The Bilderberg 2017 Agenda: "The Trump Administration - A Progress Report"
Every year, the world's richest and most powerful business executives, bankers, media heads and politicians sit down in some luxurious and heavily guarded venue, and discuss how to shape the world in a...
View ArticleStocks Set For New All-Time Highs, Nikkei Rises Above 20,000, Oil Slides
The day after Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord, stocks are set for new all time highs with S&P futures up 0.2%, boosted by green markets across Europe and Asia, where the Nikkei rose...
View ArticleWhy trusting in the bigger picture gives you trust in gold
Trump pulls out of Paris Climate AccordWhy trusting in the bigger picture gives you trust in goldGold pauses ahead of non-farm payrolls dataIn Gold We Trust 2017 releasedReports on the ‘Everything...
View ArticleSpain's Sixth Largest Bank Crashes Most In 28 Years On Liquidation Fears
Even as attention has turned once again to Italy as the next possible source of European financial contagion, Spain's sixth largest bank has found itself in freefall over the past few days as concerns...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank Trader Admits To Rigging Precious Metals Markets
After months of "smoking guns" and conspiracy theory dismissals, a Singapore-based Deutsche Bank trader (at the center of fraud allegations) finally confirmed (by admitting guilt) what many have...
View ArticleThe US Jobs Market Is Much Worse Than The Official Data Suggest: The Full Story
Following Friday's disappointing payrolls report, yesterday we showed another even more troubling fact about the state of the US labor market: since 2008, over 93% of the total 6.7 million net jobs...
View ArticleGold stays strong following London Attacks
Gold Stays Strong Following London AttacksA summer evening on London Bridge and in Borough Market ended in terror on Saturday as attackers killed seven people and injured 48.This is the second...
View ArticleFrontrunning: June 5
Saudis, U.A.E., Bahrain and Egypt Cut Ties With Qatar (WSJ) Saudi-Led Alliance Cuts Ties With Qatar (BBG)Saudi, Egypt lead Arab states cutting Qatar ties, Iran blames Trump (Reuters); Qatar asks...
View ArticleThe Answer To El-Erian's Quandary: It's "A Perfect Storm" Melt Up
On Friday, Pimco's Mohamed El-Erian referenced one of our recent charts showing the dramatic divergence between Treasury yields and stocks, which he said "this (simple yet powerful) chart from...
View ArticleSpanish Banking Crisis Spreads As Banco Popular Credit Curve Inverts
Having told its employees "don't panic" over the weekend (at the crashing stock and bond prices of Spain's 6th largest bank), it appears investors are ignoring that message as Banco Popular's credit...
View ArticleExposing "The Legend" - How Traders 'Spoofed' The Precious Metals Markets
Following last week's admission by a former Deutsche Bank trader that he and many other traders conspired to manipulate the precious metals markets, court documents expose chat messages that show the...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank Needs More Time To Respond To Maxine Waters' Fishing Expedition...
Update: on Tuesday, Deutsche Bank said it had responded “promptly” to request from U.S. Democrats seeking information from the bank on its client relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump, a...
View ArticleDeposit Bail In Risk as Spanish Bank’s Stocks and Bonds Crash
Deposit Bail In Risk as Spanish Bank’s Stocks and Bonds Crash- Deposit bail in risk as stocks and bonds of Spanish bank - Banco Popular - crash- Banco Popular stock crashes most on record - down 63%...
View ArticleOne Bank Is Confused: The Fed's Rate Hikes Have Resulted In The Loosest...
In its latest weekly Economic Indicators Update, Goldman charts the ongoing paradoxical divergence between the Fed's professed tightening path and what is actually taking place in the US stock market,...
View ArticleBofA: "If Bonds Are Right, Stocks Will Drop Up To 20%"
Quickly skimming the front pages of the financial press in recent days reveals one recurring, and puzzling, story: the diverging and contradictory signals being sent by the bond (deflationary) and...
View ArticleUK General Election Preview: All You Need To Know
All you need to know about tomorrow's general election in the UK, broken down into several parts.From RanSquawk, Deutsche Bank, Lloyds, and WSJWhy has a Snap Election been called?On April 18th PM...
View Article"Nothing Else Matters": Central Banks Have Bought A Record $1.5 Trillion In...
One month ago, when observing the record low vol coupled with record high stock prices, we reported a stunning statistic: central banks have bought $1 trillion of financial assets just in the first...
View ArticleDeutsche Refuses To Disclose Trump's Private Account Info - Barrage Of MSM...
A few days ago we noted that DB allegedly requested more time to comply with a letter drafted by the infamous Maxine Waters of the House Financial Services Committee demanding information from on a...
View ArticleGoldman: "The Last Time The Market Acted Like This Was At The Tech Bubble Peak"
Yesterday's dramatic "rotational" divergence between tech stocks and the rest of the market, which as Sentiment Trader pointed out the only time in history when the Dow Jones closed at a new all time...
View ArticleChina's "Bubble Prophet" Sees Unprecedented Surge In Home Prices
Beijing's ability and eagerness, to create and roll from one bubble, whether it is in housing, equities, commodities, cars, bitcoin and so on, into the next has been extensively documented, however, of...
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