♠ Posted by Emmanuel in Casino Capitalism,China at 8/27/2015 12:51:00 PM
Islamabad or bust: HK stocks can now be bought more cheaply than Pakistan’s.
Having a powerful economy in your orbit, Big Brother style, has its benefits and drawbacks. For the longest time, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE) has benefited from riding China’s slipstream: Late last year, mainland China overtook Japan […]
Justin McCurryMarkets across Asia were holding their breath on Wednesday after early hopes that the worst of this week’s turmoil could be behind them were tempered by concern that China has not done enough to stabilise its economy.A day after China’s central bank lowered interest rates in an attempt to ease the crisis, most Asia-Pacific stocks suffered minor losses, while […]
China’s stock markets have lost all the gains they made in 2015. Photograph: Zhang Yixi/Xinhua Press/Corbis
What has happened in China?China’s stock market has fallen sharply over recent weeks despite measures by officials in Beijing aimed at calming investors’ jitters and shoring up global confidence in the country’s slowing economy.Shares in China had soared 150% in the 12 months to mid-June […]
It’s officially Black Monday, if only in China for now.We warned on Friday, after last week’s China rout, that the market is getting ahead of itself with its expectation of a RRR-cut by China as large as 100 bps. “The risk is that there isn’t one.” We were spot on, because not only was there no RRR cut, but Chinese […]
Submitted by Chris Martenson of PeakProsperityMaking Sense Of The Sudden Market PlungeThe global deflationary wave we have been tracking since last fall is picking up steam. This is the natural and unavoidable aftereffect of a global liquidity bubble brought to you courtesy of the world’s main central banks. What goes up must come down – and that’s especially true for […]
We Have Already Witnessed The First 1300 Points Of The Stock Market Crash Of 2015
By Michael Snyder, on August 20th, 2015What has been happening on Wall Street the past few days has been nothing short of stunning. On Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 358 points. It was the largest single day decline in a year and a […]
Sometimes it helps to take look the world through an unconventional perspective when thinking about the size of things.So here’s a pretty awesome map from Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Chief Investment Strategist Michael Hartnett that shows the world according to free-float equity market capitalization in billions of dollars measured by the MSCI.The US, with a market cap of $19.8 trillion, is the […]
Why Are So Many People Freaking Out About A Stock Market Crash In The Fall Of 2015?
By Michael Snyder, on August 19th, 2015Is the stock market going to crash by the end of 2015? Of course stock market crashes are already happening in 23 different nations around the planet, but most Americans don’t really care about those markets. The […]
Why Are So Many People Freaking Out About A Stock Market Crash In The Fall Of 2015?
By Michael Snyder, on August 19th, 2015Is the stock market going to crash by the end of 2015? Of course stock market crashes are already happening in 23 different nations around the planet, but most Americans don’t really care about those markets. The […]
Summary: Overall, fund managers’ asset allocations in August provide conflicting views on sentiment.On the one hand, fund managers’ cash remains at the highest levels since the 2011 and 2012 equity lows and the panic in 2008-09. This is normally contrarian bullish.However, allocations to equities rose over the past two months and are above the mean. Cash levels are high because […]
