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PBOC Injects Hundreds Of Billions Into Chinese Banks After Sudden Defaults In Interbank Payments
As is customary virtually every time the Chinese central bank commences some form of tightening, overnight the PBOC injected "hundreds of billions of yuan into the financial system after some smaller lenders failed to repay borrowings in the interbank market", according to people familiar with the matter.
Obama Enters Media Wars: Why His Recent Attack On Free Speech Is So Dangerous & Radical
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, Control of the news media is an instrumental, key feature to any totalitarian government. In contrast, the primary reason this experiment known as the United States has lasted so long under relatively free conditions is due to the preservation of free speech (and press) via the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Everything You Need to Know About The Debate - Event Details, Rules, Scandals...
The highly-anticipated first presidential debate of 2016 is finally upon us. The event is expected to draw a record TV audience of 100mm likely making it the most-watched presidential debate of all time.
Washington Mall Shooter Caught: Suspect Is 20 Year Old Turk
Following last night's shooting at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, WA mall, when an unidentified gunman killed 5 then managed to slip away from authorities for nearly 24 hours, moments ago the Washington State Patrol tweeted that the shooter has, after a daylong manhunt, been captured.
Maine's Advocate For $12 Minimum Wage Tried To Hire People For $10
Ready to be underpaid to fight for the right to demand a raise? In Maine there is an ironic situation taking place. One of the key players fighting to raise the minimum wage in Maine has recently been exposed as a hypocrite. Why? According to the Portland Press Herald, Maine People's Alliance (MPA) has been one of the louder voices fighting for an increase to the state's minimum wage from $7.50 to a new level of $12 per hour.
Nasdaq Erases All Brexit Losses
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How The Pentagon Is Preparing For A Tank War With Russia
Submitted by Patriuck Tucker via DefenseOne.com, Reactive armor and cross-domain fire capabilities are just some of the items on the Army’s must-have list. When Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster briefs, it’s like Gen. Patton giving a TED talk — a domineering physical presence with bristling intellectual intensity.
Juncker Proclaims Himself All-Knowing God Of EU
Submitted by Michael Shedlock via MishTalk.com, European Council president Jean-Claude Juncker proves just how scary it is to belong in the EU. Juncker actually stated your vote should be ignored, unless of course you agree with him. In effect Juncker anointed himself the “All-Knowing God of the EU.” The following article came out on May 5. I just now saw it, and it provides a fitting lesson of how Juncker thinks heading into the Brexit vote.
Read This Before The Government Uses The Orlando Shooting To Start Another War
Submitted by Claire Bernish via TheAntiMedia.org, Late Thursday evening, the Wall Street Journal reported, 51 State Department officials signed a statement condemning U.S. policy in Syria in which they repeatedly call for “targeted military strikes against the Damascus government and urging regime change as the only way to defeat Islamic State.” “In other words,” as Zero Hedge summarized, “over 50 top ‘diplomats’ are urging to eliminate [Syrian Pres.
"The Politics Of Fairness Have Created The Economics Of Hopelessness"
Charles Biderman, founder of the research firm TrimTabs speaks up against monetary interventionism and spots a concerning development in the US stock market. In an excellent interview with Finanz und Wirthschaft's Christoph Gisiger, Biderman explains that despite recent market action having dragged the S&P 500 back to near-record levels; something else is going on beneath the surface: US companies are announcing fewer stock buybacks.
Video From UCLA Shows How Vulnerable Students Are In A Gun Free Zone Lockdown
Video From UCLA Shows How Vulnerable Students Are In A Gun Free Zone Lockdown A campus shooting on Wednesday at the University of California left two men dead in a murder-suicided that sent thousands of students looking for safety and locking themselves down in classrooms. UCLA is a gun free zone that prohibits students from carrying a gun within 1,000 feet of school grounds under Penal Code 626.9 PC, also known as California’s Gun-Free School Zone Act.
These Are The Ten Companies That Have Cut The Most Jobs In 2016
After the US Manufacturing PMI plunged to 7 year lows today, we thought it relevant to remind everyone just how robust the economy is by showing the 10 companies that have cut jobs so far in 2016. The Fiscal Times has compiled a list of 20 companies - here are the top ten "fiction peddlers" ignoring President Obama's rhetoric...
Everything Changed In 1980 - Why The Fed Is Wrong
Over the weekend, Sam Fleming with the Financial Times interviewed Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren about why the Fed is likely to tighten monetary policy sooner rather than later. “The reason they should believe this time is different is that the economic conditions are changing over this period. If you go back to February there was a lot of financial market turbulence. The first quarter ended up being quite weak.
