JAPAN PREPARES TO INSTITUTE MARTIAL LAW!

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A legal change this week will allow Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to declare a state of emergency to address the new coronavirus outbreak if he deems it necessary. To seek cross-party cooperation, Abe in a rare move met separately with five opposition leaders to ask for support for the legal change needed for him to … Read more

Home quarantine enforcement rules in Russia

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Murad Gazdiev @MuradGazdiev Home quarantine enforcement in Russia: If you violate quarantine but don’t infect anyone – it’s a moderate fine. If you infect someone with #cornoravirus – that’s up to a year in jail. If you violate quarantine, infect someone and they die – that’s 5 years in prison. Home quarantine enforcement in Russia: … Read more

WE HAVEN’T SEEN ANYTHING YET

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Another domino falling. Chinese stocks just broke down from a 4-year support. China is on the verge of a banking a currency crisis. We haven’t seen anything yet. pic.twitter.com/rOBHhliCAW — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) March 9, 2020 CBOE SENIOR TRADING DESK SPECIALIST: WE WERE INITIALLY UNABLE TO OPEN $VIX OPTIONS TRADING THIS MORNING DUE TO … Read more

Someone Just Bet That VIX Will Top 100 By Tomorrow!

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via Zerohedge: Update (1115ET): With VIX stubbornly holding at post-financial crisis highs, someone just bet things are about to get worse… than the peak of the financial crisis… VIX hit 90 at the Lehman crisis peak… And as Bloomberg reports, some traders are steeling themselves for the possibility that the VIX index hits triple digits … Read more

Wait until that echoes around the credit markets. We could see a fund blow up and or banks hit trouble….

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Wait until that echoes around the credit markets. We could see a fund blow up and or banks hit trouble….https://t.co/wA6OMONqc7 https://t.co/2eitWXNnlP — Shaun Richards (@notayesmansecon) March 9, 2020 Dick Bove on banks: “A sharp decline in oil prices will be a body blow to an industry already at high risk.” https://t.co/f4GphtGHZK — Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) … Read more

This is NOT a V-shape recovery

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by Dans2016   TV talking heads are touting a V-shape recovery and “buy the dip” since last Friday. There won’t be a recovery for some time. Market was a bubble and needs to rests to sane levels. More stupid Fed actions would add to troubles. We’ll have money to adopt a real polar bear soon. … Read more

Financial Conditions Getting More Stressed

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by UPFINA If this was a normal economic slowdown for cyclical reasons, there would be much more focus on the Fed as it would be trying to save the economy from a recession similar to its actions in 2019 during that slowdown. However, now we have the coronavirus which limits the Fed’s ability to save markets … Read more

What women want over the years

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by theimpossiblesalad For those wondering, here is the sorted change in position from 1939 to 2008: Sociability: +5 Good looks: +5 Mutual attraction—love: +4 Education, intelligence: +4 Desire for home, children: +3 Good financial prospect: +3 Similar education background: +1 Good cook, housekeeper: +1 Similar political background: +1 Dependable character: 0 Similar religious background: 0 … Read more

Just a tip: For those thinking about selling, have a pre-defined plan for getting back into the markets.

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by cbus20122 With markets limit down 5% in futures trading, oil down almost 26% right now, and no real resolution of any of the items worrying markets, it’s understandable that we’re getting a lot of posts on here discussing going to cash, selling, reducing risk, etc. I’m not going to argue against the merits of going to … Read more

Things are starting to look worse than 2008…

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https://twitter.com/GreekFire23/status/1236999221972172800 Circuit-breakers today: * If the S&P 500 declines 7%, (208 points), trading will pause for 15 min * If declines 13%, (386 pts) trading will again pause for 15 mins * If falls 20%, (594 pts) the markets would close for the day. (via @peterschack) @CNBC — Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) March 9, 2020 Soon … Read more

Funny how the Fed insisted that their liquidity injections had no influence on markets on the way up but now they ramp them up to protect markets.

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https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1236997142109196288 “Beginning today the Desk will increase amount offered in daily overnight repo operations from at least $100B to at least $150B…increase amount offered in 2-week term repo from at least $20B to at least $45B” Panic stations. ht ⁦@bondstrategist⁩ https://t.co/VaVJdRizTr — Danielle DiMartino Booth (@DiMartinoBooth) March 9, 2020 Fed is panicking! https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1236991222281109505   AC

TRUMP – “She Has Torn This Country Apart”

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“She Has Torn This Country Apart” – Trump Declines Invitation to St. Patrick’s Day Lunch with Scorching Letter to Crazed Speaker Pelosi President Donald Trump slammed and snubbed Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday with an announcement he won’t attend the annual St. Patrick’s Day lunch in the Capitol this Thursday. It’s the first time a … Read more

Did the DNC intentionally schedule the 11th debate on CNN on Sunday March 15, 2020 to reduce viewership? – Jan 12th: HBO announces s03 premiere of Westworld – Feb 14th: DNC announces 11th debate

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by upvoatz Westworld s03 is scheduled to premiere on Sunday March 15th at 9pm ET. The next debate is scheduled to begin on the same night at 8pm ET. Taking a page from the Clinton / Debbie Wasserman Schultz playbook four years ago, does anyone think it’s odd that: the debate was scheduled on establishment … Read more