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Merkel Urges German CEOs To Hire Refugees
It's been a bad month for German chancellor Angela Merkel, whose approval ratings fell sharply last month, a ZDF poll showed on Friday, in the second sign of a voter backlash to her refugee policy...
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Insanity, Oddities, And Dark Clouds In Credit-Land
Submitted by Pater Tenebrarum via Acting-Man.com,Insanity RulesBond markets are certainly displaying a lot of enthusiasm at the moment– and it doesn’t matter which bonds one looks at, as the famous...
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Billionaire Crispin Odey, Who's Had A Pretty Terrible Year, Is Betting...
It has been a violently turbulent year for bearish British billionaire (actually, as of April, he is no longer a member of the three comma club), Crispin Odey, whose hedge fund has plunged 29.9% YTD,...
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18 Years Later - Pam Martens Sends Another Warning To The Fed & The Clintons
It is the same players that we saw enabling reckless behavior in 1998: Citigroup, the Fed, and the Clinton-led Wall Street Democrats. And, as Jesse notes, here we are again, almost eighteen years...
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A Stunning Admission From Deutsche Bank Why A Shock Is Needed To Collapse The...
In what may be some of the best, and most lucid, writing on everyone's favorite topic, namely "what happens next" in the evolution of the financial system, Deutsche Bank's Dominic Konstam, takes a look...
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Prominent "Up And Coming" Hedge Fund Exec, Sahm Adrangi, Busted For Hamptons...
One of the prominent "up and coming" managers in the hedge fund industry, which recently has been best known not for star names or outsized returns, but quite the contrary - lack of alpha creation and...
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With $128 Billion In Equity Outflows, Barclays Asks "Who's Buying Stocks" And...
It has been one of the greater paradoxes of the record S&P rally from the February lows: how has the market continued to rise even with unprecedented outflows? In other words, "Who's buying...
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Fed's Williams Calls For An Overhaul Of Monetary And Fiscal Policy... But...
Several months after St. Louis Fed president James Bullard infamously flipped from one of the Fed's most vocal hawks to the dovish equivalent of Kocherlakota, no longer expecting more than 1 rate hike...
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Why Interest Rates Can’t Go Much Lower, In Five Charts
Why Interest Rates Can’t Go Much Lower, In Five ChartsPosted with permission and written by John Rubino, Dollar Collapse (CLICK FOR ORIGINAL) Japan and Europe have been operating with negative...
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US Dollar Jumps As Hawkish Dudley Says "September Is Possible.. Market...
With the US Dollar and rate-hike odds tumbling, Fed's Dudley was sent into the arena to rescue the sentiment: Opining that "The Fed only raises rates when the economy is doing well," (apart from in Dec...
View ArticleFrontrunning: August 17
Futures flat ahead of Fed minutes (Reuters)Trump shakes up campaign staff (Reuters)Univision Wins Bankruptcy Auction for Gawker Media for $135 Million (WSJ)Congress receives FBI material on Hillary...
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Deutsche Bank Exec Suggests Scrapping Top Bonuses; Vows Bank Is "Better Than...
In another reminder that the turmoil shaking up Deutsche Bank is not limited to its stock price, but stretches as far as its top decisionmakers, overnight the bank's consumer banking chief and member...
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Your Complete, Last Minute FOMC Minutes Preview, And How To Trade Them
Over the past 24 hours, market action has been framed by speeches from two Fed officials heading into today’s FOMC minutes (from the Fed's July 26-27 meeting) release which may "reflect greater...
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Why A Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Turned Down A $8.25 Million Reward: In His...
At the height of the financial crisis, when risk assets were imploding and counterparties were in danger of overnight collapse, Deutsche Bank avoided failure and nationalization by fabricating the...
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Global Stocks Drop, US Futures Down As Dollar Rebound Halts Longest Oil Rally...
European, Asian stocks and S&P futures all fell in another quiet, low-volume early session. With oil entering a bull market yesterday (after sliding into a bear market just weeks ago), and set for...
View ArticleFrontrunning: August 19
European shares, oil ease as markets return to Fed-watching (Reuters)Brent crude slides, but on track for third week of gains (Reuters)Rio 2016: Lochte’s Teammates, USOC Join With Police in...
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"It's Gone" - Why Foreign Demand For US Treasuries Has Disappeared
Last week's TIC data confirmed something the Fed's Treasury custody account has indicated for the past several months: foreign demand for US government bonds has not only tumbled, but there has been...
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CLSA: "The Bank Of Japan Has Nationalized The Japanese Stock Market"
Following the recent announcement by the BOJ that it would double its ETF purchases to ¥6 trillion, or $58 billion, up from the current ¥3.3 trillion, which is the equivalent to the Fed purchasing $580...
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Robo-Testifying In a Nutshell: The Triumph of Expediency Over Due Process in...
Robo-Testifying In a Nutshell: The Triumph of Expediency Over Due Process in Foreclosure CasesWhat is a robo-testifier or robo-witness?A person with little or no prior banking experience hired by the...
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The First Victims Of The Libor Surge Have Emerged... In Japan
When we last looked at the blowout in US short-term funding rates, most notably Libor, which has been broadly attributed to regulatory reasons ahead of the October 14 money fund reform deadline, we...
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