"Aberrative Silliness" - Stocks Are Dismissing Fed Hawkishness, Hoping For Next Round Of Q
• https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler DurdenUS equity markets are up 5 of the last 6 days, with Nasdaq soaring 12% off the lows from last Tuesday...
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US equity markets are up 5 of the last 6 days, with Nasdaq soaring 12% off the lows from last Tuesday...
In this video, I breakdown the latest Q4 earnings report for Nikola stock ($NKLA) to understand their catalysts and financial position for 2022.
In this video, I go over how rising interest rates could be bullish for the stock market and analyze Jerome Powell's FOMC meeting. I also discuss retail sales data and conduct a technical analysis of $SPY to see if we will crash even more. As a discl
Update (0650ET): "What a debacle," said Ole Hansen, head of commodities strategy at Saxo Bank A/s. "The LME is not doing itself any favors."
Two days ago, with China stocks crashing and burning seemingly every day, we posted "JPM Downgrades Chinese Internet Sector, Tells Clients To Avoid For 6-12 Months" in which we quoted the largest US bank as follows:
Despite the fact that German 10y yields have risen ~55bps YTD, this period of euro-area bond pain may only be beginning.
Prediction Comes True As Trafigura Faces Billions In Margin Calls
"Risk" is on. I don't mean market risk: not when Western stocks are slumping after yet another head-fake rally, the Nasdaq now in a bear market again; not when Chinese stocks are experiencing a 2008-style collapse – and who knew geopolitics a
The Volmageddon event of February 2020 is back, only this time instead of destroying the XIV inverse ETF, it is now targeting the VXX
- Despite 'Miraculous' Macro Data, Chinese Stocks Remain "Uninvestable"
For the third day in a row stocks roared out of the gate and oil tumbled as a result of optimism that a ceasefire was just around the corner, and for a third day in a row the rug has been pulled, this time by Putin himself who just before 12pm ET tol
The entertainment company says that, because it was once a meme stock, it knows how to "navigate through liquidity challenge"
...equity market valuations may have only begun to normalize, especially if the Fed is now going to be forced into tightening into a downturn.
--That's Taken Shape Over The Past Six Years"
"Defending freedom is going to cost," declared President Biden, announcing an import ban on Russian oil. And no doubt our Commander-in-Chief is right. Everything we do comes at a cost. The goal in peacetime, of course, is to engage in activities
Credit is "cracking" are the ominous words that BofA strategist Michael Hartnett chose to describe the bond markets currently, and it is a very ugly picture indeed - for both price... and flows. As HY bond prices lead equities lower...
Until yesterday, it appeared that a bailout plan for Chinese stainless steel titan Tsingshan Holding Group owned by "Big Shot" Xiang Guangda (and which was facing an $8 billion nickel margin call following the explosive surge in Nickel prices which
The earlier spike in US futures - following somewhat optimistic tones from Putin - have all been erased by actual events and the reality of significantly more unhappy America than expected (from UMich)...
After briefly rising above $40,000 this morning following the earlier (and now forgotten) report of some soothing words from Putin over the Ukraine conflict, Bitcoin and the broader crypto sector has slumped to session lows...
Two days ago we reported that while "plain vanilla" commodity producers such as coal giant Peabody had no choice but to pay up on their commodity margin calls (which they funded with an expensive, 11%, Goldman credit facility), others such as Chinese
The Ukraine War Has Thrown Global Markets Into A State Of Complete And Utter Chaos
The nickel market just broke and a Chinese producer took a $5 billion margin call hit.
One look at today's absolutely bananas explosion in LME Nickel prices which soared 82% in one day to a record $52,700...
Nickel prices soared as much as 82% to $52,700 a metric ton, the highest in the 35-year history of the contract trading on the London Metal Exchange, as fears over Russian supplies triggered a historic short squeeze according to Bloomberg.
Amid widespread concerns of cascading Russian defaults, Gazprom creditors breathed a sigh of relief this morning on the news that the Russian energy giant had made a coupon payment on bonds due today.
By now, you're no doubt getting pretty worried about the markets. After all, why wouldn't you?
Over the past week, we first noted that amid broad economic sanctions, there were numerous Russian gold refiners on the LBMA's "Good Delivery" list, and subsequently we said that this "begged the question as to what would the LBMA do about the large
The condition of China's winter wheat crop could be the "worst in history," the agriculture minister said on Saturday according to Reuters, raising concerns about grain supplies in the world's biggest wheat consumer.
The global systemic risk 'boogeyman' is back..
"Alas, that these evil days should be mine..."