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Amid the controversy over GameStop, many cynics argued that something sinister was clearly afoot because the hedge funds had shorted 138 percent of the outstanding shares.
It's not just the surge in meme stocks that is a case of deja vu all over again: the big action this morning is in another closely watched asset - the 10Y - where yields have soared by almost 10bps...
Welcome to New World Next Week the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news.
Update (1749 ET): As of this update, Reddit is back online, and so is WSB.
Update (1620ET): After staging a massive rip in the last few minutes of trading...
The Fed's most frequent lament is that no matter how many trillions in bonds (and stocks and ETFs) it buys or how much liquidity it forehoses into the market, it just can't push inflation higher.
Financial history includes plenty of extreme years. That's not surprising, since we're emotional beings with short memories. Combine those two traits and you get cycles, many of which end with a bang.
Watching the market's panicked reaction this morning as the reality of the recent surge in first breakevens then real yields, is finally appreciated by the "cubic zirconium" hands, the momentum chasing algos and the puking CTAs, can't help but bring
Volatility has returned to Wall Street, and it appears that our absolutely epic stock market bubble may be in serious trouble.
"Musk is now tied to the bitcoin story in the eyes of the Street and although Tesla made a billion paper profit in its first month owning the digital gold, it comes with added risk, as seen this week," Ives told CNBC via email on Tuesday.
Quick Note This past week was interesting.
ARK Invest's Cathie Wood joined CNBC's Scott Wapner last week. She warned of the increasing risk of a stock market correction if rates continue to "sharply" rise.
The endless flood of both central bank and fiscal stimulus means that hundreds of billions of liquidity - to the tune of approximately 0.7% of global GDP every single month...
Earlier today we pointed out that after being frozen for almost a year...
To the extent that demand for silver exceeds the available supply at that time, Authorized Participants may not be able to readily acquire sufficient amounts of silver necessary for the creation of a Basket.
The wave of populist energy that surged through the nation's most elite financial power centers last month really had the wolves of Wall Street biting their nails. Hedge fund managers didn't take kindly to Reddit users pumping up the price of sto
Stock prices are not going to stay this high. Everyone can see that we are in a stock market bubble that does not have any parallel in all of U.S. history, and everyone can see that the end of that bubble is approaching.
Frankly, we've had it with the constant stream of lies from Robinhood and neverending bullshit from the company's CEO, Vlad Tenev.
Imagine for a moment that the price of all your investments - your stocks, your retirement portfolio, your house - suddenly drop in half this year.
For the past two months we have been especially constructive on the uranium sector (and its handful of beaten down stocks), which we believe are set to benefit tremendously as the sector gets swept up in the ESG euphoria. Some of our recent observati
While markets, regulators and even Maxine Waters have been obsessing over the various rolling short squeezes orchestrated by Reddit and Robinhood raiders (with or without the help of hedge funds who ended up being the biggest beneficiaries of the Gam
Trading the recovery and sensitive stocks linked to the reopening following a month and a half of vaccine rollouts have benefited traders who have piled into these stocks, such as airlines.
We're deluged with numbers these days, many of them huge, ominous departures from historical norms. But one matters more than the others. To understand why, let's start with some history.
The regulators are coming, the regulators are coming...
Short selling is used against public - History of short selling - Only 0.01% stock holders know this - Tesla was under massive attack - MBAs don't know how things work - Your car is a horse (self-driving) - One million people die in car accidents
With Gamestop stock in freefall, down a further 5% Wednesday morning to the low 47-handle, r/WallStreetBets has gravitated to cannabis stocks in recent days, squeezing the living daylights out of any hedge fund that is short pot stocks.
As goes every fad where hot money pops up on Wall Street, it should come as no surprise that hedge funds and quant funds are now trying to chase down and bottle up some of the GameStop "mojo" from earlier this month that made many retail traders boat
With Gamestop stock in freefall, down a further 5% Wednesday morning to the low 47-handle, r/WallStreetBets has gravitated to cannabis stocks in recent days, squeezing the living daylights out of any hedge fund that is short pot stocks.
The benefits of having Tesla as part of the broader S&P 500: Now, all investors get to benefit from the random quirks of the world's most unpredictable CEO
"We are getting to the point where we have to start worrying about the risk of how do we pull back on that stimulus, will it cause the economy to overheat, are these valuations becoming too expensive."
