A Week Before Christmas, Goldman Sachs Federally Insured Loses $1.2 Billion in Derivative Bets

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via wallstreetonparade A week before Christmas when Americans were focused on either the impeachment proceedings or holiday preparations, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) quietly released its quarterly report on the trading and derivative activities of Wall Street’s casino banks. It contained a humdinger in, literally, red ink. The report showed that Goldman … Read more

Estimated Earning’s Dates for January 2020

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by Not_reddits A look at #earnings for January 2020https://t.co/lObOE0dgsr $AMZN $AAPL $AMD $TSLA $NFLX $FB $MSFT $BABA $CMC $INFO $STZ $BBBY $TEUM $WBA $TWTR $JPM $SNAP $LW $BAC $BA $SHOP $MCD $UNH $APHA $FCEL $PYPL $INTC $GE $LEN $CLF $C $V $MA $BYND $DAL $SBUX $GS $ABBV $JNJ $DPZ $WFC pic.twitter.com/8HlGi03s3G — Earnings Whispers (@eWhispers) … Read more

“Is everybody in?”……Hedge fund exposure to US equities “exploding”

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"Is everybody in?"……Hedge fund exposure to US equities "exploding" $SPY pic.twitter.com/3nFelZxNwR — LongConvexity (@LONGCONVEXITY) December 27, 2019 Pretty obvious how the New Year will unfold. https://t.co/4vRN8Y2TFR — Albert Edwards (@albertedwards99) December 27, 2019 It's just "technical". pic.twitter.com/JROpclkVHJ — Randy Woodward (@TheBondFreak) December 27, 2019     Fed Is Expanding Its Balance Sheet At Fastest Pace … Read more

Media’s Deafening Silence On The Biggest Scandal Of 2019 Is Chilling

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Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via CaitlinJohnstone.com, This is getting really, really, really weird. WikiLeaks has published yet another set of leaked internal documents from within the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) adding even more material to the mountain of evidence that we’ve been lied to about an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria last year which resulted … Read more

Dr. Fed Frankenstein Kept Alive by Zombies

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by David Haggith  Did you know Dr. Frankenstein created a monster that stays alive to this day by eating zombies? Neither did the zombies. Neither, apparently, did Dr. Frankenstein. In fact, the zombies, being braindead as zombies are, do not realize that they are also keeping alive the diabolical doctor who made the monster that is … Read more

The Average Millennial Has A Subprime Credit Score (And Over $80,000 In Total Debt)

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from Zero Hedge As Millennials rage against older generations of Americans, they appear to have forgotten one thing: their own deplorable credit score, or as Experian notes, “what many people might not know: Millennials also have one of the lowest average credit scores of any generation.” As the following chart from Deutsche Bank shows, the average FICO score … Read more

Wife of Man Who Exposed Google’s Election Rigging Dies in Mysterious Car Accident: “I was supposed to die in your arms some day”

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Wife of Man Who Exposed Google’s Election Rigging Dies in Mysterious Car Accident Dr. Robert Epstein @DrREpstein My beautiful wife Misti, a published poet, succumbed last night to injuries sustained in a car accident. I was supposed to die in your arms some day, but a slippery road has ruined everything. You were not just … Read more

Yale psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee calls on Pelosi to submit Pres. Trump to involuntary psych evaluation

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by Dr. Eowyn Bandy Xenobia Lee, MD, MDiv, 49, is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. According to Wikipedia, Lee was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, and is of Korean descent. With an MD from Yale University School of Medicine in 1994 and an MDiv from … Read more

Congrats demorat-run Baltimore, you did it! City breaks record for killings per capita in 2019

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by DCG One day after I reported that Baltimore was nearing a record homicide rate, they achieved it! WISHTV has the details: “With just over 600,000 residents, the city hit a historically high homicide rate of about 57 per 100,000 people after recent relentless gunfire saw eight people shot — three fatally — in one day and nine others — … Read more

Barron’s says a yellow light is flashing. The S&P500 is up 33% in a year while earnings have been flat. Valuations are now at nose bleed levels. Worryingly Forbes say analysts may have to cut 2020 earnings estimates.

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by InterestingNews1 The recent bullish sentiment is driven by forecasts for earnings growth of 10% next year. A Forbes article says that may have to be revised down. 10% Earnings growth would require the 5% revenue growth forecast PLUS net margin expansion. However net margins at 11% are already above historic averages (after Trump’s tax … Read more

A “secular stagnation” in EM!

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Leave aside China and India and the remaining EM countries stopped out-growing developed markets back in 2013 (lhs). This is a much broader story than Argentina and Turkey, with places like Mexico and South Africa essentially at zero growth (rhs). A "secular stagnation" in EM! pic.twitter.com/48oWAI7clN — Robin Brooks (@robin_j_brooks) December 27, 2019

Danielle DiMartino Booth: Jay Powell is actually putting more money out there than the markets can handle.

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"Jay Powell is actually putting more money out there than the markets can handle. But about 60% of the FANG stock gains for the entire year have come since mid-Sept when the Fed fired up the printing press. The idea of a rising interest rate is passé." https://t.co/AdvXLCYd8z — Danielle DiMartino Booth (@DiMartinoBooth) December 27, … Read more

VIX short continues to unwind

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vix short continues to unwind pic.twitter.com/spAGf95SpQ — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 27, 2019 equity indices closed flat to red with vix jump pic.twitter.com/Nu1IEveCvB — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 27, 2019 🧐Through 23rdDec´19. Coming days, few weeks..?🐻 https://t.co/PM0pfdWPpi — Antonio Pérez-Algás (@apanalis) December 28, 2019

Pretty obvious how the New Year will unfold.

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Pretty obvious how the New Year will unfold. https://t.co/4vRN8Y2TFR — Albert Edwards (@albertedwards99) December 27, 2019 The corporate credit fear gauge: As per ⁦@markets⁩ “On Friday, it dipped to 43.712 basis points, the lowest on record.” Welcome to the end of a risk-free year. As far as Corporate America’s balance sheet goes, the bigger the … Read more

The State mustn’t allow banks to go bankrupt – How the Fed saves ‘the system’ at your expense

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by nadgroot The S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average set new record highs every single day last week. This occurred despite the Federal Reserve justifying its unprecedented hundreds of billions of dollars each week in cheap loans to Wall Street’s trading houses as necessary to stem a “liquidity” crisis. You can’t have … Read more

THE RETAIL APOCALYPSE ISN’T OVER: MORE STORE CLOSURES EXPECTED IN 2020

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by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan More than 9,300 retail department stores have shut their doors this year.  As 2020 comes at us quickly, most are expecting the retail apocalypse to drag on. While we are told consumerism and spending remains high, retail establishments are closing down: most permanently. Retailers actually set a new record for store closures in … Read more