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Some Chinese Banks Suspend "Interbank Business" As Regulator Demands That...
With "risk" in most of the developed world seemingly a long forgotten four-letter word, as seen by today's plunge in the VIX to a level not seen since 1993, traders hoping for some "risk event" have...
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Summer of 17: LBMA Promises Publication of London Gold and Silver Vault Holdings
Submitted by Ronan Manly, BullionStar.comJust over a week ago I wrote an article highlighting that the Bank of England has begun publishing monthly data on the total quantity of gold bars held within...
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Global Markets Thrown For A Loop After Comey's Shocking Sacking
Just as the reflation trade appeared to be finding its latest wind, after a modest rise in oil prices over the past 24 hours (now that Andurand has finished liquidating his book) and a halt to the...
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Why Gold and FX Manipulation Cases Will Likely Lose
Writing from the road... Author Vince Lanci on marketslant.com We have written many times about manipulation in this column. We seek justice and fairness in the markets that we continue to consider...
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Macron Victory Unleashes Record Inflows Into European Equities
Two weeks ago we reported that European stocks had just enjoyed the biggest fund inflows since 2015, just as the continent appeared to have hit its economic peak...... and according to Deutsche Bank...
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What Do Rate Hikes Have To Do With Crashing Libor-OIS Spreads?
One of the more perplexing moves in recent weeks has been the rapid collapse in the Libor-OIS spread, traditionally a signal of bank credit risk, which has confused many rates traders due to...
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Deutsche Bank Sued For Running An "International Criminal Organization" In...
Having been accused, and found guilty, of rigging and manipulating virtually every possible asset class, perhaps it was inevitable that Deutsche Bank, currently on trial in Milan for helping Banca...
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Markets Face A Brutal "Margin Call" If Trump Loses Any More Credibility,...
It took the Fed several long years to discover just how reflexive and circular the relationship it had established with the stock market had become. The Fed's Catch-22 was first observed back in...
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Bank Of America: "These Markets Are Very Weird"
In the latest delightful note from serious "non-tinfoil" sources confirming just how broken the market has become (and how right all those who said central banking and HFT would eventually break it),...
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House Democrats Ask Deutsche Bank If Trump Accounts Have Russia Ties
In the aftermath of prior media reports that in the past Deutsche Bank provided hundreds of millions in loans to Trump, today Democratic lawmakers - looking for a smoking gun- asked Germany's largest...
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Global Rally Fizzles After "OPEC Shock" In "Slow Risk-Off Session"
S&P futures were fractionally lower from yesterday's record high as European stocks declined and Asian stocks were mixed, pressured by yesterday's 5% plunge in crude after OPEC unexpectedly "failed...
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Q1 GDP Revised To 1.2% On Stronger Spending, Capex, While Corporate Profits...
After a very disappointing first Q1 GDP print of only 0.7%, on Friday the BEA reported that its second estimate of first quarter growth showed a sizable rebound, with annualized GDP growing at 1.2%,...
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Visualizing The Possible City Of London 'Brexodus'
The EU in Brussels has now given official powers to its top Brexit negotiator, but former French diplomat Michel Barnier is not expected to begin talks until after the UK general election in June. As...
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Greek, Italian Risks Weigh On European, Global Markets; Oil, Gold Slide
Tuesday's session started off on the back foot, with the Euro first sliding on Draghi's dovish comments before Europarliament on Monday where he signaled no imminent change to ECB’s forward guidance...
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Deutsche Bank Downgrades European Banks To Underweight
In what some may find an amusing change in outlook by the bank that less than a year ago was on insolvency's door, its stock at record lows, this morning Deutsche Bank downgraded its peers, other...
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Paul Singer Warns "All Hell Will Break Loose"
It took Paul Singer's Elliott Management less than 24 hours to raise $5 billion earlier this month, however it is safe to say he won't be using any of that cash to buy stocks at current prices, or even...
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Quiet Month End Markets Hide "Below The Surface" Fireworks
It has been another quiet session for global equity markets, with S&P futures flat, as are European and Asian stocks, which is perhaps odd, as there was quite a bit of newsflow and, in the case of...
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Banks Tumble After BofA, JPM Warn Revenue Will Be Down As Much As 15%
The collapse in volatility is finally trickling up to the big banks.Moments ago, JPM CFO Marianne Lake speaking at a Deutsche Bank conference in New York, warned that contrary to expectations for an...
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Gold to benefit from Uncertainty thanks to Twitter and UK elections
Gold hits five-week highGold to benefit from Uncertainty thanks to Twitter and UK electionsReaches $1,273.74/oz, highest since April 25thSterling recovers after UK polls point towards a hung...
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Deutsche Bank Calculates The "Fair Value Of Gold" And The Answer Is...
Over the past three years, gold has found itself in an odd place: while it still remains the ultimate "safety" trade and store of value should everything go to hell following social and monetary...
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