I Didn’t Think it Would Go This Fast: Mortgage Rates Blamed for 3-Year Low in Pending Home Sales by Wolf Richter • Feb 28, 2018 • 68 Comments But it just started. Could it be the new tax law and sky-high home prices?
Powell Joins Four-Rate-Hikes-in-2018 Chorus, Markets Tank by Wolf Richter • Feb 27, 2018 • 83 Comments Markets are still in denial about the increasingly hawkish Fed.
Stock Market Leverage Spikes. Sparks Already Flew. Brokerage Regulator “Concerned.” But Hey, Nothing’s Going to Happen. by Wolf Richter • Feb 26, 2018 • 67 Comments Resting Happily on Smoldering Powder Keg.
In Search of 3%: The 10-Year Treasury Buffeted by Short Positions and Demand by Wolf Richter • Feb 26, 2018 • 26 Comments Hedge funds pare back bearish bets “by most since November.”
Why Buffett Pulled Back: Companies Overvalued after “Purchasing Frenzy” Fueled by “Cheap Debt” by Wolf Richter • Feb 25, 2018 • 61 Comments And why his “recent drought of acquisitions” is likely to continue.
Return of Enron to the Energy Sector? by Leonard Hyman and Willian Tilles • Feb 23, 2018 • 13 Comments The lure of forever-cheap money. But now rates are going up.
What will Spiking Mortgage Rates, High Home Prices, & the New Tax Law Do to the Housing Market? by Wolf Richter • Feb 21, 2018 • 128 Comments Surging home prices have primed the housing market for this.
“Blockchain” Stocks Completely Disintegrate by Wolf Richter • Feb 18, 2018 • 63 Comments Black Friday for them. Meet the OTC’s “skull and crossbones.”
What’s Going on with Stocks, Gold, Silver, Oil, and Mortgages? by Wolf Richter • Feb 18, 2018 • 26 Comments Was the selloff in stocks just a brief correction, or a sign of greater significance?
“Financial Stress” Spikes. Markets, Long in Denial, Suddenly Grapple with New Era by Wolf Richter • Feb 15, 2018 • 22 Comments Fed’s monetary policy shift is finally taking hold. It just took a while.
