U.S. Financial System “Warning System” Failed to Flash Warning as Fed Pumped $6 Trillion Emergency Liquidity into Wall Street

U.S. Financial System “Warning System” Failed to Flash Warning as Fed Pumped $6 Trillion Emergency Liquidity into Wall Street

The Office of Financial Research (OFR) was created under the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation of 2010 to keep the Financial Stability Oversight Council (F-SOC) informed on emerging threats that have the potential to implode the financial system — as occurred...
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BlackRock Begins Buying Junk Bond ETFs For The FED Today

BlackRock Begins Buying Junk Bond ETFs For The FED Today

BlackRock begins buying junk bond ETFs for the FED today and it’s already at work for the Central Bank of Israel. It’s off to the races today for BlackRock. The New York Fed, with authority from the Federal Reserve Board...
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About The Future of U.S. Shale

About The Future of U.S. Shale

A number of analysts is actually talking such hot theme – How U.S. shale can survive the oil crash? The question regarding whether we have reached peak oil demand is a pressing concern for U.S. upstream activity. U.S. tight oil’s current...
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Apple Is Shifting A Fifth Of iPhone Production From China To India

Apple Is Shifting A Fifth Of iPhone Production From China To India

One reason why the global economy will never be the same after the pandemic is long forgotten, is that supply-chains – which have been in place for decades, taking advantage of China’s cheap labor costs and keeping global inflation in...
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Class 8 Heavy Duty Truck Orders Crash To 25 Year Low In April

Class 8 Heavy Duty Truck Orders Crash To 25 Year Low In April

The catastrophe in Class 8 heavy duty truck orders continues. Still struggling with the remnants of an order backlog that started almost two years ago with record orders in August 2018, the industry was unable to find an equilibrium prior...
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FCA posts $1.9 Billion loss in Q1

FCA posts $1.9 Billion loss in Q1

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles lost $1.9 billion (1.7 billion euros) in the first three months of 2020 as the Italian-American automaker felt the initial financial sting of the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the loss, the company said it had revenues of $22 billi...
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Liquidates All US Airlines Holdings

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Liquidates All US Airlines Holdings

Berkshire Hathaway had held sizeable positions in the major US airlines, including an 11% stake in Delta Air Lines, 10% of American Airlines, 10% of Southwest Airlines and 9% of United Airlines at the end of 2019, according to its annual report and comp...
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Exxon Posts First Loss in Three Decades

Exxon Posts First Loss in Three Decades

Exxon Mobil Corp. took a $2.9 billion writedown in the first quarter, resulting in a $610 million loss. The company’s earnings fell 126 percent in the first quarter ended March 31, down from the $2.4 billion profit it reported a year ago....
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The FED Will Monetize Double The Total Treasury Issuance

The FED Will Monetize Double The Total Treasury Issuance

For The First Time Ever, The FED Will Monetize Double The Total Treasury Issuance. While daytraders look transfixed at a stock market which continues to surge higher even as the US has lost around 22 million jobs in the past...
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Hundred Fully Loaded Tankers Anchored Off Singapore, BP Reported  $4 Billion Loss

Hundred Fully Loaded Tankers Anchored Off Singapore, BP Reported $4 Billion Loss

Back in the late fall of 2014, when Saudi Arabia broke up OPEC for the first time and unleashed a torrent of crude oil on the world despite the protests of its fellow cartel members, oil prices crashed as a...
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Break-even Oil Prices for 2020, Driller Diamond Offshore Filed for Bankruptcy

Break-even Oil Prices for 2020, Driller Diamond Offshore Filed for Bankruptcy

A sharp drop in oil prices adds to rating pressures for oil-exporting Middle East and Africa (MEA) sovereigns with vulnerable public and external finances, says Fitch Ratings. A slump in tourism, weakening demand for non-oil exports, and financial volatility a...
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Saudi Arabia is maneuvering to survive the oil price crisis

Saudi Arabia is maneuvering to survive the oil price crisis

Saudi Arabia may have to borrow as much as $58 billion this year to cover a budget shortfall caused by the oil price slump, Bloomberg reports, citing Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan. Al-Jadaan told media this week that the Kingdom might...
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Lysol Maker Begs Public Not To Inject Its Cleaning Products After Dangerous Trump Advice

Lysol Maker Begs Public Not To Inject Its Cleaning Products After Dangerous Trump Advice

During last night’s press briefing, President Trump made some dangerous remarks about a new treatment involving ‘sunlight’ and ‘bleaching’ of the lungs to combat the virus. It appeared that during Thursday night’s presser, T...
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Daimler Sees 70% Drop in 1Q Earnings, Renault and Hyundai Follow

Daimler Sees 70% Drop in 1Q Earnings, Renault and Hyundai Follow

Daimler AG (owner of Mercedes-Benz) sees first-quarter earnings plunge almost 70% as the coronavirus-related lockdowns have left its auto showrooms closed. The German luxury automaker announced that it expected preliminary adjusted first-quarter earnings befo...
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GS Now Sees A 123% Plunge In Q2 S&P Earnings, $850 Billion Drop In Corporate Spending

GS Now Sees A 123% Plunge In Q2 S&P Earnings, $850 Billion Drop In Corporate Spending

With 9% of S&P 500 firms having already reported Q1 earnings including all of the major banks, results have generally disappointed relative to already tepid expectations. 43% of companies have missed consensus expectations, on pace for the highest rate sin...
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