aedens wrote:
4. Destabilization <-------- here we are please deny it for amusement only
So can you give me your thoughts in ZIRP? Everyone else is talking Singularity and I am a little more worried about the next 18 mos. than Skynet. (Caliphate is real risk but that's me and AnnB)
So from our favorite site ZH:
As a result of the severe decline in real activity and subdued inflation, short-term Treasury rates fall to negative ½ percent by mid-2016 and remain at that level through the end of the scenario.
And we see already JPN 10yr went neg and no bid. In other countries folk either invest in real estate (Denmark Bubble), or take money out or possibly Bitcoin. I am finding in EU the common guy doesn't think about PM's.
It seems anywhere you could store you savings would be risk/loss.
As before In Hilferding’s view, the banks not only financed the industrial expansion of capitalism into dependent and colonial territories, but also restrained competition between capitalists and financed their cartels. If crises arose, they were due to disproportions in production and class struggles. By stabilising the markets and finances of the capitalists in their cartels, banks were able to shift the costs of those crises onto non-cartelised capitalists. Because it concentrates control over industry, finance capital facilitates the eventual socialisation of the means of production.
Hilferding Finance Capital A Study of the Latest Phase of Capitalist Development, edited and introduced by Tom Bottomore, translated by Morris Watnick and Sam Gordon, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 198,1 chapters 20 and 25.
Basically the legal cartels asserted themselves from the recent unproductive capital forces to actual market demand.
I will repost the findings from the magna carta period notes we forwarded also as social usury issues.
It will take time to note and thus garner the recent positions as we witnessed hayek and keynes again on the "timing" , or to say mitigation processes. I consider in my view alone, the mitigation processes are the painfull things just seen... by others.... again.
Vin had a observation on Sat Aug 13, 2011 6:51 am - on movements percentages.
My view seen was an exhaustion gap comes at the end of an impulsive move. The exhaustion gap has an abnormal pickup in volume and then reverses sharply. An exhaustion gap will occur after an earnings announcement or news release. This final blow off brings enormous public attention and increased trading activity. This event provides professional traders and institutions the opportunity to close out large positions.
I agree Vin on the papers premise but reference it to gap and null. Null as in chasing Alpha in beta bear markets events. I will wait since beta players are in play. Regulators can instill discipline over conviction. Let the organized property rights quest of puts and calls sort it out. The standard deviation event I will concede since we are looking at the same coin heads or tails. I would think to say the pressure points are out of our pay scale as we already know. We still need x amount day to day so as we note it is a demographic balance to serve the Customer. Assume to stay long minded but never stop looking for quality trends in contracts and innovation. We know pent demand exists but policy and over all ethics are the divide.
I feel the Fed basically conveyed bullet points to our onservation.
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2&p=9163&hilit=repression#p9163
It will sum up to calculating the “financial repression tax,” more specifically, the annual “liquidation rate”
Old had a good comment as the bombs where dropping on the guy trying to negate some really things.
The opine on some tangents lets say. Things can work for the better for those who wander here and there so
we will have to wait and see. Not to worried about it since what should be and what is can be difficult. http://www.garynorth.com/public/10310.cfm
Higgenbotham wrote:Today the technology favors decentralization in many respects but the politics and economics are not adjusting and collapse is the result. Large complex organizations can be replicated due to greater raw computing power and less need for manpower and physical infrastructure. The computing power can be used to link the various parts. This may be the primary reason the Eurozone was a failure as constructed. The US situation is now similar. The function of the Fed can be replicated and tailored to local economies. Local currencies can be issued and managed according to those needs. The currencies can be computer linked at a central hub. The national currency would be used to interface at the borders. It could be a basket of regional currencies. The Euro need be no different. The Eurozone ignored the external forces and is paying the price. The US can ride on the Euro collapse for awhile but the reality doesn't change; it becomes more obvious.
If understood correctly, GDP can grow through expansion of population and resource usage to create output, increases in efficiency, or temporary increases in debt that are beyond the naturally constrained level of output. Our so called growth now appears to be entirely of the third category - temporary increases in debt. The ceiling has now been hit and the ratings agencies are calling a halt. US births peaked in the 1957 to 1961 time frame and since then the government has been trying to artifically maintain the birth rate decline through an open border and illegal immigration policy. If the economy continues to deteriorate, continuation of that policy will likely lead to civil unrest which will then render another quick fix unproductive on the whole. In addition to being population constrained, the US is also resource constrained as domestic oil production has declined for decades and the aquifers deplete as we are all aware. The use of debt to maintain output and status quo has limited the ability of the private sector to go down the only remaining road available to increase real output, which is increases in efficiency. .
Well I have gone back and been reading your work from 2009 and including OLD and Higgenbotham. It is quite interesting since it was then as it is now displayed openly. I think you 3 should start a blog which is more helpful than ZH at many times. Perhaps hindsight makes clarity.
