Just Weeks After the Collapse of Thomas Cook, Spain Launches First Bailout of its Huge Tourism Industry by Nick Corbishley • Oct 12, 2019 • 38 Comments “An unforeseen crisis.” Other headwinds intensify too
Metro Bank Teeters after Bond Sale Fails. Shares Collapsed 95% by Nick Corbishley • Sep 27, 2019 • 17 Comments Hedge-fund manager Steven Cohen and Michael Bloomberg are among those ruing the day they bought the crushed shares of the UK bank touted as a “bargain.”
Thomas Cook Collapses, up to 600,000 Travelers Stranded in Hotel & Airline Chaos, Triggers “Biggest Peacetime Repatriation in UK History” by Nick Corbishley • Sep 23, 2019 • 72 Comments Rescue deal fell through at the last moment. China’s Fosun and other shareholders are toast. Creditors get to fight over the debris.
Interest Rate Derivatives Trading Explodes to $6.5 Trillion/Day by Nick Corbishley • Sep 19, 2019 • 19 Comments A gigantic spike in three years. The UK dominates.
Who’ll Rescue Thomas Cook, the Collapsing Vacation-Travel-Airline Giant with 21,000 Employees? by Nick Corbishley • Sep 13, 2019 • 43 Comments Shareholders are already toast. Would China’s Fosun conglomerate follow the time-honored principle of throwing good money after bad?
Woodford’s Shuttered Fund Crushed Further by Plunging Stocks in its Holdings, such as Muddy-Waters Target Burford Capital by Nick Corbishley • Aug 26, 2019 • 39 Comments Hedge funds have field day front-running the liquidation. 300,000 investors left twisting in the wind.
Liquidity Crunch Mangles UK Equity & Real Estate Funds by Nick Corbishley • Aug 24, 2019 • 43 Comments Exodus from funds with illiquid assets forces funds to block redemptions.
UK Auto Production Plunges to 7-Year Low on Slumping Global Demand & “No Deal” Brexit Fears by Nick Corbishley • Aug 2, 2019 • 50 Comments Investment in the auto sector grinds to a halt.
Another UK Fund Just Slammed its Doors Shut on Investors by Nick Corbishley • Jul 19, 2019 • 48 Comments This time, a fund liquidity crisis traps institutional investors, including pension funds.
London Housing Bust: Prices Fall, Sales Plunge to 2009 Level by Wolf Richter • Jul 17, 2019 • 31 Comments Most other regions in the UK cling to price gains.
