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.
QE Party Over, Bank of Japan Stealth-Tapers Further by Wolf Richter • May 11, 2019 • 54 Comments Straggler behind the Fed and the ECB gets the drift.
Perhaps It’s Time to Start Worrying About Global Corporate Debt, Suggests Bank of England by Don Quijones • May 8, 2019 • 18 Comments Chinese corporate defaults this year through April are 3.4 times the amount last year.
Vancouver Housing Bust Steepens, Bank of Canada Welcomes “Froth” Coming Off by Wolf Richter • May 6, 2019 • 46 Comments “It is their interaction with froth that matters most. How much a housing market adjusts depends on how much froth there is”: Poloz
Who Bought the Huge $1.26 Trillion of New US Government Debt over the Past 12 Months? by Wolf Richter • Apr 15, 2019 • 66 Comments There was strong appetite. Only the Fed shed them. Here’s who bought.
Update on the Spreading Housing Bust in Australia, and Why it’s Happening by Wolf Richter • Apr 2, 2019 • 48 Comments This bubble was not pricked by the central bank — on the contrary.
US Dollar Status as Global Reserve Currency Edges Down Further by Wolf Richter • Apr 1, 2019 • 83 Comments Is the euro dead yet? And how is the Chinese Renminbi doing?
Risks of Financial Instability “Appear to Be Elevated But Contained”: Australia’s Central Bank on Housing Bust by Wolf Richter • Mar 20, 2019 • 44 Comments Crackdown on lending shenanigans and bank misconduct plus an onslaught of new condos at worst possible time worry the RBA.