The Eurozone Is The Greatest Danger
With markets everywhere disrupted by interventions from central banks, governments, and their sovereign wealth funds, economic progress is being badly hampered, and therefore so is the ability of anyone to earn the profits required to pay down the highs levels of debt we see today. Money that is invested in bonds and deposited in banks may already be on the way to money-heaven, without complacent investors and depositors realising it.
Days After Wells Fargo Admits Defrauding The Government, The NY Fed Gives It A Reward
Back on April 9 we described the latest example of how criminal Wall Street behavior leads to zero prison time and just more slaps on the wrist, when Warren Buffett's favorite bank, Wells Fargo, admitted to "deceiving" the U.S. government into insuring thousands of risky mortgages.
Is A Gas War Between The U.S. And Canada About To Start?
The United States and Canada work well together. The countries share the world’s largest and most comprehensive trade relationship, exchanging more than $2 billion per day in goods and services; the U.S. is Canada’s largest foreign investor and Canada is the third-largest foreign investor in the U.S. The partnership clearly isn’t broken, but it may need some mending as bilateral and international gas trade stands to complicate matters in short order.
Investors Pull Most Money From Oil Funds In Over 2 Years As Bears Return
Amid the last two weeks of exuberant short squeeze in crude oil (and anything energy related), investors pulled over $400 million from USO (the largest oil ETF). This week's $348 million outflow is just shy of the record $354 million outflow in Dec 2013. As these outflows hit so bullish positions in oil ETFs have been dropping and bearish positions building once again. As bulls pull back and bears re-emerge (after their record-breaking squeeze)...
As JPM Goes Short, Goldman Says "Never Better Time To Buy S&P Calls"
Shortly after JPMorgan's historically correct forecasters unleashed their "short stocks" prognostication, we joked that if only Goldman would go "long" the S&P500, then the confusion about what is really going on would be eliminated instantly.
Why This Was The Worst February For Hedge Funds Since 2007
It's been a rough stretch for the 2 and 20 crowd. Everyone from Bill Ackman to David Einhorn to (gasp) the zen master himself, Ray Dalio has been seemingly unable to cope with markets that are increasingly volatile, correlated, and impossible to explain. Indeed many of the industry's "rock stars" have massively underperformed of late. As it turns out, "hedge" funds aren't so good at "hedging" after all. Rather, they're simply adept at riding the CB put with massive leverage.
U.S. Unable To Halt ISIS March Towards Libyan Oil
The Islamic State (ISIS) is taking on recruits faster than anyone can keep up with, and it’s heading towards Libya’s oil crescent, eyeing billions of barrels that a country at war with itself cannot protect - even with U.S. air strikes. In mid-December, the United Nations brokered a power-sharing agreement between Libya’s rival factions, but there is no chance of implementing this. That means there is no chance that the Libyan government can fight back the advance of ISIS.
Stocks Surge To Unch For Feb As Crude Jumps & VIX Dumps
Bad news is awesome news again... oh and short squeezes, VIX manipulation, and crude contract rolls are the new 'fundamentals'... Just one waffer thin mint of monetary easing... Stocks soared overnight on dismal data from China, terrible data from Europe, and the weakest PMI in US since 2012... Obviously most of the move in cash markets occurred at the open - but Trannies had the best day... This dragged S&P to unch for Feb, Dow green, and extended Trannies' gains...
Canadian Pacific Warns Of "Tremendous Pressure", "Strong Headwinds" For Economy
One week ago, when we explained why "Things Just Went From Bad To Worse For U.S. Railroads," we said that "the rail industry is about to be slammed with a dramatic repricing, one which is only the start and the longer oil prices remain at these depressed levels, the lower the rents will drop (think Baltic Dry but on land), until soon most rails will lose money on every trip and will follow the shale companies into a race to the bottom, where "they make up for its with volume." Today, none...
Clinton Vs. Sanders - What Does Google Say... And The Facts
With stunning polls showing Bernie Sanders with a 60% to 33% lead over Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire... The new poll, mostly conducted before Sunday night's debate, found Sanders' support has grown by 10 points since a late-November/early December CNN/WMUR poll, which found Sanders holding 50% to Clinton's 40%.
If You Don't Agree With Obama You Are "Peddling Fiction"
If you’re not watching it purely for the entertainment value, sitting through a State of the Union speech ranks somewhere between a colonoscopy and a root canal. Every year I opt for the former (entertainment value, not colonoscopy). But because I live overseas, one of the added entertainment benefits is that I’m surrounded by foreigners who are seeing this highly ritualistic propaganda for the first time.
Pending Home Sales Plunge In November, Realtors Warn Fed Over Higher Rates
Having seen New Home Sales disappoint and Existing Home Sales crash in November, Pending Home Sales plunged 0.9% MoM (against expectations of a 0.7% MoM rise). Having plateaued in October near 8-month lows, today's huge miss was driven by a plunge in sales in The West (-5.5%) and NorthEast (-3.0%). Home sales rose just 2.6% YoY - the weakest since October 2014.