Regarding AnnB I generally agree with GN in ramification. Still finding so far AB warnings made in clarity are now becoming obvious. My fear is that more will be correct as this trend develops and as stated so well in Higg post. Combined with JX I foresee that 40 head and a day on the horse is becoming preferred before it all ends and we move to the next chapter (which is a much longer one at lest for those exiting stage right - those fortunate few)
That effect would detract from a simple virtue since it would dilute reason. The emphasis, or to say generational underpinnigs as we forwarded before is they see the light and run back to the shackles by themselves. To the pagans it is a shackled thought of Elenchus, a form of cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presumptions. It is a dialectical method, often involving a discussion in which the defense of one point of view is questioned; one participant may lead another to contradict themselves in some way, thus weakening the defender's point. To defer, one may say "pocess" does not change the moral polemics since the weight will impose the margin to the dialectic they sieze to maintain what they consider control. Later we read that Aristotle attributed to Socrates the discovery of the method of definition and induction. Basically economic hit men took out Socratic facts in moral bankruptcy. Robin Waterfield suggested as I read rather clearly it represented the social conflict between two generations of men in Athens, especially in the decade from 425 to 415 BC. We mentioned also before as are living it real time. He also suggests that the divide between those in favor of the Athenian invasion of Sicily and those opposed was largely a generational divide. Eisenhower pointed this out also and yes, Jack would get my Vote and Martin would be my Paster as would Dietrich. Hume was more direct to affairs and castigated incorrectly also for a brief period of time also. The GD and GGS per se narratives are not off the shelf ward robes since it understands consensus and pivital dynamics clearly. If they wish to render it to a rhetorical tool box they impose a well deserved bent of mind as warned before.
Acts 17:23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god.
So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship--and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.
Later in Acts we read ---- For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead."
We suggest only in His time it will be thus so.
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No patch for you. Before you seen, it was already so.
Kulturkampf: Bismarck’s measures and opposed him effectively in the German parliament, where they doubled their representation in the 1874 elections. Bismarck, a pragmatist, decided to retreat. He conceded that many of the measures were excessive and served only to strengthen the resistance of the Centre Party, whose support he needed for his new thrust against the Social Democrats. The advent of a new pope in 1878 eased compromise. By 1887, when Leo XIII declared the conflict over, most of the anti-Catholic legislation had been repealed or reduced in severity. The struggle had the consequence of assuring state control over education and public records, but it also alienated a generation of Roman Catholics from German national life.
Final exam question, why. Answer, because.
Just as the christos and druidic before had been outlawed by the pagans.
In 60CE the death of Prasutagus precipitated the events that led to the rebellion bearing his wife’s name. Existing Celtic language legal references, as well as foreign commentaries, all seem to indicate more legal rights for women than was offered by Roman law. Prasutagus attempted to include his wife in his inheritance, showing he, and his people, had not embraced the Roman law and could even be construed as being a snub to the Empire. This is not proof of the druid still as essential members of society and decision makers, but the fact that he tried to include his wife as even partial legal right to the property and power is strong evidence that the old ways were not jettisoned completely.
His wife, Boudicca intended to honour the treaty, but after the local Roman authorities seized Prasatugas's property and raped his two daughters, Boudicca retaliated by signing a treaty with Trinovantes who were hostile to the Romans.
But if this is so it is certainly remarkable that for four hundred years the peculiarity of the tree has been preserved and transmitted to its progeny. The legend that the original tree grew from the staff of St. Joseph of Arimathea, which was thrust into the ground and took root, is found before the destruction of the abbey, but the date of its origin cannot now be ascertained. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06579a.htm
As a pome decendant who escaped, we thank you.
A Tufts University study found the TPP will cost nearly 450,000 American jobs in the next nine years. Today it was signed.
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aedens wrote:We are enthralled at your civic choices.
water, wheat, and weather
Many past civilizations have turned on those items. In any case I must be off for a while so will read you posts and try to absorb what it is that you are saying. Perhaps I can return with a little more knowledge but no promises on wisdom!
Have you ever thought that Martin might have been wrong? Does it matter in front of the Judge or is grounding in youth too powerful to overcome when called away to better paths? It is critical training in youth before old age and habits set in.
I have family in metd so wisdom from above at a elected level is limited in scope and scale to date.
Locally we had some wins to keep widows in there homes as the predators moved in and no, not all of
our State issues have been failures.
Orestes Brownson went even further when he wrote: Democratic or democratically inclined governments are,
for the most part, cruel and hard-hearted. Like corporations, they have no souls and are incapable of tenderness.
Deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.
Bureaucracy destroys initiative.
Amos is still correct.
St. Gregory of Nazianzus sums up in a sentence the rule to be followed in such cases: it is mere rashness to seek death,
but it is cowardly to refuse it.
The trench warfare enters a new phase. As we seen the blood moon set off what we already seen coming from the script.
quaetus eorum avaritia - Amos 9:1
As we noted the book into 2018 will be what not but who.
As before it was written “Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life.” Job
Assad indeed is a genocidal monster and he will answer for what was done on the Creators foot stool we draw breath by is mercy alone.
