Why a NYMEX Veteran is Getting Nervous about Oil by Wolf Richter • Feb 12, 2017 • 46 Comments Being long oil is a very “crowded trade,” but who’s on the other side of that trade, and what do they know that speculators don’t?
Global Shipping Meltdown Mauls German Banks, Retail Investors, Taxpayers by Wolf Richter • Feb 10, 2017 • 21 Comments Germany holds 25% of global shipping loans as industry collapses.
Foreign Governments Dump US Treasuries as Never Before, But Who the Heck is Buying Them? by Wolf Richter • Feb 9, 2017 • 44 Comments There’s now a special math for NIRP refugees in Europe.
Not Enough Americans Can Figure Out Why on Earth Use Twitter by Wolf Richter • Feb 9, 2017 • 55 Comments Even Trump’s Spectacular Tweets Don’t Help.
World’s Largest Container Carrier “Unexpectedly” Has Big Loss in Crushed Industry. Now Trade War with China Looms by Wolf Richter • Feb 8, 2017 • 26 Comments It “would have a very negative effect on our business”: Maersk CEO
What Would it Cost a Country to Leave the Euro? That’s What Everyone Suddenly Wants to Know by Wolf Richter • Feb 7, 2017 • 47 Comments It’s the closest the Eurozone has come to falling apart.
This Is How Out-Of-Whack US Trade Relationships Really Are by Wolf Richter • Feb 7, 2017 • 94 Comments After 25 years of apathy.
The Growth Industry in 2017? Debt Restructuring & Bankruptcy! by Wolf Richter • Feb 6, 2017 • 32 Comments What the experts of the “restructuring industry” see.
Why Corporate America Has Conniptions about Trump’s H-1B Visa Reform by Wolf Richter • Feb 6, 2017 • 170 Comments “This is now standard practice in the technology industry.”
Desperation Invades Vancouver Housing Bubble, as Hot Money Still Pumps up Toronto, Hype Overflows by Wolf Richter • Feb 5, 2017 • 43 Comments In Toronto, “home ownership continues to be a great investment,” which is what they said about Vancouver a year ago.