangerous Bank
Charting The Epic Collapse Of The World’s Most Systemically Dangerous Bank It’s been almost 10 years in the making, but the fate of one of Europe’s most important financial institutions appears to be sealed. After a hard-hitting sequence of scandals, poor decisions, and unfortunate events,Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins notes that Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank shares are now down -48% on […]
Federal Regulators Accuse Banks Of Not Having Credible Crisis Plans, Would Need Another Bailout
Federal Regulators Accuse Banks Of Not Having Credible Crisis Plans, Would Need Another Bailout Perhaps the biggest farce to result from the Dodd-Frank legislation designed to “rein in” banks was the ridiculous notion of “living wills” – a concept that makes zero sense in an environment where the failure of even one bank assures a […]
Former IMF Chief Economist Admits Japan’s “Endgame” Scenario Is Now In Play
Former IMF Chief Economist Admits Japan’s “Endgame” Scenario Is Now In Play Back in October 2014, just after the BOJ drastically expanded its QE operation, we warned that the biggest risk facing the BOJ (and the ECB, and the Fed, and all other central banks actively soaking up securities from the open market) was a lack […]
Italy Seeks “Last Resort” Bailout Fund To “Ringfence” Troubled Banks, Meeting Monday
Italy Seeks “Last Resort” Bailout Fund To “Ringfence” Troubled Banks, Meeting Monday Italy’s finance minister, Pier Carlo Padoan, wants to “ringfence” its troubled banks. Padoan called a meeting of the executives of Italy’s troubled banks in Rome on Monday. The banks allegedly will come up with a “Last Resort” bailout fund. Last resort or first […]
Austria Just Announced A 54% Haircut Of Senior Creditors In First “Bail In” Under New European Rules
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 […]
In One Year The US Mining Industry Lost More Money Than It Made In The Prior Eight
In One Year The US Mining Industry Lost More Money Than It Made In The Prior Eight For anyone still looking for context to the biggest ever collapse in commodity prices in history, one far sharper and now longer than that in the deflationary aftermath of the Lehman failure, look no further than the chart […]
According To Morgan Stanley This Is The Biggest Threat To Deutsche Bank’s Survival
According To Morgan Stanley This Is The Biggest Threat To Deutsche Bank’s Survival Two weeks ago, on one of the slides in a Morgan Stanley presentation, we found something which we thought was quite disturbing. According to the bank’s head of EMEA research Huw van Steenis, while in Davos, he sat “next to someone in policy […]
Moments After Oil Crashes To 12 Year Lows, “OPEC Headline” Sends It Surging Again
Moments After Oil Crashes To 12 Year Lows, “OPEC Headline” Sends It Surging Again Seconds after Oil hit the lows and NYMEX closed – and S&P broke the critical 1812 level, this hit: *OPEC READY TO COOPERATE ON CUT, UAE ENERGY MIN SAYS: WSJ Here is the source: Summer Said ✔@summer_said OPEC is ready to […]
Deutsche Bank Is Scared: “What Needs To Be Done” In Its Own Words
Deutsche Bank Is Scared: “What Needs To Be Done” In Its Own Words It all started in mid/late 2014, when the first whispers of a Fed rate hike emerged, which in turn led to relentless increase in the value of the US dollar and the plunge in the price of oil and all commodities, unleashing […]
After Crashing, Deutsche Bank Is Forced To Issue Statement Defending Its Liquidity
After Crashing, Deutsche Bank Is Forced To Issue Statement Defending Its Liquidity The echoes of both Bear and Lehman are growing louder with every passing day. Just hours after Deutsche Bank stock crashed by 10% to levels not seen since the financial crisis, the German behemoth with over $50 trillion in gross notional derivative found […]
Global Trade Collapsed In January: Bellwether South Korea Exports Crash “Most Since Lehman”
Global Trade Collapsed In January: Bellwether South Korea Exports Crash “Most Since Lehman” As the first major exporting nation to report each month, all eyes and hopeful speculative capital was glued to tonight’s South Korean trade data. After a brief respite in November, December’s drop was worrisome, but January’s just reported 18.5% crash – the most […]
