After Losing $11 Billion on $9.4-billion Nokia Buy & Axing 27,650 Jobs, Microsoft Dumps Consumer Smartphones by Wolf Richter • May 26, 2016 • 48 Comments Another Blistering Merger Fail, but Wall Street wins again.
What Will Sink the US Auto Boom? by Wolf Richter • May 24, 2016 • 88 Comments It’s already in the works and goes far beyond subprime.
Manufacturing Recession Goes Global as Demand Withers by Wolf Richter • May 24, 2016 • 29 Comments References to 2009 & the Global Financial Crisis keep popping up in the reports because that’s how bad it has gotten.
Hedge Funds Are Betting Record Amounts on Meltdown of Australian Banks and Housing Bubble by Wolf Richter • May 23, 2016 • 50 Comments Best way to short Australian real estate, or “widow maker trade?”
Despite Rally, Hype, and NIRP, Bear Markets Hound the Globe by Wolf Richter • May 22, 2016 • 28 Comments Even in the US.
OK I Get it, Corporate Earnings are a Fairy Tale and Reality is Crummy, But Do They Have to Push it This Far? by Wolf Richter • May 21, 2016 • 63 Comments Even the SEC woke up. But what will the media do?
Shipbuilding Industry Collapses, Hits China and South Korea by Wolf Richter • May 20, 2016 • 39 Comments Global overcapacity, plunging demand, and a price war.
Business Loan Delinquencies Spike to Lehman Moment Level by Wolf Richter • May 19, 2016 • 36 Comments Up 137% since Q4 2014.
Russia Frets about Risk of “Recession” in China by Wolf Richter • May 19, 2016 • 40 Comments What do they see that we don’t?
Silicon Valley Housing Market Hit as Chinese Money “Dried up” by Wolf Richter • May 18, 2016 • 30 Comments “It doesn’t mean the market is going to crash tomorrow.”