Italian Banks Try to Join EU’s Newfangled Bond Bamboozle by Don Quijones • Dec 31, 2017 • 19 Comments But investors are burned out.
Big Banks Are All Over Blockchain by Don Quijones • Dec 21, 2017 • 32 Comments Just don’t call it cryptocurrency. It’s a “digital currency.”
The Inconvenient Limits to European Unity & Integration by Don Quijones • Dec 16, 2017 • 31 Comments “With Friends Like These…”
Stressful Year Ahead for Spanish Banks by Don Quijones • Dec 12, 2017 • 6 Comments The “spillover effects.”
A New Stealth Attack in EU’s “War on Cash” by Don Quijones • Dec 10, 2017 • 50 Comments And the definition of “cash” widens.
Enron Déjà Vu? Citi, BofA, HSBC, Goldman, BNP on the Hook as Steinhoff Spirals Down by Wolf Richter • Dec 8, 2017 • 55 Comments $21 billion of debt. Off-balance-sheet entities. Moody’s wakes up, downgrades it four notches, with more to come.
The Euro Is Not Dead, Claims EU Survey by Don Quijones • Dec 8, 2017 • 44 Comments The mood has shifted.
Bonds Issued by Acquirer of Mattress Firm & Sherwood Bedding Collapse after ECB Buys Them as Part of QE by Wolf Richter • Dec 6, 2017 • 46 Comments Steinhoff’s “accounting irregularities” crush its stock.
Catalonia’s Post-“Independence” Economic Hangover Sets In by Don Quijones • Dec 6, 2017 • 7 Comments Uncertainty, threats, and counter-threats.
The EU (with Help from Germany) just Made Monsanto’s Day by Don Quijones • Nov 28, 2017 • 30 Comments One of Germany’s largest companies is trying to buy Monsanto, which changes everything.
