Analyst Who Called The Repo Squeeze Warns On ‘Combustible Cocktail’ Into Year-End, “There could be a broader de-leveraging across financial markets”.

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via heisenbergreport: BofA’s Mark Cabana – who repeatedly warned about a possibly imminent squeeze in short-term funding markets prior to the acute episode that grabbed headlines late last month and caught the Fed flat-footed – is worried that a “combustible cocktail” may create the conditions for another such episode at the end of the year. The … Read more

China’s industrial profits fall 5.3% in Sept as trade war toll mounts… Chinese property developers cutting prices…employees

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China's industrial profits fall 5.3% in Sept as trade war toll mounts – Reuters pic.twitter.com/vvdR6laUTX — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) October 27, 2019 "Some Chinese property developers are not only cutting prices…employees working for Sunac’s Tianjin unit told their entire staff to buy unsold properties in order to meet the co’s full-yr sales target. They're allowed to … Read more

Hilarious: Bill Maher: The Clintons Have ‘To Go Away’…Hillary is a Trump asset.

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Maher said, “[T]he Clintons, they’ve got to go away. I’m saying this now, a year out, or less, they can’t be at the convention, maybe on the video waving or something. But I’m serious.” Maher then agreed with Representative Justin Amash’s (I-MI) assessment that Hillary is a “Trump asset” and added, “Bill is damaged goods. I just … Read more

ICYMI: The rolling 3-month ratio of leveraged loan credit rating downgrades to upgrades has just spiked to the highest level since the GFC…. Subprime auto loans blow up… M&A transactions drying up like it’s GFC or tech bust again.

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ICYMI: The rolling 3-month ratio of leveraged loan credit rating downgrades to upgrades has just spiked to the highest level since the GFC. RM #DriehausAlts pic.twitter.com/PP15smgVev — Driehaus Capital Management (@DriehausCapital) October 26, 2019 tech pricing in a 2016-style rebound for 2020, but if that doesn't materialize — there will be trouble https://t.co/ooPEw92RBC — Alastair … Read more

Births by age group of mother in the United States

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by theimpossiblesalad Source: United States Department of Health and Human Services (US DHHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Division of Vital Statistics, Natality public-use data 1995-2018 Tools: Microsoft Excel and Adobe Photoshop for the visualization If you liked this, please consider following my Instagram account ( https://www.instagram.com/statistics_data_facts ) for … Read more

Capital One Savers – Switch to Performance Savings

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by AureliusCM Capital One recently launched a new type of Savings account, Performance Savings, while discontinuing the old 360 Savings and Money Market accounts. If you have either of those legacy savings accounts, switch to Performance Savings. This new account type is better than both, but Capital One by default lets you keep the old accounts and does … Read more

One of America’s largest trucking companies is quietly closing a Pennsylvania warehouse and will lay off dozens

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by thinkB4WeSpeak Swift Logistics, a brokerage and asset-based logistics provider, announced layoffs this week It said in a letter to Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor and Industry on Wednesday that it would close its warehouse in York, effective December 31, and that all 56 employees there would be laid off permanently. Swift Logistics is an entity within Knight-Swift, … Read more

PSA: You may be able to access morningstar.com premium using your local library card

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by Stalins-Left-Nipple I cannot express enough the importance of having access to a professional database along with current detailed professional reports on specific securities or mutual funds. Some examples of data you can use are: Fair value uncertainty (How confident analysts are on the intrinsic value of a stock) Intrinsic Value Economic Moat Incredibly detailed … Read more

Is Trump is a Just a Product of the Times?

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by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Dear Mr Armstrong, Donald Trump is the president of the world’s largest economy. Is it the world changing when China become the world’s largest economy? With being categorical like analytic person, defensive like a relationship person and impulsive like a social person president Trump is not the normal creative US person liking … Read more

With Little Fanfare, William Barr Formally Announces Orwellian Pre-Crime Program

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Authored by Whitney Webb via MintPressNews.com, A recent memorandum authored by Attorney General William Barr announced a new “pre-crime” program inspired by “War on Terror” tactics and is set to be implemented next year… Last Wednesday, U.S. Attorney General William Barr issued a memorandum to all U.S. attorneys, law enforcement agencies and top ranking Justice Department officials … Read more

Is China Caving To U.S. Oil Sanctions?

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By Tsvetana Paraskova China’s imports of crude oil from Venezuela dipped to a nearly nine-year low in September as major state-held Chinese companies back out of Venezuelan purchases, looking to avoid fallout from the tightened U.S. sanctions on Venezuela. According to data from China’s General Administration of Customs, as carried by S&P Global Platts, China imported … Read more

Assange Is The Only One To Abide By The Law

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by Raúl Ilargi Meijer On October 21 2019, Brexit became an entirely irrelevant issue. Or perhaps we should say it had already become that, but on that date it was exposed for all to see that it was. The parading into a courtroom of Julian Assange in London was all the evidence one could need … Read more

“Diablo Winds” Are Ferociously Whipping “Out Of Control” Wildfires Across Vast Stretches Of Northern California

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by Michael Snyder   Why does this keep happening to California year after year?  As you read this article, enormous wildfires are ravaging large portions of northern California, and Governor Gavin Newsom has already declared a statewide emergency.  An extreme wind event that began on Saturday evening is pushing the fires along at a staggering … Read more