What Benefits To Savers? Banks Rush To Hike Prime Rate To 3.50%, Forget To Increase Deposit Rate
Someone forgot to give the banks the memo that the Fed's first rate hike since 2006 was supposed to, at least on paper, benefit the savers of America and not so much the, well, banks.. Because the ink hadn't even dried on the Fed's statement and one after another banks revealed that they would promptly boost their Prime lending rate from the current benchmark of 3.25% to the new Fed Funds-implied prime rate of 3.50%.
Copper's Dumping As Crude's Pumping
Dr. Copper and Captain Crude are in significant disagreement over the state of the world... or it is just algos gone wild once again? Crude jumps back above $37 for no good reason whatsover in the face of a surging dollar. Copper plunges to one-week lows. Average: Your rating: None Average: 4.7 (3 votes)
Get High Or Else!
In yesterday’s (Dec 12) technical charts I outlined some key follow up charts. If you haven’t seen them I highly encourage you to check them out as the context is important. As outlined 75% $NYSE stocks are now below the 200MA. After reviewing dozens of charts this weekend one message permeates the landscape: Markets need new highs or else. Why? Because every structural chart points to a repeat of previous major tops.
Is VIX Heading Back To 40 This Week?
For the first time since August 2008, high-yield bond 'VIX' is greater than US equity 'VIX'. The 1-month implied vol of HYG has surged over 21 - its highest since October 2011. The last time credit's volatility surged above stocks like this, VIX quickly accelerated well beyond 40, pricing in the increased business risk. Furthemore, just as we saw in July/August, the cost of protecting equity markets is beginning to accelerate up to the surging cost of protecting credit markets.
The Truth Comes Out: "This Is The Worst Global Dollar GDP Recession In 50 Years"
The following brief summary of the global economic situation should, once and for all, end all debate about whether the world is "recovering" or is now mired deep in a recession. Debt has continued to climb since the crisis with Global Debt/GDP still on the rise, with no obvious sign of when this rise stops for many major countries. Indeed much of the post GFC increase in debt has been raised on the back of the commodity super-cycle which is currently unraveling in EM and the US HY market.
Here Are HSBC's Top Risks For 2016
With the end of the fiscal and calendar year upon us, sellside research rushes to put to print its latest forecasts about the coming year, and HSBC - which recently made headlines when it slashed its 2016 year-end forecast on 10-Year yields from 2.8% to 1.5% - is no exception. Earlier today, the firm's research team issued a report laying out the top 10 risks for 2016, which had a peculiar caveat suggesting some at the bank is not in a rush to get arrested... ...
As Fed Decision Looms, China's Yuan Tumbles Near Lowest Level In 4 Years
With just nine days until The Fed - which has prepared the world, apparently - will raise rates for the first time in years (and potentialy suck up to $800 billion of liquidity from the global collateral chains of shadow stability), it appears China is doing its best to start some destabilizing efforts (which worked last time).
Healthcare & Housing Cost Surge Sparks Biggest Rise In Core Consumer Prices Rise In 16 Months
Following September's strongest Core CPI gain since June 2014, October accelerated that modestly with CPI ex food and energy rising 1.9% YoY. Broad CPI rose 0.2% YoY (slightly better than the 0.1% expected rise) - the highest sicne December. Month-over-month saw new and used vehicle prices drop, Apparel prices drop 0.8% (most since Dec 2014), PCs drop 0.9%, but was notably offset by the bigger-weighting in Medical Care which rose 0.7% MoM (3.0% YoY) and Shelter rose 3.2% YoY.
Snowden Vindicated As Judge Slams "Unconstitutional, Orwellian" NSA Bulk Spying
On Monday, a federal judge ordered a halt to the NSA’s bulk metadata collection program in a reiteration and confirmation of a previous ruling that found the practice “unconstitutional” — and even “Orwellian.” “This court simply cannot, and will not, allow the government to trump the Constitution merely because it suits the exigencies of the moment,” stated Washington, D.C. District Court Judge Richard Leon in his mordant 43-page ruling.
Confused About What Mario Draghi Will Do Next? Here's The Official Decision Tree From His Former Employer
Earlier today, after a disappointingly un-uber-dovish speech by Draghi, it appeared The ECB needed to double down on the easing message to make sure 'markets' believe. As we noted, EURUSD tumbled 50 pips - to the lows of the day - after Reuters report that the central banks is mulling buying the debt of cities and regions. The punchline was this: "Some cities in Spain or Italy are bust. But a city will always be there. Someone will always pay back the debt.
"No More Bets": New York Shuts "Illegal Gambling" Fantasy Sports Sites
A little less than a month ago, Nevada shut down fantasy sports sites, effectively telling the likes of DraftKings and FanDuel to apply for a gaming license or face a decade in prison.