WEF: Five Mln Jobs Likely To Be Erased In 5 Years
World Bank Downgrades Global Growth Outlook As Emerging Economies Slacken
Global Earnings Downgrades Haven't Been This Bad in Seven Years
Citi's Global Earnings Revision Index Drops To 7 Year Low: "The Spread Beyond EM And Materials Is Alarming"
Richest 1% Now Wealthier Than the Rest of the World, Oxfam Says
IMF Cuts Global Growth Forecasts
IMF Cuts Global Growth Forecast to 3.4% in Year of ‘Great Challenges’
IMF Slashes Global Growth Outlook Again, Warning "Of Great Challenges" In Year Ahead
IMF Slashes Global Growth Outlook On Brazil, Middle East & US
When The Hockeystick Breaks: The IMF Gives Up On China Growth
IMF cuts global growth forecast as China slows
IMF cuts 2016 growth forecast for Russia
Crude Carriers Cutting Speeds as World Swims in Glut of Oil
Not "Off The Lows" - World Trade & Industrial Production Growth Near Post-Crisis Lows
– And world industrial production growth is collapsing at nearly the fastest pace since Q4 2008
– The Baltic Dry Index hit a new all time low this week
– The last time world trade growth was decelerating this fast, The Fed stepped in with QE3
SAUDI ARABIA - UAE
Saudi Arabia Dec Non-Oil Private Sector Growth Eases Sharply
Saudi Arabia Hemorrhages $19.4 Billion In Reserves During December
Saudi December Net Foreign Assets Drop More Than $19 Billion
UAE Non-Oil Private Sector Growth At 40-Month Low
MINING
South Africa Sees 32,000 Possible Mining Job Cuts, Minister Says
Mining's $1.4 Trillion Plunge Like Losing Apple, Google, Exxon
Miners See Worst Losses Since 2011 as BHP Billiton, Anglo Tumble
Vedanta Buys Back Debt as 38% Yield Shows Market Shut to Miners
Freeport Stock Collapse Forcing Miner Into Asset-Sale Corner
STEEL
Tata Steel confirms 1,050 job cuts
World’s Biggest Steel Industry Shrinks for First Time Since 1991
China's Top Steel Province Will Cut Output in 2016, Xinhua Says
China steel output falls 2.3% in 2015, first drop in over 30 years
China Warns "Social Stability Threatened" As 400,000 Steel Workers Are About To Lose Their Jobs
China 2015 power, steel output drop for first time in decades
China Steel Production Has First Annual Drop Since 1981: Chart
U.S. Steel swings to loss on 37% revenue decline
U.S. Steel shares fall on wider-than-expected loss
Brazil's Vale scraps dividend as metals slump
Alcoa smelter closure to bring U.S. aluminum output to post-WWII levels
S&P
S&P Enters The Latest European Scandal: Downgrades Poland From A- To BBB+
S&P Unexpectedly Lowers Poland Rating, Fitch Affirms
S&P Cut Spurs Worst Slump in Polish Currency Since 2011: Chart
S&P Affirms Croatia Ratings At BB/B With Negative Outlook
S&P places French retailer Casino's debt on creditwatch negative
Moody's Downgrades Freeport's Ratings, Assigns B1 CFR; Outlook Negative
S&P Raises Iceland Rating To 'BBB+', Fitch Affirms
U.S.
The U.S. Is At The Center Of The Global Economic Meltdown
U.S. Leading Economic Index Drops In December
"Peddling Fiction" - US Economy Grew A Paltry 0.69% In The Fourth Quarter, Missing Expectations
Economic Growth in U.S. Cracking Under Strain of Global Slowdown
BNP Paribas now sees no U.S. GDP growth in fourth quarter
Weak U.S. data deluge points to sharply slower growth
Bank of America: Rail Traffic Is Saying Something Worrying About the U.S. Economy
US Freight Volumes Fall For First Time In 3 Years As Baltic Dry Crashes Under 400
U.S. business borrowing for equipment falls in December: ELFA
U.S. Trade Deficit Shrinks In November Amid Steep Drop In Imports
U.S. trade deficit in goods climbs in December
U.S. TREASURIES
U.S. Yields Near 2% Make Traders Wonder Where Animal Spirits Are
Fed’s $216 Billion Treasuries Rollover Recalls Crisis Era Buying – Portfolio has $1.1 trillion of U.S. debt maturing through 2019
U.S. LOCAL FED
Atlanta Fed: U.S. seen growing 0.6% in fourth quarter
Atlanta Fed Waits Until The Close To Reveal 0.6% Q4 GDP Estimate
U.S. economy seen expanding 0.8% in fourth quarter: Atlanta Fed
Atlanta Fed Explains Why It Waited Until The Market Close To Reveal The Lowest Q4 GDP Estimate Yet
Empire Fed Crashes At Fastest Pace "Since Lehman"
New York Manufacturers Report Worst Conditions Since Great Recession
Texas Economy Collapses - Dallas Fed Survey Crashes To 6-Year Lows As "D" Word Is Uttered
Philly Fed Contracts For 5th Month In A Row As "Hope" Crashes To 3-Year Lows
Philly Fed Index Remains Negative In January
Philly Fed Index Indicates Contraction In January
U.S. MANUFACTURING
Fears of recession in industrial sector grow as pessimism deepens
U.S. manufacturing teeters on the edge of recession
U.S. Factory Orders Pull Back In November
