Wolf Richter

Crude Steel Production: China Blows the Doors off Rest of the World During Pandemic After Already Huge Surge in 2019

by Wolf Richter • Jun 6, 2020 • 120 Comments

Never let a good crisis go to waste. US production, 4th in the world, plunged 32% in April. India’s production, normally in 2nd place, collapsed 64%.

Powered by Restaurants, Bars & Retailers, Jobs Bounce Off Bottom. Some Industries & Governments Continue to Shed Jobs

by Wolf Richter • Jun 5, 2020 • 171 Comments

The 20 industries with biggest job losses & the 20 with biggest gains. The unemployment rate would have been 16% if people had responded correctly, said the BLS; that would be 25.3 million unemployed. Abysmal.

Treasury Market Smells a Rat: Steepest Yield Curve Since 2017 Despite QE

by Wolf Richter • Jun 4, 2020 • 140 Comments

Market worrying about a phenomenon much worse than stagflation?

Week 11 of the U.S. Labor Market Collapse: Signs of Having Hit Bottom, Finally

by Wolf Richter • Jun 4, 2020 • 72 Comments

Gig workers now over 1/3 of “insured unemployed.” Gut-wrenching 1.6 million people got laid off in a week, others got their jobs back.

This is What Heavy-Truck Manufacturers Face After a 19-Month Order Collapse to Historic Lows

by Wolf Richter • Jun 3, 2020 • 52 Comments

“The recovery is expected to be slow and uneven. It has not started quite yet based on the weak Class 8 orders in May.”

CMBS Delinquency Rate Spikes by Most on Record

by Wolf Richter • Jun 2, 2020 • 87 Comments

Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities backed by hotel and mall properties get hit the hardest. Mall-REIT CBL failed to make bond interest payment yesterday.

Rents in the Most Expensive Cities Drop. Oil Patch Gets Hit Too. But Massive Gains in Other Cities

by Wolf Richter • Jun 1, 2020 • 129 Comments

Are the Work-from-Home-Folks Moving to Cheaper Pastures?

San Francisco, Epitome of the “Everything Bubble,” Faces Fiscal Chaos. Boom-and-Bust, Always. Now is the Bust

by Wolf Richter • May 31, 2020 • 170 Comments

“I’ve stopped defining worst-case scenarios because they keep getting worse every week”: San Francisco’s controller.

From Ice-Cold to Hot: Daily Pending Home Sales in May so Far, 15 Cities Around the US

by Wolf Richter • May 30, 2020 • 130 Comments

A near-real-time roller-coaster of home sales during the pandemic via charts.

After Decade of Retail Investors Getting Systematically Wiped Out, SEC & CFTC Investigate Oil ETF USO Investor Risk Disclosure

by Wolf Richter • May 30, 2020 • 88 Comments

What took them so long? And while they’re at it, they should also investigate US Natural Gas Fund UNG.

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