It’s the Banks Again by Wolf Richter • Oct 22, 2018 • 56 Comments US bank stock index down 17% from January. EU bank stocks crushed, crushed, crushed since Financial Crisis.
Spain’s Supreme Court Flip-Flops on Mortgage Ruling After Just 1 Day Amid Bank Stocks Bloodbath, Legal Shitstorm Erupts by Don Quijones • Oct 19, 2018 • 15 Comments Plunging bank stocks got the Court’s attention, or something.
Italy’s Debt Crisis Thickens by Don Quijones • Oct 18, 2018 • 28 Comments But outside Italy, credit markets are sanguine, and no one says, “whatever it takes.”
New Market Rigging Scandal Tangles Up Already Teetering Construction Giants in Europe by Don Quijones • Oct 17, 2018 • 19 Comments Italian and Spanish construction companies with global projects on the brink or over the brink.
US-China Trade War, “Hard” Brexit Give Germany Inc. the Willies by Wolf Richter • Oct 16, 2018 • 85 Comments No economy is as dependent on a trade surplus as Germany.
Why’s the World’s Biggest Asset Manager Advising the ECB on the Health of EU Banks? by Don Quijones • Oct 15, 2018 • 40 Comments BlackRock is “a market power that no state can control anymore.”
Here Comes the ECB with a “Bubble” Warning, After it Caused the Most Absurd Bond Bubble Ever by Wolf Richter • Oct 12, 2018 • 73 Comments “The ECB cannot and should not turn a blind eye to risks to financial stability.”
“Concerned” Bank of England Raises Alarm about Growth of High-Risk Loans by Don Quijones • Oct 10, 2018 • 12 Comments “The global leveraged loan market is larger than – and growing as quickly as – the US subprime mortgage market was in 2006.”
Revealed: The Run on Banks in Catalonia after the Independence Vote was Fomented by Madrid by Don Quijones • Oct 9, 2018 • 20 Comments The clandestine role of the Spanish government in a run on deposits that drained €29 billion from Catalan banks.
Italy’s Debt Crisis Flares Up, Banks Get Hit, as Showdown with the EU Intensifies by Don Quijones • Oct 7, 2018 • 59 Comments Italy’s anti-establishment government takes on EU establishment in a struggle that could have major ramifications for the monetary union.