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7 Reasons Why Oil Could Fall Even Lower Before Christmas

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/21/2015 15:10 -0400

Oil's hope for a bottom anytime soon appears to stand Snow White's chance in hell of coming true. Seventy-eight years after Walt Disney released the first full-length animated feature, and seven factors in today’s crude complex are dwarfing crude prices.

Step Aside Gold: There Is Something Else The Hedge Fund Community Hates Even More

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/21/2015 14:51 -0400

While the fear and loathing of gold by the "smart money" and central banks has been extensively documented in recent years, another asset class is emerging as the "most hated" within the speculator community: treasurys, or rather, duration.

The Recession And Bear Market Of 2016, In Two Charts

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/21/2015 14:30 -0400

Janet, where is your accelerating economy?

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The Real "Death Cross" Of Oil Markets

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/21/2015 14:15 -0400

The 'death cross' of these two energy market indicators is all one needs to know about the oil market...

Is This The Missing Scene From The American Version Of Star Wars?

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/21/2015 14:00 -0400

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Do Not Show Fed's Lockhart This Chart

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/21/2015 13:54 -0400

There's this - *LOCKHART: FED RATE RISE WAS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN U.S. ECONOMY

And then there's the market's reaction to this "vote of confidence."

RANsquawk week ahead video: Markets are expected to be relatively light as markets get ready for the Christmas break

Submitted by RANSquawk Video on 12/21/2015 12:24 -0400

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The Federal Reserve Will Hand Out $11 Billion In Riskless "Profits" To Foreign Banks In 2016

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/21/2015 12:55 -0400

So there you have it: a riskless "profit" handout for foreign banks, subsidized by the most famous US "public" institution - the Federal Reserves - amounting to approximately $11 billion in just one year.

We Are Now Entering The "Discovery" Phase Of Financial Collapse

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/21/2015 13:19 -0400

We now enter the “discovery” phase of financial collapse, where things labeled “capital” and “credit” turn out to be mere holograms. It’s not just the Federal Reserve; everything around us is backed into a corner as the rude discovery that capital is not what it has appeared to be is now underway, with the power to derail political systems and societies.

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S&P Gives Up Gains As High-Yield Bonds Break Bad Again

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/21/2015 12:37 -0400

Following a brief dead-cat-bounce into The Fed's policy error, high-yield bonds are once again being sold for the 3rd day in a row, filling the gap-up from last week. This reality - among others - is weighing on US equities as The S&P just gave up all its Monday morning "stocks are up and they should be" gains.

Central Banks Have Pushed The Middle Class Down Into Neofeudal Serfdom

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/21/2015 12:31 -0400

If a person is unable to earn enough to save, and is unable to compete with financiers and corporations for productive assets, that person is a modern-day serf, a debt-serf indentured to banks and stripped of opportunities to own the sort of assets the Financial Nobility use to accumulate ever-greater wealth and income. The injustice of this central-bank enforced neofeudalism cannot be suppressed like interest rates.

The BoJ Just Promised To Buy $2.5 Billion In Make-Believe ETFs: What It Means For Japanese Corporates

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/21/2015 12:11 -0400

“These kinds of ETFs don’t exist now. Using capital spending as a factor in deciding what goes in an ETF is quite unusual. I think the message from the BOJ is for us to go out and make them.”

Azerbaijan Currency Crashes 50% As Crude Contagion Spreads

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/21/2015 11:26 -0400

OPEC blowback continues to ripple around the world. With Russia's Ruble pushing back towards record lows against the USD, and Kazakhstan's Tenge having tumbled to record lows, the writing was on the wall for Azerbaijan. As Bloomberg reports, the third-biggest oil producer in the former Soviet Union moved to a free float on Monday and the manat crashed almost 50% instantly to its weakest on record with the second devaluation this year.

And Then There Were 12... Lindsey Graham "Suspends" Presidential Campaign Due To Lack Of "Buzz"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/21/2015 11:14 -0400

The Fed's Confidence Game Is Ending

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/21/2015 11:06 -0400

The Fed seems to have been operating on the theory that their own views on the economy determine its path. But recently the Fed has taken the principle to an extreme never seen. Yellen may well have just hiked rates expecting, hoping, that the mere act of showing confidence in the economy would produce an economy worthy of confidence. The Fed has dominated the narrative for years now, investors and traders hanging on every word. Last week that started to change, the market repudiating the Fed’s outlook over a 48 hour period that must have produced some second guessing at the Fed.