The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada Deflate by Wolf Richter • Apr 12, 2019 • 109 Comments How do they measure up against the most splendid housing bubbles in the USA? Oops!
Whole Foods’ Existential Threat? by John McNellis • Apr 12, 2019 • 108 Comments “Amazon’s plunge into the $800 billion US grocery industry posed an existential threat to rivals”: CNN, August 2018. So let’s see.
Uber Discloses 3-Yr $10-Billion Loss from Operations, Stalling Rideshare Revenue & 50 Pages of “Risk Factors” that Are Not for the Squeamish by Wolf Richter • Apr 11, 2019 • 89 Comments But it had big tax benefits & one-time gains. And Uber Eats is hot, so to speak.
Big Old Problem Just Re-Erupted on Eurozone’s Southern Flank by Don Quijones • Apr 11, 2019 • 54 Comments Italy’s fiscal health is once again in serious decline.
Carmageddon at Tesla-Panasonic Gigafactory in Nevada and Shanghai by Wolf Richter • Apr 11, 2019 • 118 Comments Expansion & investment plans frozen, after deliveries of Teslas plunged in Q1
My Fancy-Schmancy “Fed Hawk-o-Meter” Jumps 18%, “Patient” Gets Slashed, “Moderated” Disappears by Wolf Richter • Apr 10, 2019 • 62 Comments What’s the Fed Trying to Say?
How Big or Tiny of an Apartment Can the Median Household Income Afford to Rent in the 100 Largest US Cities? by Wolf Richter • Apr 10, 2019 • 72 Comments In some cities, you get what is considered a walk-in closet of a McMansion.
This is How Stocks Get Hit When BBB-Rated Companies Try to Dodge a Downgrade to “Junk” by Wolf Richter • Apr 9, 2019 • 51 Comments There are now many of them. Shoring up the balance sheet is the opposite of “shareholder friendly.” It’s “creditor friendly.”
UK-Based Multinational Department Store Debenhams Collapses, After 200 Years of Trading by Don Quijones • Apr 9, 2019 • 50 Comments “The traditional private equity model should have no place in retail.”
What Would Stocks Do in “a World Without Buybacks,” Goldman Asks by Wolf Richter • Apr 8, 2019 • 104 Comments Companies buying back their own shares has “consistently been the largest source of US equity demand.” Without them, “demand for shares would fall dramatically.” Too painful to even imagine.