Oil-Bust Bloodletting: Projects Cancelled, Layoffs Ripple to Other Areas, Default Hits Private-Equity and Pension Funds by Wolf Richter • Jan 7, 2015 • 10 Comments The “most reliable profit driver” has “abruptly turned sour.”
Consumer Companies Issue Most Negative Guidance Ever, Despite Lower Gasoline Prices by Wolf Richter • Jan 6, 2015 • 16 Comments But the oil-price crash was supposed to goose consumer spending.
Oil-Bust Contagion Hits Hedge Funds, Supplier Layoffs Begin by Wolf Richter • Dec 30, 2014 • 8 Comments The toxic mix of financial engineering and an oil-price collapse.
How Asset Manager BlackRock Gave Me the Willies About 2015 by Wolf Richter • Dec 26, 2014 • 5 Comments “Financial instability” is a euphemism for “crash.”
Fight Breaks Out Over Your Absolutely-No-Privacy-Ever Car by Wolf Richter • Dec 24, 2014 • 8 Comments “We’re unwrapping the best holiday gift we could’ve imagined,” Google gushed. Automakers beg to differ. You’re not even asked.
So-Called ‘Dumb Money’ Flees Junk Debt. The Market Quakes by Wolf Richter • Dec 20, 2014 • 3 Comments Junk-bond funds hit by ‘market conditions’ as retail investors refuse to be sitting ducks.
Already Crummy US Economy Takes a Sudden Hit by Wolf Richter • Dec 18, 2014 • 14 Comments One heck of a downhill ride since June, culminating in a December dive. But this time, there is no polar vortex to blame.
What the Heck Just Transpired in the Global Markets? by Wolf Richter • Dec 14, 2014 • 8 Comments Stocks, junk bonds, oil, and the bitter whiff of international chaos.
Bloodletting in the American Oil Patch Has Only Just Begun by Oilprice.com • Dec 13, 2014 • Comments Off on Bloodletting in the American Oil Patch Has Only Just Begun An attribute of this oil market is its incredible ability to breed selling as it goes lower.
Google Strikes Back Against Spanish Newspaper Cartel by Don Quijones • Dec 12, 2014 • 1 Comment Spain tried to protect its mainstream media by attacking alternative websites and bloggers with a “Google tax.” Now Google has answered.
