Signs Of Financial Turmoil Are Brewing In Europe, China And The United States
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,As we move toward the second half of 2015, signs of financial turmoil are appearing all over the globe. In Greece, a full blown bank run is...
View ArticleMore and More Warn That a Crash is Coming
More and more insiders are warning of a potential systemic event.The first sign of real trouble concerned a number of investment legends choosing to close shop and return investors’ capital.The first...
View ArticleThe "Smart Money" Just Sold The Most Stocks In History
Last week, following the Fed's latest rate hike punt, stocks soared higher after realizing that not only is the Fed not ready to hike, but it will almost certainly not hike in September nor December...
View ArticleStunned Investors See NFLX Stock Split Gains Eviscerated As Icahn Exits
You just can't make this up...*ICAHN SAYS SOLD LAST OF OUR $NFLX TODAY. Sold last of our $NFLX today. Believe $AAPL currently represents same opportunity we stated NFLX offered several years ago.— Carl...
View ArticleCarl Icahn Says "Market Is Extremely Overheated", Slams Permabulls
Just because Carl Icahn expect AAPL stocks to still double from here (even as he found numerous greater fools to sell all of his NFLX stock to, the kind of fools who think a stock split adds to value)...
View ArticleCarl Icahn Crushes CNBC's Perma-"Buy Stocks"-Bull$hitness
We suspect this will be the last time billionaire investor Carl Icahn is invited on CNBC. Having sold CNBC darling NFLX, he crushed the two main memes of CNBC's raison d'etre - buy stocks, because...
View ArticleIcahn Frets, Fed Threats & Greek Regrets Send Stocks Sliding
It had to be this... Between Carl Icahn's frets over bubbles, Fed threats over rate hikes no matter what, and Greek regrets over unacceptable EU creditor terms, stocks just could not hold on to hope...
View ArticleFrontrunning: June 25
This headline needs updating: Creditors set bailout ultimatum for defiant Greeks (Reuters)Greece’s Fragile Banks Leave Alexis Tsipras Few Options in Bailout Talks (WSJ)Dueling Greece Plans Presented as...
View ArticleThe Last Time This Happened In Credit, Bernanke Unleashed QE3
While Carl Icahn's latest ramblings have brought attention to the'bubble' in high-yield debt, we would note that the HY market has already dramatically diverged from the ongoing bubble in US equities...
View ArticleIcahn Vs. Fink: Wall Street Legends Clash Over "Dangerous" ETFs
In the interest of not burying the lead, so to speak, we'll begin with a clip from this week's Delivering Alpha conference. In it, Carl Icahn essentially rehashes everything we've said over the past...
View ArticleWall Street Prepares To Reap Billions From Another Main Street Wipe Out
On Monday evening, we noted that market participants are reducing the size of their trades and turning to derivatives in order to avoid the perils associated with what are increasingly illiquid...
View ArticleIs This Why Hillary Clinton Just Went Nuclear On Short-Term Capital Gains Tax?
In her second economic speech as a Presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton is set to take on the "tyranny of the next earnings report," a nod to the destructive myopia and pervasive foolishness that...
View ArticleThe Investment Legends Are Warning of a Systemic Event
More and more insiders are warning of a potential systemic event.The first sign of real trouble concerned a number of investment legends choosing to close shop and return investors’ capital.The first...
View ArticleETF Trading Volume Eclipses US GDP
In "signs of the coming financial apocalypse" news, ETF trading has now eclipsed US GDP. You read that correctly. Here’s Bloomberg: In the past 12 months investors traded $18.2 trillion worth of ETF...
View Article"No Brainer" AAPL Enters Correction, Down 12% From Recent Highs To 6-Month Lows
Having broken its 200DMA earlier this morning, selling pressure has continued in the "as goes AAPL, so goes the US economy market" stock. Now down almost 12% from earnings exuberance, AAPL is in...
View ArticleCarl Icahn "Accepts Donald Trump's Offer For Secretary Of Treasury"
Has Carl been drinking? 1/3 After last night’s debate I decided to accept @realDonaldTrump offer for Secretary of Treasury.— Carl Icahn (@Carl_C_Icahn) August 7, 20152/3 Seriously, the methods of...
View ArticleAAPL Is No Longer The "Most Important Stock": Presenting The Top 50 Hedge...
Earlier today we observed that in a world in which central banks have implicitly banned risk with their actions over the past 7 years, hedging long exposure is meaningless (and when central banks do...
View ArticleiCrash? AAPL Down 6% In Pre-Open, Breaks Below "No Brainer" $100 Level
Paging Carl Icahn... AAPL shares just broke below $100 in the pre-open, the lowest since late October. As a reminder, 181 hedge funds own AAPL... "Smart" Money?
View Article"They're Getting Away With Murder": Trump Blasts "Paper-Pushing Hedge Fund...
A couple of weeks ago, Carl Icahn took to Twitter to “accept” Donald Trump’s offer to become Secretary of Treasury should America, in a fit of extreme frustration with business as usual inside the...
View ArticleFreeport-McMoRan Up Nearly 50% Today After Carl Icahn Goes Activist,...
One of the biggest casualties of the Chinese economic crash, and the resultant collapse in copper prices to 6 year lows, has been Phoenix-based copper mining giant Freeport-McMoRan, whose stock had...
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