Bailout of Trucking Company YRC, Near Bankruptcy Before Covid-19, Ripped by Congressional Watchdog by Wolf Richter • Jul 21, 2020 • 69 Comments It wants to know: Why was YRC even bailed out? And why was the taxpayer put at so much risk? What’s going on here?
#TheZooHasGoneNuts: “Fraudulent” Press Release of Buyout Nearly Triples Stock of Soon-to-be-Bankrupt Oil & Gas Producer, Briefly by Wolf Richter • Jul 20, 2020 • 106 Comments Who the heck bought those shares? Robinhood traders? And who placed this press release and cashed in on it?
Recovery of Collapsed Air Passenger Traffic in the US Backtracks by Wolf Richter • Jul 20, 2020 • 104 Comments Confirming early warnings by United and Delta of re-declining ticket sales. V-Recovery has to wait in line. Airline shares down 3.7% intraday.
“Pent-up Supply” Floods San Francisco Housing Market, Most Since Housing Bust by Wolf Richter • Jul 17, 2020 • 187 Comments Sellers are suddenly coming out of the woodwork. Housing market is having a moment.
Work-from-Home & Covid Resurgence Maul Office Occupancy by Wolf Richter • Jul 15, 2020 • 132 Comments There is no recovery for office space. The number of people going to the office has declined over the past four weeks.
Delta’s Passenger Revenue -94%. How it Plans to Stay Alive till “Demand Returns.” Confirms United’s Warning About Newly Waning Demand by Wolf Richter • Jul 14, 2020 • 90 Comments Shrinkage in survival mode instead of V-shaped recovery. “It will be more than two years before we see a sustainable recovery”: CEO.
US House Prices to Drop 6.6% by May 2021, First Annual Decline since Jan. 2012: CoreLogic, Owner of the Case-Shiller Index by Wolf Richter • Jul 7, 2020 • 176 Comments And this, after years of being unwaveringly bullish in its housing market predictions.
Mall and Hotel Loans Are Blowing up Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities by Wolf Richter • Jul 5, 2020 • 123 Comments CMBS delinquency rates for retail properties spiked to 18% and for hotel properties to 24%.
Massive Shifts Underway, Rental Market Reacts in Near-Real Time: Rents Plunge in San Francisco & Oil Patch, Drop in Expensive Cities. But Long List of Double-Digit Gainers by Wolf Richter • Jul 1, 2020 • 106 Comments Rents in San Francisco are still crazy-overpriced.
Who Will Get Hit When Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs) Blow Up? Banks or Unsuspecting “Market Participants”? by Wolf Richter • Jun 29, 2020 • 57 Comments Answers emerge from the murky business of CLOs.
