Unlocked Shareholder Value, so to Speak: Job Cuts at Boeing to Reach 30,000. Commercial Airplane Revenue -56%. $5 Billion Go Up in Flames in Q3, $22 Billion since 737 Max Fiasco. by Wolf Richter • Oct 28, 2020 • 119 Comments $43 billion incinerated on Share Buybacks since 2012 to manipulate up the share price would come in handy now. Shares -60% since June 2019.
Americans Are Super-Gloomy About Holiday Spending, But Industry Ramps Up for Blockbuster Christmas by Wolf Richter • Oct 27, 2020 • 183 Comments Something is afoot here. And someone is going to be wrong.
Jingle Mail Haunts Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities as Property Values Get Slashed Below Loan Amounts by Wolf Richter • Oct 26, 2020 • 125 Comments At the time of securitization into CMBS a few years ago, inflated collateral values led to soothingly low loan-to-value ratios. Then trouble hit.
How Fast Can a “Shortage” of Office Space Turn into a “Glut?” San Francisco Shows How Fast by Wolf Richter • Oct 25, 2020 • 104 Comments Commercial real estate is in turmoil, but San Francisco’s glut is dwarfed by the fiascos in Houston and Calgary.
Housing Market Goes Nuts, Everyone Sees it, But it Can’t Last by Wolf Richter • Oct 23, 2020 • 307 Comments There’s a housing shortage until there’s suddenly a housing glut: see San Francisco et al.
Fed Assets Eke Out New Record for First Time Since June 10. But Repos, Dollar Liquidity Swaps, SPVs Mothballed by Wolf Richter • Oct 22, 2020 • 65 Comments Only Treasury securities and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) are still active.
Sorting through the Data Chaos in Unemployment Claims: Week 31 of U.S. Labor Market Collapse by Wolf Richter • Oct 22, 2020 • 59 Comments California Emerged from its “Reset.”
Down-to-Earth View of the “Recovery” in Near-Real Time, Eight Months into the Pandemic by Wolf Richter • Oct 21, 2020 • 112 Comments As seen by indicators that have sprung up as a result of the Pandemic.
“Creative Destruction” or Just “Destruction?” by Wolf Richter • Oct 21, 2020 • 119 Comments Under the effects of the Pandemic, consumers and businesses grapple with their own “Reset.”
Synchrony Financial Disclosed Radical Work-from-Home Plan, Layoffs, and “Office Footprint” Reduction by Wolf Richter • Oct 20, 2020 • 168 Comments Landlords and their lenders who’re still thinking work-from-home is just a blip will undergo a reckoning in due time.
