Archive for February 2020
“Worst Thing In My Career” – US Stocks Suffer Fastest Collapse From Record Highs Since Great Depression
This didn’t age well… Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump Highest Stock Market In History, By Far!109K9:42 AM – Feb 19, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacy28.4K people are talking about this A sea of red… The Dow has collapsed from a record high into ‘correction’ in the space of just six days. As we detailed earlier, this is the…
Read MoreNo Financing And No Demand: Chinese Refiners Run Into Trouble
International banks are suspending credit lines for some independent oil refiners worried about the growing risk of defaults across industries because of the coronavirus epidemic, Reuters reports, citing industry sources… According to the sources, at least three private refiners, or teapots, have had credit lines to the tune of $600 million suspended by banks including French…
Read MoreThe World Has Gone Nuts High-Income Taxpayers Now Confronted At Home By IRS Agents
They perverted justice among themselves (v. 7): “You turn judgment to wormwood, that is, you make your administrations of justice bitter and nauseous, and highly displeasing both to God and man.’’ That fruit has become a weed, a weed in the garden; as nothing is more venerable, nothing more valuable, than justice duly administered, so…
Read MoreWill COVID-19 Lead To A Gold Standard?
Even before the coronavirus sprang upon an unprepared China the credit cycle was tipping the world into recession. The coronavirus makes an existing situation immeasurably worse, shutting down China and disrupting global supply chains to the point where large swathes of global production simply cease. The crisis is likely to be a wake-up call for complacent…
Read MoreCrashing Capital Markets and Banking Sector Bankruptcies, Followed by a Flood of Corporate Bankruptcies
Could the coronavirus act as a catalyst for a new global economic crisis? It certainly has that potential – but how would the crisis proceed? In the December 2018 issue of our Q-Review, we laid out the likely scenarios of an approaching global economic collapse. But, like most things in life, such a dramatic event is unlikely to proceed in a…
Read MoreDeutsche Bank, Donald Trump, And An Epic Trail Of Destruction
The Institutional Risk Analyst, we review the new book by David Enrich, “Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction.” Enrich is currently a financial editor at The New York Times and was previously an editor at The Wall Street Journal covering financial institutions. This important book puts in perspective the history of Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE:…
Read More“Tankers, Tankers. Everywhere!” – Virus Causes Historic’ Traffic Jam’ Across Asian Supply Lines
Covid-19’s effect on global energy markets has been disastrous. OPEC slashed its oil demand forecast last week, and Goldman Sachs doubled down on its bearish oil take and has cut its oil price target by $10 to $53 for the year, as a result of a “demand shock” that is set to collapse Chinese oil consumption by 20%, or…
Read MoreWill The Coronavirus Outbreak Cause A Massive Stock Market Crash?
Could it be possible that this coronavirus outbreak will be the trigger that finally bursts the biggest stock market bubble in U.S. history? As I have discussed previously, stock prices in the United States were the most overvalued that they have ever been during the month of January, and our stock market has never been more…
Read MoreThe Dilemma Facing China Is Truly Awful
As has been the case since Monday’s sell-off, there is an attempt to try to look on the bright side of the virus headlines. Chinese officials are spreading the word globally that things are under control and that other country should not be closing their borders to China, in line with the WHO recommendations that…
Read MoreCoronavirus Triggers “Biggest Shock” To Oil Markets Since Lehman Crisis
Update: The Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard warned that the collapse in Chinese oil consumption is “the biggest shock to oil markets since the Lehman crisis.” Evans-Pritchard said the plunge in consumption could be between three to four million barrels per day, adding that this amount is twice UK’s North Sea oil output. We noted earlier (see below), OPEC+ couldn’t come to…
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