Category Archives: Risk Management
LFIN Crashes After-Hours When CEO Admits “We Don’t Deserve This Market Cap”
Update: Much to his credit, Venkat Meenavalli, the CEO of LongFin ventured onto CNBC's FastMoney tonight to explain the exponential rise and somewhat shady acquisition strategy of his company. Amid an increasingly rapid eruption of words and rising volume, Meenavalli seemed to struggle to convince the Fast Money skeptics that what he did was above-board, […]
Axel Merk’s 2018 Outlook: “What Can Possibly Go Wrong?”
Authored by Axel Merk via MerkInvestments.com, With the stock market and Bitcoin reaching all-time highs, what can possibly go wrong? In offering my thoughts on 2018, I see my role in reminding investors to stress test their portfolios. Is your portfolio built of straw, sticks or brick? First, let me allege many investors have portfolios […]
JPMorgan’s Outlook For 2018: “Eat, Drink And Be Merry, For In 2019…”
While the prevailing outlook by the big banks for 2018 and onward has been predominantly optimsitic and in a few euphoric cases, “rationally exuberant“, with most banks forecasting year-end S&P price targets around 2800 or higher, and a P/E of roughly 20x as follows… Bank of Montreal, Brian Belski, 2,950, EPS $145.00, P/E 20.3x UBS, […]
Citi’s Shocking Admission: “There Is A Growing Fear Among Central Bankers They’ve Lost Control”
Earlier we showed a variation on a VIX chart from Citi’s Hans Lorenzen which, if it doesn’t impress, or scare you, then nothing probably will. However, leaving readers unimpressed – and unscared – will not satisfy Lorenzen, which is why the credit strategist who works together with the godfather of rational doom, Matt King, and […]
There Is Only One Empire: Finance
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Any nation-state that meets these four requirements is fully exposed to a global loss of faith in its economy, debt, balance of payments and currency. There's an entire sub-industry in journalism devoted to the idea that China is poised to replace the U.S. as the "global empire" […]