Just How Wildly Exuberant is the Junk-Credit Market? by Wolf Richter • Sep 18, 2018 • 42 Comments This deal is “reminiscent of the kind of deal I would have seen in 2006 and 2007.” They’re still blowing off the Fed.
What Can Cause the Next Mortgage Crisis in the US? by Wolf Richter • Sep 16, 2018 • 96 Comments The soothingly low mortgage delinquency rate is a deceptive indicator: the New York Fed weighs in.
What Will These Mortgage Rates Do to Homeowners Trying to Refinance, Homebuyers, and Mortgage Lenders? by Wolf Richter • Sep 12, 2018 • 50 Comments Refinancing activity plunges to the lowest level since 2000.
Markets Increasingly Sure: 4 Rate Hikes in 2018 by Wolf Richter • Sep 10, 2018 • 40 Comments A distant possibility in early 2018 is making its way to reality.
As Musk Goes Nuts Publicly, Tesla Bondholders Get Antsy by Wolf Richter • Sep 5, 2018 • 139 Comments In terms of Tesla’s survival, this poses a problem.
These “Gradual” Rate Hikes Start to Add Up: US Treasury Yields up to Three Years Hit 10-Year Highs by Wolf Richter • Sep 5, 2018 • 53 Comments An entire generation on Wall Street has never seen Treasury yields this high.
7 Things that Did Not Happen to Tesla after the Friday-Night Deal-Massacre by Wolf Richter • Aug 27, 2018 • 71 Comments You’ve got to hand it to Musk.
US Yield-Curve Looks Hell-Bent on Inverting, “Flattest” Since Aug 2007 by Wolf Richter • Aug 26, 2018 • 62 Comments How does it compare to German, Japanese, and Chinese yield curves?
Introducing My New Fed Hawk-O-Meter by Wolf Richter • Aug 22, 2018 • 72 Comments It spikes 150% from year ago. Caveats apply. Grain of salt helpful.
Subprime Begins to Haunt Credit Card Balances by Wolf Richter • Aug 21, 2018 • 60 Comments Delinquencies soar past Financial-Crisis peak at the nearly 5,000 smaller US banks, and these are the good times. What’s going on?
