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• Zero HedgeThe last 3 days have seen the biggest surge in US energy credit risk since December 2014, blasting back above 1000bps.
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The last 3 days have seen the biggest surge in US energy credit risk since December 2014, blasting back above 1000bps.
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Last week Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen hinted that the Federal Reserve Board will increase interest rates at the board's December meeting.
Before the Monday, Aug. 24, thousand-point down day, I warned readers of my investment letter to be ready for the market to correct, quite possibly via an "elevator drop" and to get ready to buy stocks on our list of attractive companies.
The US Dollar rally, combined with the ECB's policies and the Fed's hint at raising rates in December, is at risk of blowing up a $9 trillion carry trade.
(Truthstream Media) The Federal Reserve remains the 800-pound gorilla. Its moves are of enormous consequence to the economy, and their interests are at odds with those of ordinary Americans.
Big banks better start looking under the couch cushions. They need to come up with $1.2 trillion to fortify themselves from the next financial meltdown.
Low oil prices could lead to global fuel shortages in the future, the International Energy Agency has warned.
Who struggles with a strong dollar?
As president, my top priority is to grow our economy and strengthen the middle class. When I took office, America was in the middle of the worst recession since the Great Depression --
The United States is apparently fuming over the recent blows to the dollar, as a strengthening yuan is rousing a heightened response.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced today that the US economy created 271,000 jobs in October, a number substantially in excess of the expected 175,000 to 190,000 jobs
2014 was the year of the return of No Income, No Job, No Assets (NINJA), and Stated Three recent ads shown below, courtesy of KGBinvestor, demonstrate just how further down the subprime rabbit hole we have fallen in 2015.
Open Range, Open Season - William Norman Grigg on the killing of a rancher / The EZ Money Boom - Bill Bonner on how it ends /
Today, bankers all around the world are making it more and more difficult to withdraw more than $3000 or €3000 per day, and simultaneously making it impossible to pay for, in cash, any item with a price tag in excess of these levels.
The much-anticipated release of the final text of a sweeping Asia-Pacific trade agreement became a reality on Thursday morning, kicking off what is expected to amount to months of intensive debate on Capitol Hill.
IF the United States is literally $18 trillion in the national debt hole... Who do we owe, and how much do we owe them?
By now it is common knowledge that over the past two years the primary source of stock buying have been corporations themselves (recall Goldman's admission that "buybacks have been the largest source of overall US equity demand in recent years") with
"Everything is awesome." The Fed got just what it wanted... surge in jobs and a surge in wages - which has sent December rate hike odds from 56% to 74%.
If there was any doubt if the Fed would hike rates in December, it is gone now: October payrolls soared by 271K, smashing not only consensus of 184K, but the highest expected print.
Zero Hedge first revealed Overstock's contingency plans "in preparation for the next collapse" ten days ago.
Target is closing the doors to 13 of its stores. On Wednesday, Target (TGT) confirmed that the locations across the U.S. would be closing by January 31, 2016.
Global bond yields climbed to a seven-week high after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said a U.S. interest-rate increase remains a possibility for 2015.
The Fed has been letting the market push it around.
The opening of the Panama Canal locks is just one likely event in what promises to be an eventful year for the global economy.
Stockman on Bloomberg: Budget Deal an Outrageous Punt
U.S. sales are within striking distance of the record for the full year. But even if total auto sales fall short of that mark, the profits that these sales are generating dwarf the earnings that the auto industry raked in when it last set a sales rec
The current stock market melt-up hardly qualifies as limp. Even the robo-machines and hyper-ventilating day traders apparently recognize that their job is to tag the May 2015 highs and then get out of the way.