U.S. Industrial Production Falls 0.4% Amid Steep Drop In Utilities Output
Welcome To The Recession: Industrial Production Crashes Most In 8 Years
Factory Production in U.S. Falls on Less Motor Vehicle Output
U.S. Service Index Unexpectedly Drops
US Services Economy Catches Down To Manufacturing - Slumps To Weakest In 13 Months
Durable Goods Devastation: Capital Goods Orders Crash To Fresh Crisis Lows, Scream Recession
Durable-goods orders slide 5.1% in December
U.S. Durable Goods Orders Plunge 5.1% In December, Much More Than Expected
U.S. Durable Goods Orders Show Steep Drop In December
U.S. OIL
DuPont doubles down on cost cuts ahead of Dow Chemical merger (10% reduction in its workforce of about 54,000 employees)
America's Cash Flow Negative Energy Companies Have $325 Billion In Debt Among Them
Exclusive: Dallas Fed Quietly Suspends Energy Mark-To-Market On Default Contagion Fears
- In other words, the Fed has advised banks to cover up major energy-related losses
Oil Giants Start Losing Safety Net as Refining Margins Squeezed
Oil Slump Seen Delaying $380 Billion Worth of Developments
Once in high demand, North Dakota oil-by-rail shunned on East Coast
Bad Loans Pile Up In Alberta, As Oil Bust Weighs On State Lender
U.S. shale firms, struggling to profit with $30 oil, slash spending more
U.S. Pipeline Company Kinder Morgan swings to loss on $1.15 billion charge
Kinder Morgan discloses writedowns, warns of more with falling energy prices
Oil below $30 fans wipeout fears among U.S. shale survival artists
Chemring Falls on Share Sale as $28 Oil Slows Mideast Purchases
Oil field services Baker Hughes posts loss, sees further rig decline
BASF Faces Harsh Reality as Crude Slump Sends 2015 Profit Lower
Apollo LBO Pipeline Dried Up as Lending Stalled, Harris Says
Continental Resources slashes 2016 budget by 66%
Valero earnings plunge 74% in fourth quarter
Illinois Tool Works outlook lags estimates
Chevron swings to a surprise loss
Chevron Posts First Loss Since 2002
Hess loss deepens on oil price slump
Schlumberger Earnings Plunge On Weak Oil Market
SandRidge On The Verge Bankruptcy: Would Be 2nd Largest Shale Chapter 11 In Past Year
American Electric Power misses estimates
Not Even a Blizzard Can Rescue Gas Bears From America's Glut
U.S. JOBS
U.S. Weekly Jobless Claims Drop Less Than Expected
U.S. Weekly Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Climb To 284,000
U.S. Weekly Jobless Claims Show Unexpected Increase
U.S. Weekly Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Climb To Six-Month High
Continuing Jobless Claims Surge Most Since 2009 As Initial Claims Hit 6-Month Highs
Initial Jobless Claims Surge To 6-Month Highs
This Trend Is Not Your Friend - Initial Jobless Claims Average Surges To 10-Month Highs
Margin Meltdown Just Starting Says JPMorgan Citing Hiring Survey
U.S. HOMES
U.S. Housing Starts Fall 2.5% In December
U.S. housing starts, permits fall in December
U.S. Housing Starts Strong In Northeast, Slow Everywhere Else
U.S. Homebuilder Sentiment Disappointing To Start The Year
U.S. Pending Home Sales Rise Much Less Than Expected In December
Pending Home Sales Disappoint, "Sizable Stock Market Losses" Blamed
Case-Shiller Home Prices Miss For 7th Month In A Row As "Seasonal Adjustments" Dominate Gains
Homebuilder D.R. Horton reports lower-than-expected revenue
U.S. CONSUMER
Economic Growth Cools as U.S. Consumers Temper Spending
Earnings Season Set to Confirm U.S. Slipping Into Profit Recession
The Fed's most recent measure of all consumer or household debt is an astounding $3.5 trillion, an all-time high
U.S. Consumer Credit Climbs Less Than Expected In November
Consumer Borrowing in U.S. Rises at Slowest Pace in 10 Months
U.S. Consumer Sentiment Unexpectedly Deteriorates In January
Consumer sentiment weakens as stock market wobbles
U.S. RETAIL
U.S. Retail Sales Edge Down 0.1% In December
Retail Sales in U.S. Decrease to End Weakest Year Since 2009
Retail Sales, Factory Output Decline: U.S. Economic Takeaways
Auto Sales Are About To Choke: Increase In Non-Revolving Credit Is Smallest In 4 Years
US Consumers Tap Out: Retail Sales End Weakest Year Since 2009 As Control Group Tumbles
U.S. Business Inventories Unexpectedly Drop 0.2% In November
Recession Imminent As Business Inventories-To-Sales At Cycle Highs
Weak U.S. wholesale inventories point to slower fourth quarter growth
AIG to spin off mortgage unit, cut jobs in sweeping overhaul
GE Plans to Cut 6,500 Jobs in Europe After Alstom Purchase
J&J to Cut 3,000 Jobs Amid Medical-Device Sales Slump
J&J to cut 3,000 jobs in struggling device division
Norfolk Southern to cut jobs, rail lines
