• https://www.zerohedge.com by Global Macro Monitor
The following chart suggests the stock market still has an outsized influence on the economy.
In theory, the market capitalization to GDP ratio should be a mean reverting time series.
• https://goldswitzerland.com By Matthew Piepenburg
The slow but steady implosion of global bond markets is no longer a debate but fact. Knowing this, investors can better brace themselves for the policy and market reactions to come.
The world and his pet rabbit appear to believe that a 'soft landing' is imminent and 'peak inflation = peak Fed tightening' and so this week saw financial conditions loosen dramatically.
The latest Treasury International Capital flows data (for October) shows, total overseas holdings of US Treasuries (by majors) tumbled once again (by $111.5 billion) to $7.185 trillion in October - the lowest level since May 2021...
Stocks fell sharply Thursday after new data showed retail sales declined more than expected in November, raising fears that the Federal Reserve's relentless interest rate hikes are tipping the economy into a recession.
Update:
Tesla shares have been on a rollercoaster ride this morning.
First, Bloomberg cited multiple sources that said the company's Shanghai plant was set to reduce output. On that news, shares dropped more than 5%.
• https://realinvestmentadvice.com By Lance Roberts
After 12 years of a liquidity-fueled, Fed-induced bull market, are the markets set to start another "secular" bear market? In an interview with the Financial Times, Boaz Weinstein, founder of Saba Capital Management, suggested such.
As those who have been following the How BlackRock Conquered the World series know by now, BlackRock, Inc. started out as an asset management subsidiary of investment giant The Blackstone Group, but quickly spun off into its own entity.
Markets have rallied since we got cooler-than-expected CPI data for October. But in his podcast, Peter Schiff said we are in the eye of the inflation hurricane, and investors have been lulled into a false sense of security.
Markets have rallied since we got cooler-than-expected CPI data for October. But in his podcast, Peter Schiff said we are in the eye of the inflation hurricane, and investors have been lulled into a false sense of security.
Three months ago, Michael Burry, who will forever be memorialized in the annals of market history as the "Big Short", shocked markets when after a series of extremely bearish statements...
Following the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX crypto exchange, wiping out hundreds of billions of dollars in crypto market value (and spilling over into broader equity markets), with risks mounting that other exchanges could see similar bank runs
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