The Traderszone Network

With more than half of Chinese stocks halted or suspended, traders are scrambling to hedge the potential vacuum under prices when (or if) they ever open again. With options limited to non-existent in China, ETFs around the world are under pressure (with significant discounts to NAV everywhere). The cost of protecting against significant downside is now at its highest on record and the skew (difference between optimists and pessimists) has never been higher…

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With China’s stock market meltdown now into its fourth week, what does this mean for gold demand out of the world’s second largest consumer of the precious metal?

If you have your employer’s stock in your company-sponsored retirement plan, you need to understand about net unrealized appreciation.

Yen held onto gains against the dollar this year as investors unwound short positions amid a slump in global equities triggered by China crisis.

Before the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and, to a lesser extent, the Silk Road Fund became international symbols for the end of Western economic hegemony, there was the BRICS Bank.

Or at least there was the idea of the BRICS bank. 

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Equity-income is a legacy mutual fund classification for investment strategies that use dividend-paying stocks to produce income. Capital appreciation is not the main goal. Equity-income funds can be less volatile in a falling stock market. Equity-income mutual funds performed in line with the S&P 500 for much of the past 10 years, but fell behind starting in Q3 2013.

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Asian equities extended losses on Thursday as concerns over China’s market turmoil spread,while the safe-haven yen shot to a seven-week high.