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….
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…
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…
Ronin 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…