Cryptocurrencies Show Just How Nuts Things Have Gotten by Wolf Richter • May 22, 2017 • 123 Comments Up 7,000% in two months, then it crashes.
Will Quant Funds Trigger the Next Stock Market Crash? by Wolf Richter • May 22, 2017 • 42 Comments After surging for years, quant hedge funds – where trading is done by machines, not humans – now dominate stock trading.
Corporate America’s “Reverse Yankees” Shoot to Record in ECB Absurdity, But Who Are the Losers? by Wolf Richter • May 21, 2017 • 64 Comments Why do they risk so much for little?
The Pillage of Pemex Turns Bloody by Don Quijones • May 21, 2017 • 26 Comments Gasoline theft is the second most profitable activity for Mexico’s crime gangs.
Oops, this Wasn’t Supposed to Occur in a Rosy Credit Scenario by Wolf Richter • May 20, 2017 • 67 Comments It’s always associated with a recession: last time, the Financial Crisis.
Commodities Bust Hits Farm Lenders, Delinquencies Surge 225% by Wolf Richter • May 19, 2017 • 110 Comments Just as the deflating Farmland bubble leaves its marks.
Used Vehicle Trade-in Values Sink, Hit New Vehicle Sales by Wolf Richter • May 18, 2017 • 95 Comments The #Carmageddon data is just relentless.
ECB Tapering May Trigger “Disorderly Restructuring” of Italian Debt, Return to National Currency by Don Quijones • May 18, 2017 • 63 Comments The only other option: “Orderly restructuring.”
Did Cisco Just Say Demand is “Very Lumpy?” by Wolf Richter • May 17, 2017 • 35 Comments With a history of tripping the markets, Cisco expects sharp drop in revenues
This Is How an Asset Bubble Gets Unwound these Days by Wolf Richter • May 17, 2017 • 58 Comments What the slow crash of classic cars says about the future of other asset classes.