Frontrunning: August 28
Stock Halts Added to Monday’s Market Chaos (WSJ)Fed Up Investors Yank Cash From Almost Everything Just Like 2008 (BBG)Drop in Stock Futures Signal Halt to S&P 500's Relief Rally (BBG) - at least...
View ArticleRigor Mortis Of The Robo-Machines
Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,Call it the rigor mortis of the robo-machines. About 430 days ago the S&P 500 crossed the 1973 mark for the first time - the same point where it...
View ArticleTrump: The Art Of The Bureaucrat
Submitted by Doug French via Mises Canada,Donald Trump says America’s problems are managerial. The political class is “stupid,” and “horrible negotiators.” He can fix the country’s problems...
View ArticleChanos Vs Icahn: Famous Short-Seller Goes After Icahn's LNG Exporting...
Almost exactly one month ago, on August 6, Carl Icahn filed a 13-D revealing that he had built up a 19.4 million, or 8.2%, stake in US natural gas exporter Cheniere Energy (LNG), a position he had...
View ArticleMom And Pop "Will Probably Get Trampled": Alliance Bernstein Warns On Bond...
Right up until China threw the financial world into a frenzy by devaluing the yuan right smack in the middle of a stock market meltdown that Beijing was struggling to contain, bond market liquidity was...
View Article"Activists" Misleading Ownership Stakes & Suspect "Positioning" Strategies
Submitted by Dominique Dassault of GlobalSlantSomething Is Very Wrong Here"Activist Investors", the relatively new classification for corporate agitators, want you to believe that their intellectual...
View ArticleSoros, Icahn And Major New Players Rushing Into Gold: "Things Are In The...
Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com,The price of gold and silver is set to explode according to one of the most well known CEO’s in the precious metals mining space.Keith Neumeyer, the CEO of one...
View ArticleUS Futures Resume Tumble, Commodities Slide As Chinese "Hard-Landing" Fears...
It was all about China once again, where following a report of a historic layoff in which China's second biggest coal producer Longmay Group fired an unprecedented 100,000 or 40% of its workforce,...
View ArticleFrontrunning: September 28
Headline winner: "Read Beyond Massive Job-Cuts Headlines: Labor Market Is Fine" (BBG)And speaking of lies: The More Yellen Talks Up Inflation, the Less Traders Believe Her (BBG)How Some Investors Get...
View ArticleTrump Promises To Cut Middle-Class Taxes, Gets Carl Icahn Endorsement - Live...
Republican presidential nominee front-runner Donald Trump, amid massively variant poll numbers (Fox >40%, WSJ ~21%?), plans to unveil his tax plan today, that, as WSJ reports, would eliminate income...
View Articlehttp://info.goldcore.com/how-to-store-gold-bullion-the-seven-key-must-haves-i...
This is a very important story and shows how China and Russia are increasingly close and strong allies who are flexing their muscles and asserting themselves as rival superpowers to the U.S. The...
View ArticleCarl Icahn Says Market "Way Overpriced", Warns "God Knows Where This Is Going"
To be sure, no one ever accused Carl Icahn of being shy and earlier this year he had a very candid sitdown with Larry Fink at whom Icahn leveled quite a bit of sharp (if good natured) criticism related...
View ArticleCarl Icahn Darling Chesapeake Energy Fires 15% Of Its Workforce
Remember when the commodity and gas plunge was supposed to be an "unambiguously good" tailwind for discretionary US spending, something which we warned over and over would never happen as the Obamacare...
View ArticleBofA Issues Dramatic Junk Bond Meltdown Warning: This "Train Wreck Is...
On Tuesday, Carl Icahn reiterated his feelings about the interplay between low interest rates, HY credit, and ETFs. The self-feeding dynamic that Icahn described earlier this year and outlined again...
View ArticleFor The "Nothing Is Happening... Everything Is Awesome" Crowd
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,A lot of people out there expected something to happen in September that did not ultimately happen. There were all kinds of wild theories...
View ArticleJapanese Pension Funds Find New Ways To Lose Money, Will Blow Retirement...
Following yesterday's collapse in the Nikkei, when a 4% drop pushed it red for the year below 17,000, down 20% from a high of 21,000 hit just over a month ago, we had just one question for Japan's...
View ArticleOct 1 - Fed's Dudley: Will Make Sure QE Withdrawal Won't Roil Markets
Follow The Market Madness with Voice and Text on FinancialJuiceEMOTION MOVING MARKETS NOW: 24/100 EXTREME FEARPREVIOUS CLOSE: 12/100 EXTREME FEARONE WEEK AGO: 31/100 FEARONE MONTH AGO: 14/100 EXTREME...
View ArticleWeekend Reading: Capacious Cognitions
Submitted by Lance Roberts via STA Wealth Management,This past week saw the markets retest its lows. So far, those lows have held for now but the deterioration in market internals suggests that the...
View ArticleHere Come The Money Helicopters!
Submitted by Bill Bonner of Bonner & Partners (anntated by Acting-Man.com's Pater Tenebrarum),$10 Trillion Goes to Money HeavenWe interrupt our series on what to do if you have no money to bring...
View ArticleGundlach Explains Why The Market Hasn't Crashed Yet: "People Are Holding And...
One week ago, after Carl Icahn joined the legion of doomsayers launched in mid-September by none other than the former "balls to the wall" bull David Tepper, we wondered who would be next:But what does...
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