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The Running Of The Bulltards: Milked and Bilked. Again.

Ponzi World (Over 3 Billion NOT Served): The Running Of The Bulltards: Milked and Bilked. Again.

The Running Of The Bulltards: Milked and Bilked. Again.Another “successful” Wall Street IPO pump and dump cycle endsRight on time, junk stocks are blowing off Shanghai StyleMW: August 10, 2015Revenueless Biotech Gains 2,700% In two days on 60x average volume.Gets CYNK’d at the end of […]

China dethroned as world's most liquid stock market: 'Bad taste in …

China has lost its title as the world’s most liquid stock market as trading halts and regulatory efforts to curb bearish transactions drive away investors.Daily turnover on mainland exchanges has averaged the equivalent of US$202 billion over the past 30 days, down from US$288 billion at the start of July. After exceeding turnover on U.S. bourses for about a month […]

Why short-selling ban won't help Chinese stock market – Business …

REUTERS/Jason ReedChina is trying hard to hold up its stock market.The first sign of a full-blown crisis is when the government tries to ban short-selling, and China is no exception.Short-sellers borrow stocks and immediately sell them off, reasoning they can buy them back at a lower price in the future and pocket the difference.But their negative bets put downward pressure […]

In July, Investors Were Guests at the Market’s “Red Wedding”

In July, Investors Were Guests at the Market’s “Red Wedding”Bysilveristhenew|PublishedAugust 2, 2015wallstreetexaminer.com / by Michael E. Lewitt / August 2, 2015This is a syndicated repost courtesy of Money Morning. To view original,click here.The simultaneous blood baths in commodities and U.S. stocks continued in July but failed to penetrate the skulls of U.S. stock investors who continue to allow themselves to be brainwashed into […]

MAP: Colossal US companies worth more than the entire stock …

Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts have just published a fantastic map showing which major US listed companies are worth more than entire emerging market stock indices.Take a look:BAMLThe authors offer this explanation of the “the journey from hubris to humiliation” that emerging market equities have undergone: Back in late 2010, when Sepp Blatter announced that Russia & Qatar would follow […]

China: Major Devaluation Coming – DollarCollapse.com

The whole “market economy” thing is turning out to be a little trickier than China’s dictators expected. To set up the story: After the 2008 crash the country borrowed about $15 trillion (an amount that dwarfs the US Fed’s quantitative easing programs) and spent the proceeds on history’s biggest infrastructure program.This pushed up the prices of iron ore, oil, copper, […]

The Meaning of China's Stock Market Intervention – Council on …

Author: Joshua Kurlantzick, Senior Fellow for Southeast AsiaJuly 23, 2015BloombergShare–
The spectacle of the stock market meltdown in China has led many analysts and investors to see an upside to the downturn. The slump is “the most serious crisis” facing President Xi Jinping “since he came to power,” China commentator Willy Lam told an audience of academics in Vancouver on July […]

Bank of America Warren Buffett's favorite stock market indicator …

Bill Pugliano/GettyWarren BuffettThe Oracle of Omaha is facing some opposition.In a note to clients on Monday, Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Savita Subramanian wrote that Warren Buffett’s favorite metric of long-term value “may have limited utility.”The market cap to GDP ratio, which once characterized as the “single best measure” of value, is used to determine whether the stock market is […]

PayPal starts trading above $40 and it's already worth billions more …

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PayPal started trading on the Nasdaq this morning at $41.46 per share.As an […]

Why China's stock market bubble was always bound to burst | Orville …

Over the past few weeks, punters in China underwent a near-death experience when their country’s two stock exchanges entered freefall. The rapidly inflating bubble that had driven share prices to dizzying heights had suddenly burst. By this spring, the stock markets in Shanghai, with 831 listed companies, and Shenzhen, with 1,700, boasted a combined market capitalisation of $9.5tn, which made […]