via Bloomberg: What began guardedly, as traditional lenders retreated post-Lehman, has exploded into a financial-industrial complex rapidly approaching $1 trillion, with money streaming in from pension funds, insurers and hedge funds. It’s part of a decade-long borrowing spree that has …
via Sunny Oh Investors fled U.S. equity funds at the fastest pace on record in the week ended Wednesday, according to data from Lipper. More than $46 billion was redeemed from U.S. stock mutual funds and ETFs between Dec. 5 …
Lefty Millennial Media Companies Are Collapsing, Investors Pull Out. Vice and Vox have both missed revenue projections, Disney has written down their investment in Vice by 157 Million dollars, and Buzzfeed resorted to selling cookware at Walmart. Social justice, the …
Leveraged loans trading above par…..where were investors brains most of the year prior to October? This is QE cognitive dissonance…. pic.twitter.com/1kACLUv67F — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) December 14, 2018 The $2.53B withdrawal from US #leveragedloan funds this week? The largest on record. …
by Graham Summers of Gains, Pains, & Capital Yesterday’s bounce was yet another example of why bear markets are so difficult to navigate. Everyone is so excited that President Trump might be able to cut a deal with China… that they’re buying stocks without looking …
via reuters: A worrying sign of inversion in the U.S. Treasury bond curve is dulling the appeal of the developed world’s highest-yielding bond market for foreign investors. Overseas investors are reviewing their investments or shunning Treasuries as rates at the short …
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The growing ranks of stock market Eeyores now have another reason to stay glum: Next year’s profit picture is darkening fast. Corporate earnings forecasts are eroding as the tailwind from the tax cut fades and as …
Dick’s Sporting Goods is warning investors that its decision to remove certain “assault-style” weapons from its Field & Stream stores cost it dearly and may limit its future gains. The sporting goods retailer was forced to confront angry shareholders late …
By Bill Bonner BALTIMORE – We spent a delightful, long Thanksgiving weekend in the country, entertaining children and grandchildren. Not once did we open our laptop computer or look at the headlines. But now, it is another workweek, and we’re …
via BI: In the era of peak quantitative easing (QE), there weren’t many options out there for investors seeking a little bit of yield. Government bond yields were ultra-low, corporate debt yields, especially for investment grade, weren’t much higher, while …
by Michael Snyder These large stock market declines are starting to become a regular thing, and tech stocks are getting hit particularly hard. But we have been in a bull market for such a long time that many investors are having …
by John Rubino Dan Oliver: We learned nothing from the 2008 crisis … Michael Alkin: The US auto industry is about to implode … Rick Rule vs Marin Katusa: Who is the top stock picker? … Peter Schiff: Investors are …
Many investors might assume that corporate buybacks indicate the best times to buy a company’s shares. History shows otherwise! Learn why corporate stock market timing is usually wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ueXnXfNQOU
by Dennis Miller The market is bouncing up and down like Marqeus Haynesdribbled a basketball. Are stop losses necessary? Investors are edgy. Money and Markets reports – “Alarming Survey: Record Number of Fund Managers More Bearish than 08 Crisis”. “…. Bank of America’s monthly …
This should be interesting. Every aspect of the economic system was/is being manipulated to prop up the ponzie scheme central bank. Finally some accountability may actually happen. NEW YORK (Reuters) – A group of large institutional investors including BlackRock …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Lured by the siren song of a “buying opportunity” and a fat yield. GE shares plunged another 10% this morning to a low of $8.15 before recovering a little. They’re now a big step closer to …
From the reuters source: The banks being sued are: Bank of America, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Japan’s MUFG Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Scotland, Societe Generale, Standard …
by streetsofrageTWO Sounds crazy at first but think about it. The #1 goal with no longer reporting unit sales is so Apple investors no longer view Apple as a 100% hardware company. Apple wants to be know as a Software/Services …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Hedge fund managers sit at the top of the financial world’s food chain. They’re generally seen as the smartest money managers, and their companies have the most flexibility to pursue new opportunities. The result is supposed …
by Richard Rosso Passive, In Reality Is Active, Sometimes RADIOactive. The ‘passive’ revolution we’re witnessing is to provide a portfolio solution which is based on the demand for the products, regardless of how expensive the products may be. To be …
by KillingTime56 The 10% correction, that has taken place in October 2018, is the forth largest stock market monthly drop since the year 2000. Here are the other monthly drops since 2000 that were over 10%: September 2002– 10.10% loss …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1056823984807927808 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1056770220331855872 How quickly years worth of gains can be lost in bubble markets….if it wasn't for the US blowing out it's deficit and global QE of $15T and 0% rates for so long, these would have become permanent. At …
via Zero Hedge With hedge fund redemption pressures – as a result of what has been largely abysmal performance by the 2 and 20 crowd in both Q3 and 2018 – frequently cited as one of the potential culprits for …
via @JeffCoxCNBCcom As the stock market, and homebuilders in particular, experience difficulty, it could put pressure on the Fed to ease its pace of interest rate hikes. Homebuilder shares plunged 40 percent from their mid-January high, a move reminiscent of their …
by Michael Lebowitz There is an old saying that proclaims, “it’s not the size of the ship, but the motion of the ocean.” Since this is a family-friendly publication, we will leave it at that. However, the saying has a …
by jakewins The Treasury Department on Friday outlined rules for investors seeking to finance development in under-served regions in exchange for significant tax breaks. The opportunity zones come with several tax advantages. Capital gains placed in a certified opportunity zone …
Jason talks about how US stocks are being sold off for reasons that the mainstream financial media is not mentioning! This includes: more volatility making institutional investors skittish, the US Dollar rally continuing, President Trump continuing to want to escalate …
by Dennis Miller A friend asked why I have an offshore account. I countered, “Do you REALLY trust the government?” He felt the Fed saved us in 2008 with their Quantitative Easing (QE). The economy is great, and employment is rising. …
via Luke Kawa Pessimism on the global economy is piling up amid rising trade tensions and expectations the U.S. central bank will carry on tightening despite the tumult in equity markets. Fund managers surveyed by Bank of America Merrill Lynch this …
What Jan/Feb Vixmageddon and this October mini crash are telling big investors is that the door to get out is ~TINY~ so in as much as they think we're at peak earnings or about to get there, they will likely …