Category: Financial Crash
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Fourth Largest Investment Bank Bankrupt as Barclays Pulls Out From Lehman's Bet / Companies / Financial Crash
By: Mike_Shedlock
High Stakes Poker Update: Barclays Refuses To Go "All In" - Following is an update on the High Stakes Poker Game involving Lehman (LEH), Merrill Lynch (MER), J.P. Morgan Chase (JPM), Goldman Sachs (GS), Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC), Barclays, and others. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Perverse US Dollar Rally Prelude to Financial System Collapse / Interest-Rates / Financial Crash
By: Jim_Willie_CB
More crucial than ever, observers must take the broader perspective that avoids overhearing the party on Wall Street. They know not what they celebrate. It is their demise. They rejoice over the collapse of mortgage bonds and now the mortgage centrifuge with a big fat fanny. They rejoice over collapse of Lehman Brothers. They rejoice over the disaster du jour offered at the financial lunch table. In the past two months, a remarkable sequence of events has taken place regarding US$-based bonds. They have been called home , a demand to be brought back to US shores. Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, September 07, 2008
The End of Fannie and Freddie Pushes PIMCO into Deep Trouble! / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Mick_Phoenix
Welcome to the Weekly Report. This week we look at the end of Fannie and Freddie and ponder why PIMCO are screaming for help.
Regular readers may have noticed that the Weekly Report hasn't been available on the excellent Safehaven.com or The Market Oracle since July. Nothing sinister to report, I just thought that subscribers deserved a bit of added value and some excellent TA on the direction of gold.
Sunday, September 07, 2008
Paulson Moves to Prevent Financial System Collapse / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Mike_Shedlock
The GSE deal has been announced. Here is the Statement by Secretary Paulson on Treasury and FHFA Action to Protect Financial Markets and Taxpayers . The title of the statement suggests two things.
1. This agreement will not reduce risk on the financial markets
2. This agreement will not protect the taxpayer
Let's take a look at excerpts to see how long it takes to verify that cynicism.
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
US Financial System in Crisis as Government Hides the Truth to Prevent Bond Market Panic / Interest-Rates / Financial Crash
By: Money_and_Markets
Martin Weiss writes: With America's economy sinking rapidly into recession, with much of America's financial system teetering on the brink, and with a presidential election just three months from today, our leaders in Washington are under siege.
What are they saying behind closed doors? What worst-case scenarios are they contemplating? What contingency measures are they debating?
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Misplaced Stock Market Optimism Signals Crash Potential / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Captain_Hook
As discussed in previous commentary, despite the dire realities affecting the global economy, it appears investors are not heeding the warnings. Sure, some people are paralyzed like a deer in the headlights, where you can't blame them if they are just waking up to the reality of what lies before us. However, these still appear to be the few, with most still in denial concerning future prospects for the economy and markets. This is evidenced in gold and silver's sluggish performance of late. It should be doing far better as an alternative, but again, the public does not see the need to buy it yet. Can you blame them however, with the incessant cheerleading and gaming that the media (CNBC in particular) pawns off as analysis? Exposed long enough to this kind of thing it's bound to have an effect – that's just common sense. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, July 18, 2008
Asian Stocks and Gold as Protection Against US Bond Market Collapse / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Money_and_Markets
Larry Edelson writes: With all heck breaking loose in our economy — banks and mortgage companies failing, real estate prices still falling, GM, Ford, Chrysler and virtually the entire airline industry all but officially bankrupt — can you now see why I've been a staunch advocate of gold?
I'm sure you can, and if you've been following my recommendations, you should be very happy indeed.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Stock Market Fear Building as Investors Rush for the Exit / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Brian_Bloom
The chart below shows a serious breakdown, but the horizontal count target has already been met. The chart should pull back up before finally making up its mindRead full article... Read full article...
Monday, July 07, 2008
How to Survive and Profit From the NEXT Financial Markets Panic / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Money_and_Markets
Martin Weiss writes: Dad was probably the only advisor who helped his clients make a fortune in the great bear market of the 1930s ... and then lived to do it again in the Crash of '87. Before he passed away, he walked me through some of the darkest lessons of America's financial history. And he gave me some valuable advice to share with you when the next financial panic is near.
"When another collapse is about to begin," he warned, "they're not going to ring any bells. Few investors will see it coming, fewer still will take protective action, and almost everyone will get caught in the melee. Don't let that happen to our subscribers!"
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Friday, July 04, 2008
Recent Hindenburg Stock Market Crash Omen / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Robert_McHugh_PhD
So what is a Hindenburg Omen? It is the alignment of several technical factors that measure the underlying condition of the stock market — specifically the NYSE — such that the probability that a stock market crash occurs is higher than normal , and the probability of a severe decline is quite high. This Omen has appeared before all of the stock market crashes, or panic events, of the past 22 years. All of them. No panic sell-off occurred over the past 22 years without the presence of a Hindenburg Omen. Another way of looking at it is, without a confirmed Hindenburg Omen, we are pretty safe . But we have one as of June 16th, 2008. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Dow Stock Market Crash and Iran War Herald End of US Dollar Hegemony / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Alex_Wallenwein
The June 2008 Dow Crash and the coming first strike attack on Iran herald the end of dollar hegemony.
They say that pictures speak a thousand words, so let's start this with a picture: Today, the Dow crashed through its eight-year support level at 11,750. There isn't much below now to keep it from dropping all the way back down to the 7,500-range. What that will do to American investor psychology and worse, consumer confidence, and therefore spending, and therefore the economy, is only too apparent.