Pearson to Eliminate 4,000 Jobs in Bid to Revive Earnings
Sprint Fires 2500: 8% Of Its Entire Workforce
Tiffany cuts jobs as sales lose sparkle
U.S wireless carrier Sprint slashes 2,500 jobs to cut costs
VMware cuts 800 jobs
WalMart To Fire 16,000 As It Closes 269 Stores Globally
Wal-Mart to Shut Hundreds of Stores
Yahoo looking to slash 10% or more of its workforce
Apple iPhone sales weaker than expected
Apple set for slowest ever iPhone sales growth
Apple Falls After Forecast for First Sales Drop Since 2003
Cupertino, We Have A Problem: China's JD.Com Just Cut Prices On Apple Products By 17%
"No Brainer" Apple Extends Losses Despite Analyst Pleas That Guidance "Better Than Feared"
Avon to reduce global IT headcount
Intel Tumbles After Weaker Sales Forecast Amid PC Demand Slide
Intel shares fall as fourth-quarter earnings slip
IBM Erases Five Years of Gains Buoyed by Share Buybacks: Chart
IBM forecasts weak earnings for 2016; shares slide
EMC profit hurt by merger costs, revenue by dollar
Seagate Falls After BofA Lowers Estimates on Weak PC Market
Western Digital profit slides 43%
Qualcomm profit falls 24%
Shares of EA tank after revenue misses Wall Street's estimate
Birchbox Cuts 15% of Staff Amid Tech Startup Belt-Tightening
United Tech sales fall short of estimates
XPO Logistics cuts 190 positions to streamline operations
United Earnings Miss Estimates as Strong Dollar Hurts Demand
United Technologies quarterly revenue falls 4.5%
Rockwell Automation lowers guidance on oil price
AT&T revenue below forecasts, shares fall
AT&T revenue growth falls short of expectations
Union Pacific Q4 Profit Down, Results Miss Estimates
Union Pacific Tumbles to Lowest Since 2013 on Earnings Miss
Union Pacific CEO says consumers 'just don't seem to be showing up'
Boeing to cut 747-8 production in half as demand slows
Boeing Stock Tumbles After Drop In Revenue, Cash Flow; Huge Cut To Guidance
United Airlines Q4 Profit Misses Estimates; Revenue Down 3%
Textron shares hammered by revenue decline
Cargill to Close London Shipping Office Amid Freight Slump
GM/Ford Credit Risk Surges To 2 Year Highs As Fitch Raises Auto Sector Concerns
Fiat Chrysler net profit slumps 40%
General Dynamic's revenue falls 6.6%
Caterpillar's stock slumps after December machine sales update
Caterpillar Q4 Sales Miss, Tumble 23%; Guidance Obliterated
Manufacturing Depression Enters Uncharted Territory: Caterpillar Retail Sales Have Never Been Worse
Paccar profit falls 12% to miss estimates
Tractor Supply logs small drop in earnings
St. Jude Medical offers below-consensus outlook
Abbott Labs profit falls as strong dollar weighs
Rite Aid same-store sales down for the month of January, up for the year
Cliffs Natural revenue tumbles 54% on weak oil
Amazon Plunges After Missing Q4 Revenue, Earnings As Concerns Emerge About Future Profitability
Ebay reports another drop in revenue
H&M to keep focusing on China despite profit drop
Macy's Slashes Guidance Again, Twice In One Month
Macy's revises earnings guidance down after Brooklyn real estate transaction closes
Macy's cuts profit view, as timing of gain shifts
Macy's Woes Cast Shadow Over America's Debt-Laden Mall Retailers
Hershey sales hurt by slowdown in China
Starbucks Forecast Misses Estimates After Asia, Europe Slow
Spice maker McCormick says dollar to dent earnings and sales
Etsy Plunges to Lowest Since IPO as Lockup Ends, Investors Bail
Tupperware sales battered by strong dollar
Tupperware fourth-quarter earnings, revenue miss expectations
Ibovespa Extends Its Weekly Decline as Education Companies Slump
Chicago Schools In "Dramatic Trouble": "They're Looking At A Disaster," Illinois Governor Warns
TV ad spending was flat in 2015
U.S. BANKS - INSURANCE
BofA CEO Moynihan Sees More Job Cuts as Bank Reduces Costs
Factbox: Big U.S. banks brace for energy loan losses as oil plunges
Wall Street Feeling the Pain of Low Oil Prices as Loans Go Bad
BofA Reports $21.3 Billion In Energy Exposure; Revenue Miss, Sliding Sales And Trading
Citigroup, Once Top U.S. Bank, Slips to No. 4 Behind Wells Fargo
Citigroup Shares Fall as Bank’s Revenue Gains Are Seen as ‘Soft’
Wells Fargo’s Problem Emerges: $17 Billion In Junk Energy Exposure
Junk Bond Market Braces for What Could Be a $117 Billion Logjam
Junk Bond ETFs Fall to Lowest Level Since 2009 as Oil Drops
US Bank Counterparty Risk Soars After Energy MTM Debacle
Morgan Stanley Leads Bank Bond Sales in Weakest Start Since 2012
Top-Ranked Analyst Says BHP May Need $10 Billion Stock Sale
Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Fall Below Tangible Book Value
American Express Tumbles Most Since 2009 After Profit Falls 38%
