Something ominous in the financial markets is unfolding behind the “curtain,” off-balance-sheet and out of the view of anyone who might care to know the truth.
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The most powerful litmus test for gold’s ongoing relevance is an assessment of whether the U.S. financial system could endure normalization of interest rate structures.
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And the fate of the consumption-based US economy?
Systemic Risk Among Deutsche Bank and Global Systemically Important Banks — “The blue, purple & green nodes denote European, US & Asian banks, respectively.
Europe’s largest lenders have been under pressure to restructure their trading units as volatile markets erode revenue.
prompting commentators to suggest that 'uncertainty on the credit front appears to be weighing" on some and may be raising concerns about the German economy.
The speculation comes amid a fresh round of criticism the outspoken New York businessman has lobbed at the Fed.
Ken Rogoff, the former chief economist at IMF, said China could suffer a calamitous slowdown – dragging the rest of the world down with it.
In an economy where more than 2/3rds of the growth rate is driven by consumption, an even bigger imbalance of the “have” and “have not’s” presents a major headwind.
Whilst so much of the media and indeed the world were focusing on the travails of my old employer Deutsche Bank yesterday something else significant sneaked under many radars. This was the International Monetary Fund lecturing Switzerland on the subject of negative interest-rates as you can see below. Calibrating the negative interest rate differential so…
The unarguable scheme by western Central Banks to suppress the price of gold with paper gold is contingent on the ability to deliver actual physical gold into China and India. […]
Central banks have cut Treasuries for three straight quarters. Pullback may be a sign the bond market is at a tipping point
There are some words that make such an unlikely pairing that we find it hard to put them together.
Global debt issuance is on course to hit a record high in 2016 as figures showed sales this year topped $5 trillion (£
It doesn’t matter what you call the government — a monarchy, a theocracy, or a dictatorship; they all function in more or less the same way.
With geopolitical risk aside, yes, there is a hedge potential value to real estate with fixed rates under 3% for 10 years out. This all becomes a geopolitical risk.
Deutsche Bank (DB) is the 11th largest bank in the world. And it has over $61 TRILLION (with a “T”) in derivatives on its books.