Bond Market Smells Inflation, Begins to React by Wolf Richter • Jan 14, 2018 • 64 Comments Inflation expectations now exceed the Fed’s target.
Kodak Directors Get Massive Stock Grants Day Before “Blockchain” Hype Caused Shares to Spike 300% by Wolf Richter • Jan 12, 2018 • 72 Comments Regulators remain soundly asleep.
Markets Still Blow Off the Fed, Dudley Gets Nervous, Fires Warning Shot by Wolf Richter • Jan 12, 2018 • 85 Comments In search of the elusive soft landing.
Walmart Suddenly Shutters Numerous Sam’s Clubs without Notice, 11,000 Jobs Impacted, Chaos Breaks out on Twitter by Wolf Richter • Jan 11, 2018 • 91 Comments “This is how fly-by-night companies operate”
Fed Pays Banks $30 Billion for 2017 by Wolf Richter • Jan 10, 2018 • 78 Comments At taxpayer expense: easiest, risk-free, sit-on-your-ass profit ever.
China Threatens to Quit Buying US Treasuries, Cites “Trade Tensions” by Wolf Richter • Jan 10, 2018 • 83 Comments A financial shot before the bow of the White House.
Once Hot Seattle Apartment Market Hit by Onslaught of Supply by Wolf Richter • Jan 9, 2018 • 27 Comments Rents fall the most in the Amazon neighborhood, as new supply piles up.
SEC Halts Trading in my Biggest “Blockchain Stock” Hero by Wolf Richter • Jan 9, 2018 • 69 Comments 11 days after I lambasted the outfit. Billions went up in smoke already.
Chap. 11 Bankruptcies Spike 107% from Year Ago by Wolf Richter • Jan 8, 2018 • 32 Comments What caused the biggest jump since the Financial Crisis?
Retail Investors Finally “Up To Their Chest” in Stocks, Become True Believers with Record Exposure by Wolf Richter • Jan 8, 2018 • 68 Comments One of the “bigger fears”: dip buyers get burned, turn into sellers, “get an exponential move to the downside.”