Foreign Exchange Trading Soars to $6.6 Trillion a Day, US Dollar is Total King by Wolf Richter • Sep 18, 2019 • 68 Comments Ginormous numbers, FX swaps and spot trades, USD, EUR, JPY, GBP, Australian & Canadian dollars… but where the heck is China’s CNY?
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Snapback Bloodletting in the Overripe Bond Market by Wolf Richter • Sep 15, 2019 • 65 Comments The 10-year Treasury yield rips. Unstoppable negative yields become stoppable.
Palace Revolt at the ECB, Legitimacy of Policy out the Window by Wolf Richter • Sep 12, 2019 • 157 Comments Draghi’s desperate shenanigans thicken.
Financial World Gone Nuts: $15 Trillion Negative Yielding Debt by Wolf Richter • Aug 6, 2019 • 170 Comments 12 countries with negative 10-year yields. A race to hell.
Negative-Yielding Junk Bonds Have Arrived in Europe by Wolf Richter • Jul 9, 2019 • 91 Comments NIRP is systematically rotting out basic brain functionality.
And the US Dollar’s Status as Global Reserve Currency? by Wolf Richter • Jul 1, 2019 • 72 Comments Apocalypse not now.
No, Rate Cuts Were Not Discussed: ECB Insiders Out Draghi as Fabricator & Schemer, and Talk to Reuters by Wolf Richter • Jun 18, 2019 • 58 Comments Draghi’s shenanigans get hilarious, just months before his term ends.
Bad Loans Still Too High at Eurozone Banks, ECB Warns by Don Quijones • Jun 17, 2019 • 44 Comments NPLs remain dangerously to catastrophically high in Italy, Greece, Portugal, and Cyprus.
Inspired by Deutsche Bank Death Spiral, European Banks Sink to Dec 24, 2018 Level – First Seen in 1995 by Wolf Richter • Jun 15, 2019 • 73 Comments The benefit of NIRP: There’s hell to pay – even the ECB admits it.
US Dollar Hits 52-Week High in Cleanest-Dirty-Shirt-Syndrome on New ECB Stimulus, as Old ECB Stimulus Fails to Stimulate by Wolf Richter • Mar 7, 2019 • 46 Comments The real worry is the economy in the Eurozone.
