$10-Billion IPO of Leveraged Buyout Queen Flops, Investors Bleed by Wolf Richter • Jan 19, 2018 • 28 Comments But private equity firm Apollo makes $2.4 billion “on paper.”
Crypto Collapse Crushes Hedge Funds that Touted Huge Gains for 2017 by Wolf Richter • Jan 17, 2018 • 140 Comments Are they causing the rout by trying to get large sums out of an illiquid market?
Asset Class of Vintage Cars Drops More than during 2008/2009 by Wolf Richter • Jan 16, 2018 • 73 Comments But this time, there’s no Financial Crisis, and no QE in sight.
This is What Happened to Sales & Prices of Manhattan Office Buildings as Chinese Buyers are Suddenly “Absent” by Wolf Richter • Jan 16, 2018 • 92 Comments The formerly hottest trophy market gets a dose of reality.
Commercial Real Estate Suffers First Down-Year since 2009 by Wolf Richter • Jan 15, 2018 • 59 Comments A blistering boom, backed by $4.3 trillion in bank loans, ends.
Bond Market Smells Inflation, Begins to React by Wolf Richter • Jan 14, 2018 • 64 Comments Inflation expectations now exceed the Fed’s target.
Kodak Directors Get Massive Stock Grants Day Before “Blockchain” Hype Caused Shares to Spike 300% by Wolf Richter • Jan 12, 2018 • 72 Comments Regulators remain soundly asleep.
Markets Still Blow Off the Fed, Dudley Gets Nervous, Fires Warning Shot by Wolf Richter • Jan 12, 2018 • 85 Comments In search of the elusive soft landing.
Fed Pays Banks $30 Billion for 2017 by Wolf Richter • Jan 10, 2018 • 78 Comments At taxpayer expense: easiest, risk-free, sit-on-your-ass profit ever.
China Threatens to Quit Buying US Treasuries, Cites “Trade Tensions” by Wolf Richter • Jan 10, 2018 • 83 Comments A financial shot before the bow of the White House.