Category Archives: Flight to Safety
We Just Witnessed The Biggest U.S. Bond Crash In Nearly 2 Years – What Does This Mean For The Stock Market?
via the economic collapse blog Be prepared for the next great transfer of wealth. Buy physical silver and storable food. U.S. bonds have not fallen like this since Donald Trump’s stunning election victory in November 2016. Could this be a sign that big trouble is on the horizon for the stock market? It seems like […]
US Futures Rebound Sharply, Erase All Syrian Airstrike Losses
After initially tumbling in the aftermath of the U.S. missile attack on Syria which jolted financial markets, boosting haven assets and temporarily shifting investor focus from today’s jobs data , S&P futures have managed to recoup all losses (the Nikkei closed up 0.4% after sliding earlier in the session), with Europe also just fractionally lower […]
SNB Spent $68 Billion On Currency Manipulation In 2016
While Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed his displeasure with China for manipulating its currency, he appears to have recently figured out that over the past 2 years Beijing has been spending hundreds of billions in dollar to strengthen, not weaken, the Yuan and to halt the ~$1 trillion in capital flight from China. But while […]
David Tepper Asks “Why Are Stocks And Bonds Acting So Differently”
With bond and stock markets having recently bifurcated, signalling two distinctly different outlooks on the future of the reflation trade, the confusion among the “smartest money” persists. Close up this looks even more divergent. Friday was the 6th day in a row that The Dow and the Long Bond have risen in price together… […]
Global Stocks Drop, Futures Flat; French Yields Slide As Political Jitters Subside
In a quiet night for markets, in which the top highlight was the Oscar’s historic peddling of best picture “fake news” and where “millions” of Academy members seemingly voted illegally, European stocks were little changed after a selloff that pushed them to a two-week low, while the MSCI Asia index fells as Japan’s Topix dropped […]