THE WOLF STREET REPORT: How Even “Low” Interest Rates Screw Up the Economy by Wolf Richter • Aug 25, 2019 • 6 Comments Interest rates don’t have to be negative to make a mess in the era of “Secular Stagnation.”
World Trade Skids for First Time Since Financial Crisis by Wolf Richter • Aug 25, 2019 • 33 Comments Exports by China, Japan, and Eurozone under pressure — in part because of globally weak demand for new vehicles, which transcends the trade war.
Liquidity Crunch Mangles UK Equity & Real Estate Funds by Nick Corbishley • Aug 24, 2019 • 41 Comments Exodus from funds with illiquid assets forces funds to block redemptions.
Near-Record Low Mortgage Rates No Relief for Dropping New House Prices by Wolf Richter • Aug 23, 2019 • 138 Comments Last time was during the Financial Crisis. Now it’s happening in a kinder and gentler way, but there is no crisis.
Suddenly Leveraged Loan Issuance Gets Rough by Wolf Richter • Aug 22, 2019 • 62 Comments Fifth deal croaked in August. Moody’s has a cow over Ancestry.com’s deal. Deals had to be sweetened to find buyers. Retail investors bail out.
Repo Market Problems & Ballooning Inventories of Treasuries at Primary Dealers Make it into the Fed’s Minutes. My Fancy-Schmancy “Fed Hawk-o-Meter” Jumps by Wolf Richter • Aug 21, 2019 • 111 Comments Fed Warns about “Elevated” Asset Prices and High Business Leverage.
How Negative Interest Rates Screw Up the Economy by Wolf Richter • Aug 21, 2019 • 189 Comments Now they’re clamoring for this NIRP absurdity in the US. How will this end?
Canada’s Most Splendid Housing Bubbles, July Update by Wolf Richter • Aug 20, 2019 • 66 Comments Vancouver sags. Calgary, Edmonton down from many years ago. Toronto rises but below 2017 peak. Montreal, Ottawa hit new highs.
How the Ecommerce Boom Crushes “Mall Retailers” One by One by Wolf Richter • Aug 19, 2019 • 130 Comments The segments at the core of the Brick-and-Mortar Meltdown.
HSBC Runs into Buzzsaw in Hong Kong & China, its Home Market Generating 75% of its Profits by Nick Corbishley • Aug 19, 2019 • 24 Comments HSBC’s pleas of innocence have won little sympathy in Beijing.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: How Negative Interest Rates Screw Up the Economy by Wolf Richter • Aug 18, 2019 • 147 Comments Now they’re clamoring for the NIRP absurdity in the US. How will this end?
US National Debt Spiked $363 billion in Two Weeks, $1 Trillion in 12 months. But Who Bought This Pile of Treasury Securities? by Wolf Richter • Aug 17, 2019 • 94 Comments Nope, the Fed dumped. But there was huge demand elsewhere.
Freight Shipments Suffer Steepest Drops since Financial Crisis, Overcapacity Balloons by Wolf Richter • Aug 16, 2019 • 77 Comments For Trucking and Railroads, it’s Hangover Time.
It Starts: First Truck Maker Cuts Production by Wolf Richter • Aug 16, 2019 • 12 Comments Navistar confirms next phase in Transportation Recession.
Housing Bubble 2 in San Francisco Bay Area & Silicon Valley Pops Despite Startup Millionaires & Low Mortgage Rates by Wolf Richter • Aug 15, 2019 • 123 Comments House prices dropped again – and ironically the most in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
Argentina Crisis Slaps Foreign Banks & Companies Operating in the Country by Nick Corbishley • Aug 15, 2019 • 23 Comments Peso collapse and inflation force Spanish companies and banks — second largest investors in Argentina, behind US companies — to tally their losses.
In Hilarious IPO Filing, WeWork Dreams of $3 Trillion in Revenue But Has Billions in Losses. Red-Ink Massacre to Come in 2nd Half by Wolf Richter • Aug 14, 2019 • 145 Comments All in next-gen corporate speak to give you the warm & fuzzies. Meanwhile, Uber hits new low, down 24% from IPO price.
Fuel for the Next Mortgage Bust? by Wolf Richter • Aug 14, 2019 • 66 Comments Cash-out refi hype is back full-blast. And for the first time since early 2006, people are doing it in large numbers.
Subprime Auto Loans Blow Up, Delinquencies at 2009 Level, Biggest 12-Month Surge Since 2010 by Wolf Richter • Aug 13, 2019 • 99 Comments But these are the good times. Automakers are not amused.
Inflation Data Shows Tariffs Are Not a Tax on Consumers but on Foreign & US Corporations by Wolf Richter • Aug 13, 2019 • 70 Comments Here is where inflation runs hot – and it’s not imported consumer goods.
Brain-Dead Investors Get Crapped on Again by Argentina by Wolf Richter • Aug 12, 2019 • 109 Comments They had it coming.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Fuel for the Next Mortgage Bust? by Wolf Richter • Aug 11, 2019 • 130 Comments Here we go again: Cash-out refi hype is back full-blast, and for the first time since early 2006, people are doing it in large numbers
Why Have Global Semiconductor Sales Plunged & Gotten Stuck at These Levels for 5 Months Now? by Wolf Richter • Aug 10, 2019 • 79 Comments Today’s scenario is very unlike the plunge during the Financial Crisis, which blew over in no time.
Brick & Mortar Meltdown’s Ugly Week in Record-Ugly Year by Wolf Richter • Aug 9, 2019 • 113 Comments Store liquidations in 2019 have blown past the full-year total of 2018. The phenomenon is proceeding with relentless momentum.
One of World’s Construction Giants Admits Using Risky Hidden-Debt Loophole “Across Group.” Australian Subsidiary Crushed by Nick Corbishley • Aug 9, 2019 • 43 Comments This “crack cocaine for CFOs” was also extensively used by Carillion until it collapsed.
How Can a Company Lose $5.2 Billion on $3.2 Billion in Revenue? Uber Shows How by Wolf Richter • Aug 8, 2019 • 154 Comments And rideshare revenue is stagnating.
Is the Everything Bubble Ripe Yet? by Wolf Richter • Aug 8, 2019 • 110 Comments Suddenly – I mean the signs had been everywhere for a long time and “suddenly” doesn’t really apply – the whole house of cards came tumbling down.
The State of the American Debt Slaves, Q2 2019 by Wolf Richter • Aug 7, 2019 • 135 Comments The bifurcation among consumers.
Trade War Effect: Video-Game Console Makers Microsoft, Sony & Nintendo Prepare to Move Production out of China by Adam Williams • Aug 7, 2019 • 63 Comments The bottom lines in a very competitive business are threatened.
Financial World Gone Nuts: $15 Trillion Negative Yielding Debt by Wolf Richter • Aug 6, 2019 • 170 Comments 12 countries with negative 10-year yields. A race to hell.
