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Asian Stocks Advance as Oil Holds Near $40; Aussie, Kiwi Climb
April 19th, 2016
Korean won climbs to five-month high as gold declines Japan’s Topix jumps by most in a month as yen weakens Asian equities jumped by the most in a month as crude oil stayed within sight of $40 a barrel, ...
Vladimir Putin Starts His Own Ratings Firm
March 18th, 2016
Moody’s, Fitch forced to stop national ratings under new rules Kremlin had condemned barrage of downgrades as political Vladimir Putin’s homegrown credit-ratings firm is up and running and foreign competitors are already feeling the heat. In the past three ...
The Rats Keep Pressing The Bar: Two Amazing Stories, One Inevitable Result
March 17th, 2016
Anyone who doubts that the global financial system has run out of (good new) ideas has only to track the recent words and deeds of central bankers and mainstream economists: Slightly-negative interest rates didn’t lead people to borrow more? ...
BlackRock hedge fund sees worst start
February 16th, 2016
Bloomberg News reports that the flagship $1.9bn Obsidian fund fell 4% in January after failing to anticipate “the extent to which markets would trade in lockstep with commodities,” according to an investor update, a copy of which was obtained by ...
Shares Jump From Europe to Japan as Oil Holds Rally; Yuan Soars
February 16th, 2016
Absence of post-holiday China selloff bolstered sentiment Draghi said ECB will act should turmoil hit price stability Stocks came back with a vengeance amid speculation losses that sent global equities into a bear market had gone too far, with ...
Bear Market Descends on Global Stocks
February 12th, 2016
The MSCI All-World Index falls 20% from its May 2015 record Retreat is biggest since selloff during 2011 Europe crisis The yearlong decline in global equities that started with a selloff in energy became a full-blown bear market Thursday ...
Goldman Sachs Abandons Five of Six ‘Top Trade’ Calls for 2016
February 11th, 2016
New York bank closes bet on dollar strength versus euro, yen Divergent-rates policy still favors greenback, Himmelberg says Goldman Sachs to clients: whoops. Just six weeks into 2016, the New York-based bank has abandoned five of six recommended top trades for the ...
Day Of Reckoning: The Collapse Of The Too Big To Fail Banks In Europe Is Here
February 11th, 2016
There is so much chaos going on that I don’t even know where to start. For a very long time I have been warning my readers that a major banking collapse was coming to Europe, and now it is ...
Europe Stocks at Recession Prices Show Growth Faith Falters
February 9th, 2016
Euro Stoxx 50 had its largest two-day slump since August Shares now trade at biggest discount in a year vs U.S. stocks For European investors trying to assess just how bad sentiment is right now, consider this: the last ...
Oil Prices Could Jump 50% by the End of 2016
February 3rd, 2016
WTI seen averaging near $46 a barrel in Q4; Brent at about $48 U.S. sees domestic oil output falling by 620,000 barrels a day Oil bulls distressed that last week’s rally fizzled can find some comfort in forecasts for ...
