Posts Tagged ‘Stock Markets Crash’
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…
Read MoreAmerica’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…
Read MoreRonin Capital Blows Up, Unable To Meet CME Capital Requirements After VIX Trade Goes Wrong
We have certainly had our share of dismal fund returns in the past two weeks, in the aftermath of a market crash that is now worse than the Great Depression, so far one thing was missing: a big blow-up, where a fund is margined out and forced to liquidate Friday morning. Think “Duke & Duke.“ Well,…
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