American Express Co. Announces 16% Drop In Q4 Profit
American Express Profit Down On Charges; To Cut $1 Bln In Costs
AmEx shares fall as dodgy forecast points to identity crisis
AmEx shares fall as 2016 earnings outlook disappoints
MasterCard revenue falls short on rebates
Discover Financial profit misses expectations
State Street profit, revenue hurt by equity market
Anthem misses profit views, but beats on sales
Insurance company Genworth Falls 17% in Five Days, Extending Two-Year Slump: Chart
Health insurer Anthem reports lower-than-expected quarterly profit
Capital One's profit down
Capital Formation Collapses - IPO Market Crashes To Post-Crisis Lows
Travelers Profit Falls 17% as Energy Investments Pressured
There Are Bearish Signs in the Billions of Dollars Flowing in and out of ETFs
CANADA
Canada Set To Unleash Negative Rates As Oil Patch Dies, Depression Deepens
Canadian Pacific Warns Of "Tremendous Pressure", "Strong Headwinds" For Economy
Canada's "Other" Problem: Record High Household Debt
Analyst Cuts Price Target on Canada’s Largest Newspaper Chain to Zero
Rogers Communications profit misses estimates
BRAZIL
Brazil Private Sector Downturn Continues
Brazil Nov Industrial Production Falls More Than Forecast
Brazil's Economy is heading for the deepest recession since 1901
Petrobras Rescue Could Cost Brazil $21 Billion, Citigroup Says
Venezuela Inflation Surges to 141% Amid `Economic War’
ASIA
For Emerging Markets, It Is Now Worse Than The Asian Financial Crisis
INDIA
India's Exports Fall For 13 Straight Months
India's Industrial Production Declines Unexpectedly
INDONESIA
Indonesia's Exports Decline Sharply In December
Indonesia Slashes Interest Rate To Boost Growth
Indonesia Cuts Interest Rate For First Time In 11 Months
Indonesia Palm Exports Seen at Four-Month Low on Weak Demand
CHINA
Layoffs Loom in China as Growth Slows
China Q4 Economic Growth Eases Unexpectedly
China May Log Weakest Expansion Since 1990
China, World's Growth Engine, Stutters As Economy Expands At Slowest In 25 Years
China Imports Slid 8% and Exports Fell 1.4% In December
China Dec Industrial Profits Fall At Faster Rate
China Services Sector Loses Steam In December
China Forex Reserves Log Record Fall
China's Foreign Direct Investments Declines In December
China's Bank Lending Falls In December
China Central Bank Pumps $20 Bln To Shore Up Markets
China fourth-quarter growth weakest since 2009 as policy misstep fears grow
China GDP Slows to Weakest Since 2009 on Manufacturing Slide
China's growth hits quarter-century low, raising hopes of more stimulus
Capital formation accounted for 36.1% of China's 2015 GDP: stats bureau
China's economy grew by around 7% in 2015, services made up half of GDP - Premier
If China says GDP is 7% then I say cut it in half and you probably have the real China GDP growth number with 3.5% sounding real.
China's Debt Mountain Looms Behind Market Swings
A Towering Chinese Debt Mountain Looms Over Markets
This Could Be A Problem: China's Debt-To-GDP Rises To A Gargantuan 346%
China central bank injects $53.6 billion via medium-term facility
China central bank to inject $91 billion to ease liquidity strains
Offshore Yuan Drops To 3-Week Lows As China Injects Another $70 Billion Liquidity
China FX reserves fall $512.66 billion in 2015, biggest annual drop on record
China had taken back $55 billion in unspent fiscal funds as of end-Nov 2015
China December factory output rises 5.9% year-on-year, missing forecast
Yuan Loan Rates Soar in Hong Kong as PBOC Halts Currency's Slide
China Bank Lending Slows Dramatically, Confirming Concerns About Soaring Bad Loans
China Slowdown to Hurt Export-Heavy Singapore the Most in Southeast Asia
China Rout Threatens to Spawn India Crisis, Top Banker Says
Professor Sufi: An Ironclad Rule of Economics Suggests China Is Headed For a Downturn
The Chinese Are Converting Their Cash to U.S. Dollars
Chinese Rush To Buy Foreign Assets As Mammoth $1 Trillion In Capital Flees Country
China Crashes To 13 Month Low After Last Hour Panic Selling; Crude, Futures Tumble Then Surge
Chinese "Lose Faith In Collapsing Stock Markets And Currency", Import Most Gold Since 2013
China faces deepening impact from world economy, commodity prices
China 2015 property investment slows to seven-year low, sales improve
Strong China property data masks big problem: unsold homes
PetroChina Expects 2015 Profit to Fall as Much as 70% on Oil Slump
Alibaba revenue growth seen slowest on record; to intensify fight with JD.com
Hong Kong Exports Decline In December
Hong Kong Private Sector Output Continues To Contract
Hong Kong's Chan Says City's Economic Growth to Slow From 2015