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Stock Markets Can Crash When Central Bankers Clash / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Gary_Dorsch
Hyper-inflation in the commodities markets is rivaling the US housing collapse and the global banking crisis, as the biggest threat to the world economy. Finance ministers from the United States, Canada, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Britain, and Russia, have expressed their alarm over the doubling of agricultural, energy, and key raw material prices from a year ago, which is pushing inflation rates around the world, to their highest in three decades. Crude oil briefly touched $140 a barrel, and the price of corn, used to make ethanol, hit $8 /bushel. Chinese steelmakers agreed to pay 96% more for Iron ore from Australian miner Rio Tinto, a five-fold increase since 2003. Steel prices have soared almost 50%, this year, as coal and iron ore prices continue to climb and global demand shows little sign of abating. Dow Chemical is raising prices on a wide range of its products by 25%, due to sharply higher energy and raw material costs.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
We May be Facing a Fall Stock Market Disaster / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Michael_Swanson
It has been almost ten full months now since the Fed first lowered interest rates. If you remember at first there was a lot excitement over the Fed cuts. The DOW and Nasdaq rallied to new 52-week highs a few weeks after the first rate cut in September. The rally and promise of more Fed intervention for the market made many big name commentators extremely optimistic about the market.
But just a few weeks later the market turned lower and has been stuck in a bear market ever since. The banking problems multiplied and inflation skyrocketed with oil rising almost double in price now from where it was a year ago. The rate cuts tasted good at first, but are no longer palatable.
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
RBS Predicts Worldwide Stock Market Crash / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: William_Patalon_III
As rocky as the global markets have been, the worst is yet to come, the Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (ADR: RBS ) warns.
RBS analysts have warned clients to brace for a full-blown crash in the global stock-and-bond markets over the next three months as the conflicting realities of slowing growth and rising inflation paralyze the world's major central banks - causing “all the chickens [to] come home to roost,” Great Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper reported.
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
BIS Warns of Great Depression and Royal Bank Of Scotland Issues Stock Market Crash Alert / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Mark_OByrne
Gold UpdateGold closed at $8 8 4 .20 in New York yesterday and was up $ 1.0 0 and silver closed at $1 7. 05, down 19 cents. Since then gold has again traded in a range between $880 and $890 in Asia n and in early European trading this morning .
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Seven Ominous Crises: How to Protect Your Portfolio and Profit! / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Money_and_Markets
Sean Brodrick writes: Many of the investment trends I talk about tend to play out over an extended period of time — for example, the long-term price gains in food and energy. But I see at least seven different crises that could rock your world over the next 12 months.
My intention is not to scare you. I simply want to raise your awareness today, and give you different ways you can profitably hedge your portfolio against these threats.
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Monday, March 17, 2008
Gold: The Leading Indicator of Systemic Financial Collapse / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Darryl_R_Schoon
Falling Dominoes Rising Gold - The failure of Windows Vista to improve upon Microsoft's accepted standard is an indication that an era is ending. Another indication—just as obvious and far more significant— US central bank credit is no longer automatically able to create economic expansion. Suddenly, cheap credit does not produce growth. An era is over.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Beware a Parabolic Rise Culminates in Market Crash / Interest-Rates / Financial Crash
By: Brian_Bloom
If I have learned one thing in the 40 odd years that I have been watching the markets, it is this: Parabolic rises culminate in crashes. It's a biological phenomenon. The crowd stampedes, or the population explodes, or prices rise with geometrically increasing rapidity – to the point where the rate of increase can no longer be sustained. Because thought paradigms don't change readily, behaviour at the individual level does not adapt appropriately to circumstances and, therefore, behavioural modification is “forced” by the environment. The environment is not able/prepared to tolerate the excessive growth – and the growth collapses in on itself. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Stock Market Imminent Panic / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Captain_Hook
Finding Religion Is Not Necessarily An Uplifting ExperienceUninformed odds players are calling a bottom on the stock market citing extreme technical and sentiment related readings. It's too bad they are not history students as well, but that was the boring and unnecessary elective in school most declined to take seriously. These dip buyers are about to learn a very expensive lesson in my opinion, as in terms of market internals and sentiment, we are currently poised for a crash of potentially monumental proportions. Finding religion will have a new meaning for these guys afterwards as their futures become more uncertain, and their appreciation for gold should be raised a notch or two as well as a panic attack shakes some trees. This is when we expect the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) take out closing basis triple top resistance at 31 on its way to 45, and perhaps beyond.
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Investors Gripped by Fear of Potential Financial Markets Meltdown / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Dr_William_R_Swagell
Scared? You Should Be.
I wonder if any member of the Federal Reserve almost choked on his barbecued brisket when world financial markets threatened to go into meltdown while Wall Street was closed over the Martin Luther King Holiday.
On “ Black Tuesday ” January 22nd, 2008 world markets crashed...Australia down 7%, Japan down 5.7%, Shanghai down 7.2%, Jakarta down 7.7%, Hang Seng down 8.7%, FTSE down 5.5%, Paris and Frankfurt down 7%. These drops were on top of earlier falls since January 1st which had Germany down 19%, London down 13%, Hong Kong down 13%, Japan down 16% and saw Emerging Markets also hit by double-digit losses. The Australian market was down a bruising 24% from its high last November.
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