Shares continue to slip, causing anguish and heavy losses for China’s millions of personal investors. Photograph: Imaginechina/Corbis
The temperature in this small airconditioned room in a brokerage in Shanghai’s Xuhai district was cool, as was the mood despite a drop in the stock market for the second day running.In recent weeks, as China’s stock market falls appeared to stabilise, millions of […]
Jason Lee / REUTERSSee AlsoChina pays a price to avert stock market crashChina’s small investors are looking for a way out of stocksInvestors aren’t convinced by China’s efforts to stop the $2.8 trillion market routA commentary in the Communist Party’s flagship publication yesterday suggests the mainland government is prepared to intervene in the stock market again if turbulence returns.The article […]
People have called me a “perma-bull” forever. Mish Shedlock called me a “wacko”. Zerohedge has called me insane. Nouriel Roubini has laughed in my face. My daughters still quote Don Luskin when he was on CNBC shaking his head and saying, “James, James, James…” while laughing after I said the market was going to hit new highs.
Well, the market has […]
CNBCMorgan Stanley’s Adam Parker.Morgan Stanley chief US equity strategist Adam Parker does not want to acknowledge the permabears right now, even with stocks at all-time highs.Nor does Parker think these folks deserve credit when we finally get a stock-market correction.”We all know lots of people who have called 17 of the last zero corrections,” Parker wrote in a note to […]
Submitted by Joseph Calhoun via Alhambra Investment Partners,
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
Steven Wright
I think one of the hardest […]
June 9th was the last comment here on the U.S. equity market. At the time, CNBC was obsessing over the “summer swoon”, pundits seeking attention and just guessing piled on, and the market was leaking slowly every day. That continued for a few weeks and on June 30 the Fidelity S&P Index fund that is used here was allocated more […]
Submitted by Jared “The 10th Man” Dillian via MauldinEconomics.com,We are about a week into the Greek non-crisis, and nothing especially scary has happened. Stocks opened up lower a couple of times, and there was one wild trading day in EURUSD, but everything is essentially unchanged. Which surprised everyone. Including me, a little.I used to be a plunger. Loved shorting stuff. […]
This hollow illusion propagated solely by the fakest of people throwing everything away, is fraying around the riots.All that’s left of this con job is the instant when the herd of dumbfucks realizes they’re just a herd of dumbfucks. Led by much bigger dumbfucks…Value line Geometric w/failed manic overthrow:The real economy is missing in action, which leaves just momentum – […]
A record $13 billion (£8.4 billion) went into Chinese equity funds in the last week, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as China’s government scrambles to put a floor under tanking stocks.A BAML Global Research note sent to clients Thursday shows $25 billion (£16 billion) went into stocks globally last week, the biggest inflow since December 2014. More than half of the worldwide total was […]
Stock-market investing in Britain is done mainly by professionals such as fund managers, folks trusted with other people’s money because of their increased understanding of investing. It’s the same way in the US, though Americans are more likely than Brits to maintain a small portfolio of stocks in which they have a personal interest.But millions of ordinary citizens in China […]
