Liquidity Crisis at Woodford Equity Fund Is Symptomatic of Systemic Problem, Bank of England Warns by Nick Corbishley • Jul 12, 2019 • 29 Comments $30 trillion of assets globally are held by similar open-ended funds.
Negative-Yielding Junk Bonds Have Arrived in Europe by Wolf Richter • Jul 9, 2019 • 91 Comments NIRP is systematically rotting out basic brain functionality.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: After All This Money Printing, Where’s the Huge Inflation? by Wolf Richter • Jul 7, 2019 • 113 Comments Oh, it’s here alright.
Bank of Japan Stealth-Tapers Further by Wolf Richter • Jul 2, 2019 • 48 Comments Bank stocks crushed by negative interest rates, broader market goes nowhere in 4 years despite BOJ’s equity purchases.
And the US Dollar’s Status as Global Reserve Currency? by Wolf Richter • Jul 1, 2019 • 72 Comments Apocalypse not now.
Turkish Financial Crisis Hammers Home Sales & Mortgages by Don Quijones • Jun 21, 2019 • 17 Comments Sales of homes of all types plunged 31% year-on-year, sales of new homes crashed 39%, and the number of mortgages written collapsed 65%
No, Rate Cuts Were Not Discussed: ECB Insiders Out Draghi as Fabricator & Schemer, and Talk to Reuters by Wolf Richter • Jun 18, 2019 • 58 Comments Draghi’s shenanigans get hilarious, just months before his term ends.
Bad Loans Still Too High at Eurozone Banks, ECB Warns by Don Quijones • Jun 17, 2019 • 44 Comments NPLs remain dangerously to catastrophically high in Italy, Greece, Portugal, and Cyprus.
Inspired by Deutsche Bank Death Spiral, European Banks Sink to Dec 24, 2018 Level – First Seen in 1995 by Wolf Richter • Jun 15, 2019 • 73 Comments The benefit of NIRP: There’s hell to pay – even the ECB admits it.
Deutsche Bank Death Spiral Hits Historic Low. European Banks Get Re-Hammered by Wolf Richter • May 20, 2019 • 50 Comments Just bumping along the bottom, from hopeless to hope and back to hopeless.