World’s Largest Jewelry Chain Hong Chow Tai Fook's Kong Sales Plunge on Fewer Chinese
TAIWAN
Taiwan Slips Into Recession In Q4
Taiwan Dec Jobless Rate Rises More Than Expected
Taiwan Dec Industrial Output Falls More Than Forecast
Taiwan Export Orders Fall More Than Expected In December
Taiwan Dec Industrial Output Falls More Than Forecast
JAPAN
BoJ Introduces Negative Interest Rate; Downgrades Inflation Forecast
Japan Labor Cash Earnings Remain Flat In November
Japan Leading Index Falls As Expected In November
Japan Manufacturing PMI Slips To 52.4 In January - Nikkei
Japan All Industry Activity Falls More Than Forecast In November
Japan's Industrial Output Falls In November
Japan Nov Leading Index Falls More Than Estimated
Japan Small Business Confidence Falls For Second Month
Japan Industrial Output Slides 1.4% In December
Japan Household Spending Down 4.4% On Year In December
Japan retail sales slip in December
Japan Auto Production Falls In December
Japan Housing Starts Fall Unexpectedly In December
Japan Core Machine Orders Tumble 14.4% In November
Honda Motor profit falls 19%
SOUTH KOREA
Bank of Korea cuts growth outlook to 3% from 3.2%
South Korea GDP Climbs 0.6% In Q4
South Korea Money Supply Growth Eases For Second Month
Hyundai fourth-quarter profit slips as U.S. discounts, emerging market slowdown bite
Samsung profit drops 40% in Q4
Samsung Elec fourth quarter guidance underscores tech sector headwinds
Samsung's Earnings Miss Underlines Sputtering Global Demand
SINGAPORE
Singapore Employment Logs Slowest Growth Since 2003
Singapore Non-Oil Domestic Exports Falls More Than Expected In December
Singapore Dec Industrial Production Falls More Than Expected
Singapore Home Sales Decline Sharply In December
Singapore New Home Sales Halved in December Amid Property Curbs
PHILIPINES
Philippine Exports Fall In November
Philippine Trade Deficit Widens In November
MALAYSIA
Malaysia Jobless Rate Climbs In November
Malaysia Nov Industrial Output Growth Slows More Than Forecast
Malaysia Lowers Statutory Reserve Requirement Ratio
Malaysian Petronas plans cuts and review to counter oil price slump
AUSTRALIA
Australia Leading Index Dips In December
Australia Service Sector Hits 13-Month Low
Australia Construction Sector Contracts In December - AiG
Australia New Home Sales Slide 2.7% In November - HIA
Australia Consumer Confidence Sinks In January
Australia New Motor Vehicle Sales Fall In December
NEW ZEALAND
Fitch Cuts New Zealand Rating Outlook To 'Stable'
New Zealand Credit Card Spending Falls In December
New Zealand Money Supply Growth Slows In December
SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa Manufacturing Production Falls For Second Month
South Africa Private Sector Downturn Continues In December
South Africa Raises Interest Rates By 50 Bps
Farmers Battling Drought Owe South Africa Banks $7.5 Billion
EURO ZONE
GE To Cut 6,500 European Jobs
Eurozone Retail Sales Growth Weakest In 12 Months
Eurozone Sentix Investor Confidence Deteriorates In January
Eurozone Investor Confidence Weakens In January
Eurozone Private Sector Growth At 11-month Low; Weaker Than Forecast
Eurozone Private Sector Growth Slowest In 11 Months
Eurozone Economic Confidence Weakens More Than Forecast
Eurozone Economic Confidence At 5-Month Low
Eurozone M3 Growth Eases In December
Eurozone Industrial Output Falls More Than Forecast
Eurozone November Industrial Output Falls Most Since 2014
Eurozone business loans growth slows
European Auto Market Growth Set to Slow
ARM and rival European chipmaker stocks fall on wary Apple outlook
Airbus Helicopters CEO sees flat business in 2016
GERMANY
Germany cuts 2016 GDP growth forecast to 1.7%
German Private Sector Growth Eases In January
German Industrial Output Unexpectedly Falls Amid China Risks
German Industrial Output Falls Unexpectedly In November
German Industrial Production Falls Unexpectedly
Germany Manufacturing Turnover Declines In November
German Retail Sales Fall Unexpectedly In December
German Retail Sales Growth Misses Expectations In November
German Economic Confidence Falls For First Time In 3 Months
German ZEW Economic Confidence At 3-Month Low
German Business Confidence Tumbles To 11-month Low On Weaker Outlook
German Ifo Business Confidence Drops More Than Expected; 11-month Low
Deutsche Bank Falls to Lowest Since 2009 on Turmoil in Markets
Deutsche Bank Said to Probe Subprime Auto Securitizations
Deutsche Bank Drops as Investment Bank Revenue Concerns Mount
Deutsche Bank Sees Quarterly Loss on Legal, Overhaul Costs
Deutsche Bank to cut 2015 bonuses after record loss-sources
Volkswagen's Europe Market Share Falls for First Time Since 2007
