Short-Term Treasury Market Walks Away from Rate-Cut Mania, Inflation Has Upper Hand by Wolf Richter • Mar 15, 2024 • 231 Comments One-year yield rose to 5.05% today, highest since December 12.
The Banks: “Unrealized Losses” in Q4, Securities Held by Banks, Bank Failures, and the Dropping Bank Count by Wolf Richter • Mar 10, 2024 • 129 Comments In 2024, some banks will fail. In 2023, five banks failed. In 1989, over 500 banks failed. Since 1936, there were only 5 years without bank failures.
More SPAC Humor: Astra Space Gets Bought by its Founders & Executives after Investors Got Almost Totally Wiped Out by Wolf Richter • Mar 7, 2024 • 73 Comments From $5.4 billion to $11 million in three years. To the moon, dude!
Nvidia, the WTF Chart of the Year. Tesla also Had WTF Charts of the Year before Shares Plunged by Wolf Richter • Feb 24, 2024 • 218 Comments Because these share prices are a state of mind. And when that state of mind changes – see Tesla.
We Have a Boom in Reverse Stock Splits to Keep the Ballooning Imploded Stocks Listed a While Longer: This Stuff is Just Funny by Wolf Richter • Feb 23, 2024 • 60 Comments Meanwhile, massive trading in hundreds of imploded stocks that still haven’t been delisted inflates overall market trading volume.
Even Banks in Asia-Pacific (APAC) on the Hook for US Office CRE: Fitch by Wolf Richter • Feb 12, 2024 • 64 Comments That’s what “spread far and wide” means. During the US CRE bubble, yield-chasers not just in the US but globally gorged on invincible US CRE.
Eyepopping Factory Construction Boom in the US: Chip Makers on Forefront, but CHIPS Act Funds Not Even Released Yet by Wolf Richter • Feb 3, 2024 • 83 Comments Supply-chain chaos, edgy US-China relations, and scary dependence on China triggered a rethink, now showing up as investments in manufacturing plants.
Despite Alphabet’s Layoffs at Google, Headcount Increased for Second Quarter in a Row. But the Huge Hiring Binge Is Over by Wolf Richter • Feb 1, 2024 • 47 Comments As Powell said, the labor market is rebalancing; it’s still tight, but it’s not out of whack anymore.
Did the $5-Billion Acquisition of Homebuilder MDC Holdings by Japan’s Sekisui House Mark the Top for Homebuilder Stocks after the Rate-Cut-Mania Rally? by Wolf Richter • Jan 24, 2024 • 29 Comments With uncanny precision?
D.R. Horton Sheds Some Light on the Massive Costs of Mortgage Rate Buydowns as a Hedge Went Awry. Stock Tanks by Wolf Richter • Jan 24, 2024 • 86 Comments The plunge in mortgage rates in Nov and Dec blew up the hedge for the rate buydowns: surprise cost on top of the regular costs of buydowns.
