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Margin Call: You Were Warned Of The Risk
Margin Call: You Were Warned Of The Risk I have been slammed with emails over the last couple of days asking the following questions: “What just happened to my bonds?” “What happened to my gold position, shouldn’t it be going up?” “Why are all my stocks being flushed at the same time?” As noted by Zerohedge: […]
Black Thursday: “One Giant Margin Call” Drags Dow Down 10%
Black Thursday: “One Giant Margin Call” Drags Dow Down 10% “The fact that Treasuries, munis, and gold are getting hit tells me that everything is for sale right now. One giant margin call where even the safe-havens aren’t safe anymore. Except for cash.” The Fed unveiled an unprecedented liquidity facility to rescue malfunction Treasury markets from themselves.. but it […]
Japanese Bond Crash, Margin Call Sends Shockwaves Around The Globe
Japanese Bond Crash, Margin Call Sends Shockwaves Around The Globe For a dramatic preview of what will happen in a flash to all those record low interest rates without the backstop of central banks and ravenous pension fund, look no further than what happened in Japan overnight, where bond futures suffered the biggest one-day crash […]
Forecast 2019: Ding Ding ! Margin Call USA
Forecast 2019: Ding Ding ! Margin Call USA Welcome to the American hall of mirrors… and mind the broken glass all over the floor. That’s Nature’s way of saying the country has run out room to punk itself. 2018 was the consolidation of bad faith in everything we do: politics, the news media, economics & […]
Chinese Verbal Intervention In The Market Fails As Stock Rout Accelerates
Chinese Verbal Intervention In The Market Fails As Stock Rout Accelerates This morning, when we reported that the latest flood of margin calls, resulting from $600 billion in shares pledged as collateral for loans and representing a whopping 11% of China’s market cap, sent the Shanghai Composite tumbling 3% to the lowest level since November […]
Margin Call: Burst Of Sell Orders At 2:43PM Was Highest Since The Flash Crash
Margin Call: Burst Of Sell Orders At 2:43PM Was Highest Since The Flash Crash Earlier today, when looking at yesterday’s dramatic market plunge, we highlighted a note from BMO technical analyst Russ Visch who showed that, according go the NYSE “ARMS” Index which is a means of determining market strength or weakness by analyzing the […]
Stocks Drop As Trade War Returns; Japanese Bond Rout Leads To Emergency Margin Call
Stocks Drop As Trade War Returns; Japanese Bond Rout Leads To Emergency Margin Call The latest trade war truce lasted less than a day, and after stocks jumped yesterday following an early report that Mnuchin had resumed trade talks with his Chinese counterpart, a late Tuesday report that the Trump admin is planning to increase […]
China Threatened By “Vicious Circle Of Panic Selling” From Marketwide Margin Call
China Threatened By “Vicious Circle Of Panic Selling” From Marketwide Margin Call Two weeks ago, when commenting on the PBOC’s latest required reserve ratio cut, we pointed out that one of the more prominent risks facing the Chinese stock market, and potentially explaining why the Shanghai Composite simply can’t catch a bid during the recent […]
Collapsing CDS Market Will Lead To Global Bond Market Margin Call
Collapsing CDS Market Will Lead To Global Bond Market Margin Call As Zero Hedge previously noted, liquidity is there when you don’t need it, and it promptly disappears once it is in demand. Consider it “cocktease capitalism.” If liquidity lasts longer than 4 hours, call the CFTC because you may be experiencing a spoof. Right now, the ultimate spoof […]
Steen Jakobsen: Get Ready For The Biggest Margin Call In History
Steen Jakobsen: Get Ready For The Biggest Margin Call In History A recommendation to move to cash Economist Steen Jakobsen, Chief Investment Officer of Saxo Bank, believes 2015 will be another “lost year” for the economy. And he predicts the Federal Reserve will indeed start to raise rates later this year, surprising the market and […]
The Global Dollar Funding Shortage Is Back With A Vengeance And “This Time It’s Different”
The Global Dollar Funding Shortage Is Back With A Vengeance And “This Time It’s Different” The last time the world was sliding into a US dollar shortage as rapidly as it is right now, was following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. The response by the Fed: the issuance of an unprecedented amount of […]