Volkswagen 2015 group sales fall for first year since 2002
Volkswagen Sales Fall Below 10 Million-Car Milestone in Diesel Scandal
SWITZERLAND
Swiss Retail Sales Fall For Fourth Straight Month
Swiss Economic Sentiment Declines Sharply To 6-Month Low
Swiss Money Supply Growth Eases In December
Swiss Watch Exports Fall In December
THE NETHERLANDS
Dutch Export Growth Slows In November
Dutch Consumer Confidence At 8-Month Low, Spending Growth Slows
Shell Fourth-Quarter Profit Plunges as Oil’s Slump Deepens
Belgium Business Confidence Declines Sharply
DENMARK
Denmark Industrial Production Falls For Third Month
Denmark Retail Sales Fall For First Time In 7 Months
Denmark Consumer Confidence Weakens In January
Danish telecommunications company TDC cancels dividend amid deteriorating results
ESTONIA - LATVIA - LITHUANIA
Estonia Nov Industrial Production Falls At Faster Rate
Estonia Nov Trade Deficit Widens
Latvia GDP Stagnates In Q4
Lithuania Retail Sales Growth Eases Further
NORWAY
Norway Factory PMI At 4-month Low
Norway Industrial Production Falls For Second Month
Norway Dec Trade Surplus Shrinks
Norway Dec Retail Sales Fall More Than Expected
SWEDEN
Sweden Jobless Rate Rises Unexpectedly In December
Sweden Dec Jobless Rate Climbs More Than Expected
Sweden Jobs Agency Says Government Won't Reach Unemployment Goal
Sweden Retail Sales Growth Eases More Than Forecast In December
Swedish oil producer Lundin to cut capital spending by 26% in 2016
FINLAND
Finland Jobless Rate At 6-Month High
Finland Trade Deficit Widens In November
Finland Industrial Production Falls For Second Month
Finland Economic Output Declines Further In November
Poland Jobless Rate Climbs More Than Expected In December
Czech Nov Industrial Output Growth Quickens Less Than Forecast
HUNGARY
Hungary Industrial Output Growth Eases In November
Hungary Retail Sales Growth Eases For Second Month
Hungary Nov Trade Surplus Shrinks
Hungary Nov Industrial Production Growth Slows
ROMANIA
Romania Holds Interest Rates Steady, Cuts Reserve Ratio
Romania Trade Deficit Widens In November As Imports Grew Faster Than Exports
Bulgaria Money Supply Growth Eases In December
FRANCE
France GDP To Grow A Paltry 0.3%
French Q4 GDP Growth Eases
French GDP Growth Slows In Q4
French Service Sector Contracts In December
French Industrial Output Falls More Than Forecast
French Current Account Deficit Widens In November
U.K.
British Manufacturers See More Risks Than Opportunities In 2016
U.K. GDP Expands 0.6% In Q4
U.K. Permanent Job Placement Growth Eases In December
BP Fires 4,000 As Oil Slump Deepens
Rolls-Royce to cut more senior management jobs
U.K. Service Sector Growth Eases Slightly In December
U.K. Growth To Slow As Manufacturing Exports Near Stagnation
U.K. Industrial Production Falls Most In Almost 3 Years
U.K. Factory Orders Fall In January: CBI
U.K. Like-For-Like Sales Add Just 0.1% In December - BRC
U.K. Household Finace Index At 5-Month Low
U.K. Retail Sales Fall More Than Forecast
U.K. Retail Sales Fall Most In 15 Months
U.K. Retail Sales Decline In January: CBI
U.K. Construction Output Falls Unexpectedly
U.K. House Price Growth Slows In January
U.K. Mortgage Approvals At 7-Month Low
U.K. House Price Growth Slows, Mortgage Approvals At 7-Month Low
Halfords' Cycling Slowdown Shows Brits Are Shifting Gears
U.K. Sports Direct Woes Mount as Retailer Issues Profit Warning
SABMiller Q3 Group NPR Dips On Adverse Currency, Weak North America
Barclays Cutting 1,000 Jobs, About 230 Eliminated in Asia
Barclays to slash about 1,000 investment bank jobs worldwide
Barclays, Deutsche Bank Face Slowdown at Investment Bank Units
Barclays CEO Deepens Cuts at Investment Bank
RBS takes $5.1 billion hit in bid to break from past
RBS hit by almost $3.6 billion in charges
IRELAND
Ireland Retail Sales Fall In December
Irish Service Sector Growth Eases In December
Ireland Trade Surplus Falls In November
ITALY
Italy Hourly Wages Flat In December
Italy Retail Sales Fall For First Time In 8 Months
Italy Jan Business Sentiment Decreased More-Than-Expected
Italy Industrial Output Falls Unexpectedly In November
Italian Banks Collapse, Short Sales Banned As Loan Loss Fears Mount
Italy Races To Defuse €200 Billion Bad Loan Time Bomb With "Bad Bank"
SPAIN
Spain Services Growth Unexpectedly Slows In December
Spain Trade Deficit Widens In November
Portugal Consumer Confidence At 11-month Low
Santander profit tumbles on PPI provisions
TURKEY
Turkey Jobless Rate Rises Unexpectedly In October
Turkey Nov Industrial Production Growth Slows More Than Expected
Turkey Current Account Deficit Widens In November
Turkey Consumer Confidence Worsens For Second Month