Central Banks
Gold In 2016: "Economic Power Is Shifting"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/09/2016 18:15 -0500An unseen bubble at the heart of the financial system is deflating with unknown consequences. When bubbles deflate, and here we are talking about one in the hundreds of trillions, bad debts are usually exposed. Even though much of the reduction in outstanding OTC derivatives is due to consolidation of positions following the Frank Dodd Act, much of it is not. When free markets reassert themselves, and they always do, the disruption promises to be substantial. We appear to be in the early stages of this event. If so, demand for physical gold can be expected to escalate rapidly as a financial crisis unfolds.
Global Central Banks Are Facing a Crisis Larger Than 2008... And With Little to No Fire Power Left!
Submitted by Phoenix Capital Research on 01/09/2016 15:25 -0500Central Banks have employed virtually all of their ammunition including policies that would have been considered "nuclear" in 2008. And the debt bubble is $20 trillion larger than it was in 2008!
This Is The $3.5 Trillion "Neutron Bomb" That Keeps Kyle Bass Up At Night
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/08/2016 22:57 -0500"... what we are going to see next is a credit cycle, and in a credit cycle you see some losses, but if China's banking system loses 10%, you are going to see them lose $3.5 trillion."
Raoul Pal Explains What Indicators He Looks At To Decide If The Next Crisis Has Arrived
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/08/2016 21:01 -0500Today, we bring our readers another RealVision excerpt of a reflexive "interview" in which Pal himself is in the hot seat, and goes into detail explaining the indicators he will be watching throughout 2016 that will suggest that a liquidity crisis is imminent.
Priced For Perfection - Why This Burrito Market Is Heading For A Fall
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/08/2016 14:40 -0500In March 2014 Wall Street’s ex-items S&P 500 earnings forecast for 2015 was about $133 per share; it ended up 20% lower at $106. Yet here they go again - the consensus for 2016 started out at $137 per share last spring, and is just now beginning to make its way back toward the high $120s. It is a barometer of the abject complacency and intellectual sloth that has descended on the casino owing to two decades of Fed coddling and seven year of free money for the carry trades. In the case of Chipotle, it was always just a burrito. In the case of the US and world economy and financial markets, it’s not even that.
Gold Higher In Most Currencies in 2015 - Up 4% This Week
Submitted by GoldCore on 01/08/2016 14:23 -0500The sole focus of gold in dollar terms and the 10% fall of gold priced in dollars has led to some negative comment about gold's annual fall, the "third year of losses."
The Hedge Fund Known As The Swiss National Bank Posts A Record $23 Billion Loss, Down 4%, On EUR, AAPL, VRX
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/08/2016 14:01 -0500In a year in which the smartest money around the world failed to generate any profit, the hedge fund known as the SNB was likewise slammed, and earlier today, it announced in a preliminary report (the full results will be out on March 4) that it had suffered a CHF23 billion ($23.05 billion) loss in the past year, or about 4% of its assets under management. In retrospect, considering some of the double-digit losses recorded by the marquee hedge fund names, a 4% loss looks downright respectable by funds who "hedge" only in name.
When The U.S. Dollar No Longer Exists
Submitted by Sprott Money on 01/08/2016 10:06 -0500When will we know that the United States is really close to “normalizing interest rates”? The U.S. dollar will no longer exist, and (hopefully) neither will the Federal Reserve – the entity which promised to “protect” that dollar.
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It's Official: Bitcoin Was The Top Performing Currency Of 2015
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/07/2016 20:00 -0500For most investors, the major story of 2015 was the expectation and eventual fulfillment of a rate hike, signalling the start of tightening monetary policy in the United States. This policy is divergent to those of other major central banks, and this has translated into considerable strength and momentum for the U.S. dollar. Despite this strength, the best performing currency in 2015 was not the dollar. In fact, the top currency of 2015 is likely to be considered the furthest thing from the greenback.
What China Has To Look Forward To When It Opens In A Few Hours
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/07/2016 19:38 -0500
It's all up to China tonight.
Perfect Storm!?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/07/2016 17:20 -0500One of the (many) fascinating things about this latest global financial crisis is that there’s no single catalyst. Unlike 2008 when the carnage could be traced back to US subprime housing, or 2000 when tech stocks crashed and pulled down everything else, this time around a whole bunch of seemingly-unrelated things are unraveling all at once.
Bob Janjuah Warns The Bubble Implosion Can't Be "Fixed" This Time
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/07/2016 16:25 -0500Having correctly foreseen in September that "China's devaluations are not over yet" it appears Nomura's infamous 'bear' Bob Janjuah has also nailed The Fed's subsequent actions (hiking rates into a fundamentally weakening economy in a desperate bid to "convince markets that strong growth and inflation are on their way back"). In light of this, his latest note today should be worrisome to many as he warns the S&P 500 will trade down around 20% to 25% from current levels in H1, down to the 1500s and for dip-buyers, it's over: "I now feel even more certain that debt-driven asset bubble implosions cannot merely be 'fixed' with even more debt and another round of central bank-driven asset bubbles."
We Have Officially Run Out Of Greater Fools
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/07/2016 14:02 -0500Is there any wonder panic has returned to a "market" in which fundamental investing, long forgotten, suddenly matters once more and as we have been showing over the past 7 years - undeterred by the great Copperfieldian act put on by central banks since 2008 - the fundamentals of both the economy and the market have never been worse?
Denmark Hikes Rates As Draghi's "Hawkish" Ease Relieves Peg Pressure
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/07/2016 10:40 -0500When Mario Draghi “disappointed” markets in December by “only” cutting the depo rate by 10 bps and “merely” extending PSPP by six months while electing not to expand monthly asset purchases, the Riksbank, the Nationalbank, the Norges Bank, and the SNB all breathed heavy sighs of relief. And while we doubt the ECB is done when it comes to going "full-Krugman" (as it were), Mario Draghi’s “hawkish” ease did buy his counterparts some breathing room. Case in point: Denmark just hiked.
Gold, Bitcoin Soar After China Liquidates Most Reserves On Record To Defend Currency
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/07/2016 08:16 -0500As the PBOC revealed overnight, China’s foreign-exchange reserves plunged much more than forecast in December, capping the first-ever annual decline (of $513 billion) as authorities sought to prop up a weakening yuan. More importantly, the $108 billion decline from $3.438 trillion to $3.330 trillion - far greater than the $20 billion estimated - was the largest on record, and shows that while on the surface the Yuan was stable, behind the scenes the PBOC was furiously dumping securities to prevent an all out currency rout as outflows hit a record.





