BABA will RISE!

by AllAboutTheSPY Baba will go well over 210 by year end (say thank you to HK!) 1) HK listing and its pricing a) The retail part of the offering offering (12.5 million shares plus another 50 million if needed) is set as the lower of the closing price this Tuesday in the US exchange or the … Read more

Jim Willie: The Entire US Financial Bond Market Is A Tinderbox Ready To Catch Fire, Many Are The Triggers Of A Full Blown Global Bond Crisis

by Jim Willie CB The US-based bond market is in tragic condition. All the bonds in US financial markets reek of rigged prices and inflated values. It is not a single bond sector, but rather all bond sectors that are in deep trouble, against a background of multi-year economic recession. The USTreasury Bonds, given the … Read more

VIX & VIX Market Basics

by joeyrb Here’s a TLDR for those who don’t want to sit through the video. What is VIX and how is it calculated? Simply put, VIX uses 23-37 day SPX options to get an annualized, implied 1 standard deviation move (68%) in SPX. For example, if VIX is 15, then VIX is implying a 68% … Read more

Gold in CNY ripe for another leg up.

Gold in CNY ripe for another leg up. – PBOC easing at record debt levels as CPI approaches 4%;– Shrinking current account;– Worsening HK social unrest;– EM currencies selling off; All foreshadows further CNY devaluation. Call it the Chinese banking recap 2.0 pic.twitter.com/Q8BYy5qwQD — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) November 18, 2019

I’m 98.5% sure stocks are going to get tagged this week

https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1196460663700443138 https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1196477170446688257 https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1196544670878314496 https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1196465962721185794   Spec accounts are ULTRA-short VIX. No one fears the potential slowdown 2.0 in the service sector. #Complacency Story -> https://t.co/nmbf2PIfDZ pic.twitter.com/UQPooQBJJ6 — Andreas Steno Larsen (@AndreasSteno) November 18, 2019 The combined market cap of $AAPL and $MSFT now exceeds the entire Russell 2000 via @biancoresearch pic.twitter.com/RzpzNOcfJi — Andrew Thrasher, CMT … Read more

Merry Christmas from Central Banks

https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1196542796343185409 The combined balance sheet of the Fed, ECB, PBOC and BOJ rose in October by the most since last December: @TheTerminal's Daybreak. Perhaps this is what's driving the melt-up in equities more than anything else…. pic.twitter.com/agGQCr4IXa — Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) November 18, 2019 'Companies that make up the S&P 500 index had an average … Read more

Kevin McCarthy UNLEASHES on Adam Schiff With NO HOLDING BACK!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_drPvPcIgE Joe Sauders from The Western Journal reports, The gloves are off. After one day of public hearings on the House “inquiry” into impeaching President Donald Trump, California Republican and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy took to the media on Capitol Hill on Thursday to level an explosive charge against Democrat Adam Schiff. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: … Read more

Glenn Beck’s Soros Cabal Hydra: Iran explodes from ‘Within’ on the Timeline

Civil Society Concerns Global 2.0 Inc. and a “Spontaneous, Indigenous Popular Uprising” is happening in Iran as we speak: Iran supreme leader warns ‘thugs’ amid gas price protests Quote:Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday backed the government’s decision to raise gasoline prices and called angry protesters who have been setting fire to public property over the … Read more

EmergingMarket debt hit a new record high of $71.4T in Q2 2019, up from $66.8T in Q2 2018.

#EmergingMarket debt hit a new record high of $71.4T in Q2 2019, up from $66.8T in Q2 2018. More analysis in the latest Global Debt Monitor: https://t.co/fX01vkFb5X pic.twitter.com/Sd997Gh2yH — IIF (@IIF) November 15, 2019 WATCH: Follow the increase of global #debt over two decades. Latest IIF Global Debt Monitor finds global debt has now surpassed … Read more

What could go wrong? Most countries in “slowdown” phase, net exports of services now falling the most since the GFC & tech bust…. The market fully priced in a global economic recovery

Trade deals are going great. Net exports of services now falling the most since the GFC & tech bust. It’s the only positive contributor to the trade balance. A toxic mix with ballooning government debt. Twin deficit at abysmal levels and we haven’t even had a recession yet. pic.twitter.com/69ui3xIKLn — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) November … Read more

Trump Discussed ‘Negative Rates’ In Unscheduled Meet With Fed Chair… Is GDP 1.9% Growth ‘the Greatest’ or ‘Deep Trouble’?

Update (1120ET): Following the report that Trump and Powell discussed negative rates, among other things, the dollar has slumped to session lows, with the Bloomberg dollar index dipping below 1,200. Source: Bloomberg And in an amusing twist, CNBC’s Eamon Javers notes that this morning’s Fed meeting took place in the White House residence – the president’s … Read more

Global Endgame Has Started, Gold Rush In The Making. Egon Von Greyerz Talks To Ronald Stöferle

by Egon von Greyerz Ronald Stöferle of Incrementum & the “In Gold We Trust” report and Egon of Matterhorn Asset Management, discuss at the Precious Metals Summit in Munich, Germany, the massive risks of the world’s financial system. The two precious metal experts, share their view about how to deal with the profound downside threats … Read more

True US Economy About To Be ‘Revealed’ – Stockman Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veSIFHyK42Y&feature=youtu.be   The Federal Reserve has given another $112 billion to Wall Street. Hardly a sign of a “thriving economy.” David Stockman, former budget director for President Ronald Reagan and author of “Peak Trump: The Undrainable Swamp and the Fantasy of MAGA” joins Rick Sanchez to share his insights. He argues the market “can’t digest” … Read more

Repocalypse: The Little Crisis that Roared

by David Haggith That didn’t take long. I just published an article showing how the Fed had responded with a quarter of a trillion dollars to save the economy from what it claimed was a mere blip. Since then, the recession-causing Repocalypse I’ve warned of has roared around the world, forcing the Fed to amplify its … Read more