Used Vehicle Prices Finally Drop but Won’t Plunge All the Way Back to Earth in this Crazy Environment. Here’s Why by Wolf Richter • Apr 8, 2022 • 137 Comments Despite the jump in tax refunds, crucial for down payments, used car & truck retail sales fell, and auction prices dipped as price resistance set in.
After Robinhood Shares Collapsed 87% from Peak and 70% from IPO, Goldman Sachs, IPO Lead Underwriter, Cuts Stock to “Sell” by Wolf Richter • Apr 8, 2022 • 133 Comments It would be funny – if it weren’t so serious – how this stuff is imploding, and Wall Street, which created it, is now washing its hands of it.
After GM, Ford, FCA Abandoned Cars, Toyota, Now #1 in the US, Rubs In their Monumental Blunder Publicly by Wolf Richter • Apr 7, 2022 • 216 Comments There’s demand for cars, often lower priced. Abandoning them was an idiotic move to please Wall Street that’s now haunting the Big Three US automakers.
Bank of Japan’s Mind Game: Massive Bond Buys to Cap 10-Year Yield? Didn’t Happen. Bond Holdings Actually Fell. But it Worked by Wolf Richter • Apr 7, 2022 • 54 Comments Maybe the BoJ doesn’t want to totally crush the yen?
Inflation Blows Out in Germany, Spain. Started a Year Ago on Money Printing, NIRP, Supply Chain Chaos. War Threw Fuel on Already Raging Fire by Wolf Richter • Mar 30, 2022 • 143 Comments Double-digit inflation has already been raging in several European countries.
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, March Update: Just Before the Great Spike in Mortgage Rates by Wolf Richter • Mar 29, 2022 • 246 Comments Raging mania to lock in mortgage rates when they were still at 3.2%. But now they’re near 5%.
US Natural Gas Production and LNG Exports amid Urgent Demand for LNG from Europe by Wolf Richter • Mar 28, 2022 • 126 Comments Biggest buyers of US LNG: South Korea, China, Japan, Brazil. But Mexico bought more US natural gas than all four combined.
Another Office Tower Goes Bust: Blackstone Walks from Manhattan Tower it Bought for $605 Million. CMBS Holders to Eat Remaining Losses by Wolf Richter • Mar 22, 2022 • 150 Comments Older office towers are besieged. Working-from-home and hybrid-work aren’t helping. The losses are huge.
Mayhem in the Treasury Market as Powell Adds 50-Basis-Point Rate Hikes (Plural) to Menu, QT “As Soon As” May by Wolf Richter • Mar 21, 2022 • 289 Comments 10-Year yield hits 2.31%, 30-year fixed mortgage rate hits 4.66%. And why the funny kangaroo-shaped yield curve says nothing about the economy.
Next Shoe Drops on Office Markets: State & Local Governments Dump Office Space amid Working-from-Home/Hybrid Model by Wolf Richter • Mar 20, 2022 • 161 Comments Office vacancy rates are already huge, foreclosures of office towers are piling up, and office attendance is still very low, everywhere.
