Trader Abandons European Stock Long, Admits "Too Busy Patting Myself On The...
Authored by Kevin Muir via The Macro Tourist,Like a bad parent who doesn’t love his kids equally, I have a confession. My infatuation with European stocks has stopped me from seeing clearly. For the...
View ArticleDeutsche Faces $60MM Derivative Loss For Inflation Bet Gone Bad
Just two months after Deutsche Bank was fined $165 million for not only still rigging FX when its currency traders were found to still be participating in banned chat boards, but for violating the...
View ArticleEuro Surges As Europe Stocks Slump; Yields Rise After Central Bankers Spook...
U.S. index futures point to a slightly higher open, as markets in both Europe and Asian fall.The EUR surges to one year highs as markets continue to reverberate from Draghi's hawkish comments while...
View ArticleDemolishing The Myths Behind The War On Cash
Authored by Ronald-Peter Stoferle via The Mises Institute,The attacks on physical cash from a phalanx of economists, central bankers, commercial banks, and politicians have not diminished in recent...
View ArticleEuro Surges, Yields And Stocks Rise As Central Banks Deliver Coordinated Message
The euro soared to the highest level in over a year while bond yields and global shares also climbed, as an ongoing barrage of coordinated hawkish comments from central banks signaled the era of easy...
View Article“The Discord Is Obvious" - Merkel Slams Trump Ahead Of G-20
Ahead of next week's G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, chancellor Merkel had some fiery words about her two least favorite topics: Donald Trump and Brexit. In a speech to lawmakers in Germany’s lower...
View ArticleBuy The F**king Value Stock Dip?
Thelast few days have seen the biggest outflows from S&P 'growth' ETFs on record, and as Deutsche Bank AG’s chief global strategist, Binky Chadha, notes the cheapest U.S. stocks relative to...
View ArticleDeutsche: The Market Broke In 2012, "This Is What Everyone Is Talking About"
Two weeks after Deutsche Bank’s whimsical, James Joycean derivatives strategist, Aleksandar Kocic disaggregated the market’s current sweeping complacency regime in a florid stream-of-consciousness...
View ArticleAbe's Party Suffers "Historic Defeat" In Tokyo Elections, USDJPY Slides
On Sunday Japanese PM Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party suffered what Reuters called a "historic defeat" in the Tokyo assembly election, losing to an upstart outfit in an vote that is seen as a...
View ArticleFrench Market Regulator Sees "Brutal Repricing Of Assets"; Valuations,...
High valuations and low volatility don’t reflect the level of economic growth nor the geopolitical uncertainty facing the market, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers says in a mid-year report on main...
View ArticleThe Reason Why Gold & Silver Have Frustrated Investors Since 2011
Authored by Steve St.Angelo via SRSroccoReport.com,The biggest frustration to many precious metals investors, is why have the gold and silver prices under-performed the market since 2011? Actually,...
View ArticleUnveiling the Silver in the LBMA London vaults
Submitted by Ronan Manly, BullionStar.com Sometime in the coming days, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) plans to begin reporting the amount of real physical gold and silver that is actually...
View ArticleBond Rout Fades With Futures Flat Ahead Of Payrolls; Pound, Yen, Oil Tumble
S&P futures are little changed following yesterday's rout even as Asian and European markets continued selling; the pound slid on poor factory data, the yen tumbled after the BOJ intervened to...
View ArticleSilver Prices Bounce Higher After Futures Manipulated 7% Lower In Minute
Silver Prices Bounce Higher After Futures Manipulated 7% Lower In Minute - Silver prices 'flash crash' before rebound- Silver hammered 7% lower in less than minute in Asian trading- Silver fell from...
View ArticleTestosterone And The Madness Of Central Bankers
Authored by Doug French via The Mises Institute,The stock market is at all-time highs. Argentina, a serial defaulter just sold $2.75 billion worth of debt with a 100-year maturity. Commercial real...
View ArticleVisualizing "Conundrum 2.0": This Is What The Fed Is Missing
While it may come as a surprise to the current crop of 17-year-old hedge fund managers, the current period of persistently low long-term interest rates and plunging, near reocrd volatility in the face...
View ArticleMacro Manager Massarce: "Financial Markets No Longer Make Sense"
Over the past several years we have repeatedly stated that despite protests to the contrary, the single biggest factor explaining the underperformance of the active community in general, and hedge...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank Warns "Markets Seem To Have Entered Frothy Territory (If Not...
Another day, another warning of market froth, only this time not from the (widely ignored) Federal Reserve, but from Mikihiro Matsuoka, chief economist at Deutsche Bank who in a note released on Monday...
View Article"... A Recession Has Always Followed": Is This The Real Reason The Fed Is...
"Why is the Fed so desperate to raise rates and tighten financial conditions? Why has the Fed shifted from a dovish to a hawkish bias?"That is the question on every trader's, analyst's and economist's...
View ArticleBond Selloff Returns As EM Fears Rise; Oil Slides; BOJ Does Not Intervene
U.S. index futures point slightly lower open. Asian shares rose while stocks in Europe fell as energy producers got caught in a downdraft in oil prices and reversed an earlier gain after Goldman...
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