Companies & Markets

Stocks Crashed. I Covered My Short Positions (SPY, QQQ) Because “Nothing Goes to Heck in a Straight Line.” Out of Spite, Bought Some Crap for a Bear-Market Bounce

by Wolf Richter • Mar 12, 2020 • 161 Comments

Holy moly, that’s fast. Too fast. Desperate Fed rolls out biggest bazooka yet.

First Enron of 2020: Muddy Waters’ Short-Target NMC Health Just “Discovered” $2.7 Billion Undisclosed Debt

by Nick Corbishley • Mar 12, 2020 • 48 Comments

Oops, the rot runs even deeper than Muddy Waters could have imagined.

Boeing Crashes: $43 Billion in Share Buybacks Turn into Existential Threat

by Wolf Richter • Mar 11, 2020 • 191 Comments

Of immediate concern is how much cash Boeing is burning due to the 737 MAX fiasco and now the coronavirus, and how much cash it can pile up to avoid a liquidity crisis.

My Conversation with MarketWatch About my Hair-Raising Contrarian Short Positions Taken Out (and Published) on Dec 30 During Peak Market Euphoria

by Wolf Richter • Mar 11, 2020 • 81 Comments

“I’m a little worried that this could cascade.”

The Collapse of Pot Stocks: Refreshingly, Not COVID-19’s Fault

by Wolf Richter • Mar 10, 2020 • 137 Comments

Hard to feel sorry for the victims of these hilariously obvious pump-and-dump schemes, but they sure got their pockets cleaned out.

European Bank Stocks Collapse to March 2009 & 1988 Levels

by Nick Corbishley • Mar 10, 2020 • 64 Comments

Just how much lower can they go? To Zero. And the ECB’s negative interest rates are driving them closer to it.

The Great American Shale-Oil Bust Turns into Massacre

by Wolf Richter • Mar 9, 2020 • 175 Comments

Shares of shale oil drillers collapsed by 25%-50% today. Their bonds got massacred. Saudi-Russia price-war strategy appears successful in wiping out investors in the US shale-oil sector.

We Anticipate a Period of Severe Market Turbulence that Will Create New Opportunities for Patient Investors

by Karen Parker Feld • Mar 9, 2020 • 164 Comments

It’s the combination of disease attributes and systemic fragility that makes the situation so dangerous, yet difficult for most people to comprehend.

Good Morning America, All Heck Broke Loose in the Markets Overnight

by Wolf Richter • Mar 8, 2020 • 219 Comments

Crude Oil Collapses 32%, US Stock Futures Plunge nearly 5%, 10-year Treasury Yield Gets Closer to 0%, Gold Jumps to $1,700, Asian Stocks Plunge, Nikkei -6%.

It’s Crazy in the Treasury Market, But the Corporate Bond Market is Starting to Dial in the Coronavirus

by Wolf Richter • Mar 8, 2020 • 80 Comments

Airline bonds, holy moly.

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