How a Small-ish Stock Market Swoon Might Unleash the Next Credit Nightmare by Wolf Richter • Sep 3, 2016 • 29 Comments The number of “weakest link” companies worst since October 2009.
QE, End of the Private Sector? Japanese Government Now Largest Shareholder of 474 Big Companies by Wolf Richter • Aug 29, 2016 • 27 Comments The two biggest buyers of Japan Inc. are flying blind and don’t care.
New Leak Confirms: Brussels Has Learnt Nothing from Brexit by Don Quijones • Aug 28, 2016 • 18 Comments Trying to tax the Internet.
Pemex Collapse Threatens Biggest Banks in Mexico by Don Quijones • Aug 26, 2016 • 34 Comments Big-oil bailout by taxpayers already under way.
Bank of Japan Prepares for Crash Triggered by Fed Tightening by Wolf Richter • Aug 26, 2016 • 36 Comments Building up a big pile of dry powder.
Did Moody’s Just Sever Energy Giant’s Last Life Line? by Don Quijones • Aug 25, 2016 • 9 Comments Out-of-money, felled by debt and shady accounting, Abengoa faces reality.
Toxic Mix in Fed’s Asset Bubble Nirvana: Hedge Funds on Track this Year for Second-Highest Redemptions in History! by Wolf Richter • Aug 25, 2016 • 10 Comments And what happened in 2009?
What the Heck Happened to Pokémon Go? by Wolf Richter • Aug 23, 2016 • 38 Comments The “augmented reality” hype just died.
“Mother of all Shorts” when Stocks Cave to Reality? by Wolf Richter • Aug 22, 2016 • 59 Comments “Everything feels distorted and unnatural”: Citigroup
New SEC Money-Market Fund Rules Forcing a Liquidity Squeeze? by Contributor • Aug 22, 2016 • 13 Comments Creating a situation worse than 2008?