The Central Banks’ “Desperate” Stage is Still Ahead! Carry Trade Reacting to Accelerating JGB Selling USDJPY Taking Aim at 200 DMA and Below US$ ‘Basing View’ At Risk US Treasury 10 Year Yield Breaking Down S&P 500 Rate of Change Tracks Fed Total Asset ROC It’s About Flows and […]
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Charts of Note COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE – Imploding Retail Floor Space Requirements Retail Store Closures Soar In 2014: At Highest Pace Since Lehman Collapse 04-21-14 Zero Hedge What a better way to celebrate the rigged markets that are telegraphing a “durable” recovery, than with a Credit Suisse report showing, beyond […]
PAY ATTENTION TO CREDIT MARKETS – Divergence Has Been Reliably Warning GOAL: Measure the FAIR VALUE of the S&P 500 using fixed-income drivers. Using statistical methods on known credit and rate drivers, on a cross-asset regression of the S&P 500, it showed two weeks ago that the index was higher than its predicted value by […]
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The 2008 financial crisis intially showed itself as cracks in the consumer credit market and in the complicated financial instruments employed by the shadow banking system which fostered that consumer credit. A shocked world learned a whole new vocabulary of acronyms such as SIV’s, ABCP’s, CDS’s, CDO’s and MBS/ABS’s. It was eerily remeniscent of the […]
CHARTS of NOTE: RISK Being Withdrawn from the Markets Old Adage “Rarely a Sell-Off without the Banks Leading the Move Lower” Hedge Funds Levered to the Hilt on: AMZN, GILD, DISH, PCLN, YAHOO, and FB Poor Historic Comparisons US MACRO Lowest in 19 Months RUSSELL 2000, 200 Wek Maximum […]
By Ellen Brown Global Research, April 13, 2014 Taxpayers are paying billions of dollars for a swindle pulled off by the world’s biggest banks, using a form of derivative called interest-rate swaps; and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has now joined a chorus of litigants suing over it. According to an SEIU report: Derivatives . […]
FINANCIAL STRESS – Increasing Despite Increases in Net Worth ITS ABOUT GETTING A REAL JOB -If You Are: Outsourced Downsized Right-Sized Merged Out Contracted Out Put on Part Time or simplyt Laid-Off Finding Work is Brutal! ITS ABOUT GETTING A REAL JOB -Finding Work That Pays Enough to Support a Family Is Nearly Impossible ITS […]
SMALL BUSINESS HIRING – Small Business Confidence is a Major Problem In America