Japan

Tyler Durden's picture

Bank of America: "Sadly, It Took World War II..."





"A flip to fiscal stimulus is the most likely catalyst for a Great Rotation out of “deflation plays” into “inflation plays”, undoubtedly the biggest investment decision of 2016. Sadly it took the New Deal and WW2 to end the dominance of “growth” over “value” in the 1930s."

 
Tyler Durden's picture

Weekend Reading: Risk - That Is All





While the world patiently waits for Janet Yellen to raise interest rates this month, the markets have been unable to decide as of yet whether such an event is good or bad thing.

 
Tyler Durden's picture

US Equity Futures Suddenly Fall Off A Cliff As Europe Slides, Oil Tumbles, EM Currencies Turmoil





It was a relatively calm overnight session in which European stocks wobbled modestly, Japan was up, China was down following its weakest fixing since 2011 as the PBOC continues to aggressively devalue since the SDR inclusion (stoking concerns capital outflows are once again surging), EM stocks stocks were weak and the dollar was unchanged ahead of today's retail sales data and next week's Fed meeting, and then suddenly everything snapped.

 
Tyler Durden's picture

Jeremy Grantham Urges "Easily Manipulated" Americans To "Become More Realistic" About World's Demise





Americans have a broad and heavy bias away from unpleasant data. We are ready to be manipulated by vested interests in finance, economics, and climate change, whose interests might be better served by our believing optimistic stuff "that just ain’t so." We are dealing today with important issues, one so important that it may affect the long-term viability of our global society and perhaps our species. It may well be necessary to our survival that we become more realistic, more willing to process the unpleasant, and, above all, less easily manipulated through our need for good news.

 
Tyler Durden's picture

Marissa Mayer's Value "Added": Yahoo Is Now Worth A Negative $13 Billion





at the beginning of the year Meyer's severance was worth $158 million. It has since declined to $60 million. During the same time the enterprise value of Yahoo's core operations, as valued by the market, has declined from negative $1 billion to negative $13 billion. Sounds like a fair trade.

 
Tyler Durden's picture

China Exports Most Deflation To The US Since The Financial Crisis





While the headline import price figure suggested there is some hope that import prices will improve at the headline level in the coming months, something else has emerged which suggests that the real importing of others' deflation is only just starting. Or rather, someone else. China.

 
Tyler Durden's picture

The Global Economic Reset Has Begun





The U.S. is now experiencing the next stage of the great reset. Two pillars were put in place on top of an already existing pillar by the central banks in order to maintain a semblance of stability after the 2008 crash.  This faux stability appears to have been necessary in order to allow time for the conditioning of the masses towards greater acceptance of globalist initiatives, to ensure the debt slavery of future generations through the taxation of government generated long term debts, and to allow for internationalists to safely position their own assets.  The three pillars are now being systematically removed by the same central bankers. Why? They are simply ready to carry on with the next stage of the controlled demolition of the American structure as we know it.

 
Tyler Durden's picture

The IMF Just Entered The Cold War, Forgives Ukraine's Debt To Russia





The IMF has now been drawn into the U.S. Cold War orbit. On Tuesday it made a radical decision to dismantle the condition that had integrated the global financial system for the past half century... By doing so, it announced its new policy: “We only enforce debts owed in US dollars to US allies.”

 
Tyler Durden's picture

The Screaming Fundamentals For Owning Gold





Gold is one of the few investments that every investor should have in their portfolio. We are now at the dangerous end-game period of a very bold but very reckless & disappointing experiment with the world's fiat (unbacked) currencies. If this experiment fails -- and we observe it's in the process of failing -- gold will provide one of the best forms of wealth insurance. But like all insurance products, it only works if you buy it before you need to rely on it.

 
Tyler Durden's picture

According To Goldman, This Will Be The Biggest Buyer Of Stocks In 2016





If you said just more of the same, with corporate management teams buying back their own stock in near record quantities (boosting their own stock-linked compensation in the process) and serving as the biggest marginal buyer in the market, then give yourself a pat on the back.

 
Tyler Durden's picture

Ever Greater Distortions Hint At Rising Crash Probabilities





Government interference by both central banks and regulators (the latter are desperately fighting the “last crisis”, bolting the barn door long after the horse has escaped, thereby putting into place the preconditions for the next crisis) has created an ever more fragile situation in both the global economy and the financial markets. As the below charts and data show, price distortions and dislocations have been moving from one market segment to the next and they keep growing, which indicates to us that there is considerable danger that a really big dislocation will eventually happen.

 
Tyler Durden's picture

China Fixes Yuan At Weakest Since August 2011 After 45th Consecutive Month Of Deflation





Chinese Producer Prices have now fallen YoY for 45 consecutive months and November's 5.9% YoY drop is the largest since the crisis in 2009. Following weak trade data overnight (and with The IMF having blessed any and all currency movements), it appears Chinese authorities have decided to do something about and continue the slowest, quietest, stealthiest currency war in the world. With today's Yuan fix, PBOC has weakened the Yuan back below the August devaluation lows, back to its weakest against the USD since August 2011. Judging by Offshore Yuan, there is a lot more weakening to come.

 
Tyler Durden's picture

Has The Fed Ever (Accurately) Predicted A Recession?





In a recent survey not a single major central bank could provide an example of an accurate “a priori” recession forecast. The silence from the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, BOE, BOJ and the Bank of Canada is deafening.

 
Tyler Durden's picture

Overflowing Global Oil Storage Leads To Soaring Supertanker Rates





Oil tanker rates soared to the highest in seven years amid an acceleration in the number of bookings and signs that the ships are being delayed when unloading due to a lack of space in on-land storage tanks. This means that day rates for 2 million-barrel carrying ships sailing to Japan from Saudi Arabia, the industry’s benchmark route, surged to $111,359, the highest since July 2008,

 
Tyler Durden's picture

Frontrunning: December 8





  • Anti-Trump Effort Launches Super PAC (WSJ)
  • Muslims decry Trump's proposal to keep them out of US (AP)
  • Debate Heats Up Over No-Fly List, Gun Sales (WSJ)
  • OPEC Takes Down Oil Majors as Lower-for-Even-Longer Kicks In (BBG)
  • Chinese Companies Are Trapped in IPO Logjam (WSJ)
  • Republican Ted Cruz vaults into first place in new Iowa poll (Reuters)
 
Syndicate content
Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!