China’s Stock Market Is in Free Fall 1/18/24

After a challenging couple of years for the Chinese economy, the country’s stock market appears to be in free fall, with officials urging institutional investors not to sell assets in an effort to keep share prices stable as foreigners withdraw. Chinese equities slumped on Monday as the central bank decided to hold its medium-term policy…

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Stocks Are Crashing, VIX Spikes As Option-Players Panic-Buy Protection

Trouble: VIX is back above 30… …and its put-buying not call-buying this time… The S&P is down over 3% and Nasdaq down 5%… As yields plunge back to 60bps (10Y)… Stocks catching down to bonds… Gold is also dropping… As the smell of liquidation is back. StevieRay HansenEditor, BankstersCrime Source: zerohedge.com God often uses men…

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America’s Coming Double Dip

www.zerohedge.com Soaring financial markets are blithely indifferent to lingering vulnerabilities in the US economy. But the impact of consumers’ fear of COVID-19 on pandemic-sensitive services are unlikely to subside, undermining the case for the uninterrupted recovery that investors seem to expect. The double dip is not a dance. It is the time-honored tendency of the US economy to…

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