Subprime Auto Goes Full-Retard: Lender Sells $154 Million ABS Deal Backed By Loans To Borrowers With No Credit
If you frequent these pages, you may remember Skopos Financial, the subprime auto lender that’s been busy packaging all manner of questionable auto loans and offloading credit risk to investors via some of what can only be described as the most noxious looking ABS deals in the history of securitization.
First They Jailed The Bankers, Now Every Icelander To Get Paid Back In Bank Sale
First, Iceland jailed its crooked bankers for their direct involvement in the financial crisis of 2008. Now, every Icelander will receive a payout for the sale of one of its three largest banks, Íslandsbanki. If Finance Minister Bjarni Benediktsson has his way — and he likely will — Icelanders will be paid kr 30,000 after the government takes over ownership of the bank. Íslandsbanki would be second of the three largest banks under State proprietorship.
This Is What The "Invasion Of Europe" Looks Like
On Monday, we brought you a series of still shots along with a video which depicted the scope of Europe’s migrant crisis via drone footage. The point in highlighting the imagery was to demonstrate just how futile the EU’s effort to establish a series of refugee “holding camps” along the Balkan route to Germany is likely to be.
Ackman Loses $600 Million In Seconds As Valeant Plummets On Citron's "Enron Part Deux" Report
With default risk soaring, and Ackman's dreams dissolving, Valeant Pharma is crashing again today (halted three times and down over 28%) following a report by Citron Research that claims to have a "smoking gun" on the company's activities, claiming Valeant is channel stuffing using pharmacies related to Philidor to store inventory and record the transactions as sales.
Russian College Dropout Busted For 1,316 Spoofs Of Everything From E-Minis, To Copper, To VIX
Another day, another "crackdown" by the CFTC on an "evil spoofing mastermind." No, not Virtu, not Citadel acting as a proxy agent for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, not any of the thousands of frontrunning HFT firms operating behind the scenes as prop-traders pretending to provide liquidity, and not even even your token Indian working out of his parents' London basement blamed for the May 2010 flash crash, but a 33-year old college dropout called Igor Oystacher, co-founder of...
Obamacare's Latest Casualty: Largest Health Insurer On Colorado Exchange Abruptly Collapses
With the mainstream media, at least the majority that is left of center, flooded with story after story touting Obamacare's success, the news coming this morning from Denver that Colorado's largest nonprofit health insurer and participant in that state's insurance exchange Colorado HealthOP is abruptly shutting down, forcing 80,000 Coloradans to find a new insurer for 2016, was a slap in the face for the Obama administration's crowning achievement.
It's Time For Negative Rates, Fed's Kocherlakota Hints
If you’re a fan of dovish policymakers who are committed to Keynesian insanity, you can always count on Minneapolis Fed chief Narayana Kocherlakota who, as we’ve detailed extensively, is keen on the idea that if the US wants to help itself out, it will simply issue more monetizable debt, because that way, the Fed will have more room to ease in the event its current easing efforts continue to prove entirely ineffective (and yes, the irony ineherent in that assessment is completely intentional).
Do You See What Happens, Alcoa, When Your "Restructuring" Non-GAAP Addbacks Tumble
Moments ago, the company that traditionally kicks off earnings season did just that, and sent the ball into a throw in. The reason: just like all the other companies that have reported and pre-reported so far in the third quarter, its results were a huge miss: AA reported non-GAAP EPS of $0.07 missing expectations of $0.13, on revenues of $5.57 billion, a 10% drop Y/Y, also missing top-line estimates of $5.75.
15 Dead, 20 Injured At Umpqua Community College Mass Shooting; Shooter Said To Be In Custody
Moments ago, following a lull in reports of US mass killings, the newswires lit up with reports of the latest "active shooter" incident this time on the campus of Umpqua Community College in Oregon, where according to KATU 2 News, 15 people were killed and at least 20 injured in what is still a developing situation. A shooter has been reported at Umpqua Community College, according to the Douglas County Fire District's Twitter account.
The Upside Of The VW Debacle
The collapse is not over by any stretch...
Forget The New World Order, Here's Who Really Runs The World
For decades, extreme ideologies on both the left and the right have clashed over the conspiratorial concept of a shadowy secret government pulling the strings on the world’s heads of state and captains of industry. The phrase New World Order is largely derided as a sophomoric conspiracy theory entertained by minds that lack the sophistication necessary to understand the nuances of geopolitics.
Summing It All Up (In 1 Sad Cartoon)
“It is true that income inequality has kind of gotten worse, but you can take the compensation of every CEO in America and make it zero and it wouldn’t put a dent into it. What really matters is growth. It’s not right to say we’re worse off … If you go back 20 years ago, cars were worse, the air was worse. People didn’t have iPhones.”
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