If This Plays Out, Friday Will Get Ugly by Wolf Richter • Mar 30, 2016 • 40 Comments A “Warning about March Nonfarm Payrolls”
Buy Gold & TIPS for Coming Volatility, Inflation: BlackRock by Wolf Richter • Mar 29, 2016 • 31 Comments “It’s too quiet out there.”
First Ocean Freight Rates Collapse to “Zero,” China Freight Index Plunges to Record Low, Bailouts Loom by Wolf Richter • Mar 28, 2016 • 26 Comments The next stage of “Moral Hazard?”
Atlanta Fed’s 1st-Quarter GDPNow Forecast Plunges by Wolf Richter • Mar 28, 2016 • 23 Comments Kisses the Rosy Scenario goodbye.
“Spike in Defaults”: Standard & Poor’s Gets Gloomy, Blames Fed by Wolf Richter • Mar 27, 2016 • 31 Comments “Hangover from years of lenient credit may become painful.”
World Trade Collapses in Dollars, Languishes in Volume by Wolf Richter • Mar 25, 2016 • 35 Comments This wasn’t part of the rosy scenario.
The Big Unwind Hits Investment Banking by Wolf Richter • Mar 24, 2016 • 15 Comments Everyone but China.
Desperate Chinese Investors Flood US, Canadian Housing Markets, But Real Numbers Are Taboo by Wolf Richter • Mar 24, 2016 • 56 Comments In Vancouver, 33% of sales are to Chinese investors (National Bank)
Bank Earnings Get Mauled by “Leveraged Loan” Time Bomb by Wolf Richter • Mar 23, 2016 • 17 Comments Distress ratio spikes to Financial Crisis level.