Archive for 2020
It’s Happening Again… Investors Dump Everything ‘China’
Global stock markets plunged Friday as tensions between the US and China spiral out of control. Stocks in Hong Kong and mainland China tumbled after Beijing ordered Washington to cease all operations at its consulate in the city of Chengdu. This came days after Washington ordered the Chinese consulate in Houston, Texas, to close. Investors are becoming fearful the tit-for-tat spat between the US and China will…
Blain: Excess Liquidity Is “Blinding Idiots To Dangerous Reality”
Bubbles are far more dangerous when they are fueled by debt” “This time it’s different”, is one of the most dangerous beliefs in financial markets. This time, things are different – but for a reason. Global Central Banks have pumped liquidity into the financial system to support the global economy as it struggles with a…
WTI Holds Losses As US Distillates Stocks Reach 38-Year Highs
Oil prices are lower overnight after a surprisingly large crude inventory build reported by API. The energy complex was not helped by comments by President Trump that the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. will probably worsen before improving. “Everything seemed to rise in the commodity world yesterday as part of the reflation trade,” said Giovanni Staunovo, an analyst at UBS…
Banks Brace For A Historic Crash With Record Loss Provisions
For many years after the financial crisis, US commercial banks were mocked when instead of generating earnings the old-fashioned way, by collecting the interest arb on loans they had made, or even by frontrunning the Fed with their prop (and flow) trading desks, they would “earn” their way to just above consensus estimates by releasing…
Another Iconic Deflationist Capitulates: According To Russell Napier, “Control Of Money Supply Has Permanently Left The Hands Of Central Bankers
One by one the world’s legendary deflationists are taking one look at the following chart of the global money supply (as shown most recently by DB’s Jim Reid) and after seeing the clear determination of central banks to spark a global inflationary conflagration, are quietly (and not so quietly) capitulating. One month ago it was SocGen’s Albert…
Doug Casey On COVID Brainwashing: “Look, Hysteria Is The Problem; Not The Flu Itself”
Recently, gold bug and investor Doug Casey sat down with Kenneth Ameduri of Crush the Street. Casey jumped right in saying the breakdown of the United States under the boot of tyranny is “actually predictable.” Casey says Western civilization peaked around World War 1, just after the Federal Reserve took over the monetary supply. Yet at…
Rabobank: “Markets Are, Across The Board, Totally Divorced From Reality. Facts No Longer Matter”
Make It So! Back in the 1980s, there was a lot of discussion at my college about “post-modernism”. At that point, it was in a strictly cultural sphere. It meant different things to different people, but I personally found enlightenment in the example of Jean-Luc Picard, captain of the starship Enterprise. To be “post-modern”, I…
How Deutsche Bank Helped Con The Public Into Believing In Wirecard
By Tyler Durden More reporting on the Wirecard situation has emerged over the long weekend in the US, and none of it is flattering. As a court-appointed administrator begins the process of managing what’s left of Wirecard through the insolvency process, while doing the best the government can compensate shareholders who were deceived by the onetime fintech…
USDA Crop Report Shocker Sends Corn Futures Surging
Chicago corn futures surged 8% in the last two sessions after a massive reduction to the U.S. government’s acreage estimate reported Reuters. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) crop report on Tuesday showed farmers planted 92 million acres of corn in 1H20, which was a huge miss in expectations and 5 million acres below the USDA’s March forecast of 97 million acres.…
“Red Flags Galore”: Companies Sold A Mindblowing $113 Billion In Stock In Q2
When it comes to bearish market flow red flags, aggressive selling of stock by corporate insiders is traditionally viewed as the biggest red flag – after all, nobody knows the prospects for their companies better than the people who run them – followed closely by companies selling stock. The logic is simple: why sell today…