by Don Quijones • • Comments Off on Gotham City Takes Down Spanish Joker
Gowex was one of the most recommended stocks in Spain, including among the biggest banks. But under attack by a short-seller, it jumped from denial to confession and collapse in five short days, exposing just how well Spain’s regulators function.
by Wolf Richter • • Comments Off on ‘It’s Like We Have Developed An Inability To Even See Risks’
My convo with a wealth manager at a megabank who’s been at it for 30 years, has seen three crashes while on the job, but unlike others in finance, hasn’t re-forgotten the lessons for the third time.
by Wolf Richter • • Comments Off on Google Glass Hacked, Can Record Everything You Stare At
You don’t need to break a code; you don’t need to capture a server. “Hardcore hackers wouldn’t even bother with it,” says one of the hackers. “They’d find access too easy.”
by Wolf Richter • • Comments Off on Just How Crazy Is The Biggest Credit Bubble in History? See The Doomed Muni Tobacco Bonds In Your Conservative Bond Fund
Ah, the spine-tingling pleasures of having this delicious breed of bonds in your conservative-sounding bond fund.
by David Stockman • • Comments Off on The Crony Capitalist Corruption At GM
GM blamed a low-level engineer for its ignition switch fiasco. That doesn’t even merit an “oh puleese!” I speak from personal experience: I owned a supplier that was smashed to smithereens by GM’s engineering and purchasing bureaucracy.
by David Stockman • • Comments Off on Canary In A Handbag: Why Coach Hit The Skids
Coach just had an earnings fiasco. Sales plunged 21%. Prospects are worse for the period ahead. Store closings are coming. That’s the payoff for playing the destructive game of the Wall Street casino.
by Wolf Richter • • Comments Off on Last Time Corporate America Did This, The Stock Market Crashed
So what happens when these huge and reckless buyers with their nearly endless resources start cutting back after a phenomenal peak? Well, we know what happened in 2008.
by Oilprice.com • • Comments Off on In Search Of Russia’s Lost Fracking Boom
Gazprom’s mega-deal with China sent shockwaves around the world. But Gazprom might not be able to honor the deal if shale reserves are not tapped soon. And that might not happen because capitalism à la russe is a harsh mistress.
by Wolf Richter • • Comments Off on Last Time this happened, The Financial Crisis Broke Out
There comes a time when risk just disappears, when nothing can go wrong, when there are no dark clouds on the horizon. The Fed has a measure for it: the Financial Stress Index.
by Wolf Richter • • Comments Off on Selling Your European Stocks Before Everyone Sees This Chart?
The European economy has been on a phenomenal roll since 2012, according to the soaring Stoxx 600 stock index. Recessions, unemployment fiascos, toppling banks, collapsing auto sales… they didn’t exist. But what the heck is wrong with this picture?
