5 August, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on China stocks opening indications – Shanghai Comp to open down 1.9%
China stocks opening indications – Shanghai Comp to open down 1.9%
Opening indications for Chinese stockmarkets:
– Shanghai Comp to open down 1.9%
– CSI300 index to open down 1.7%
Also:
– Yuan mid-point et at 6.1181 (prior close 6.2096)
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5 August, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on US Allows Ally Turkey to Bomb Only Group Effectively Fighting ISIS
US Allows Ally Turkey to Bomb Only Group Effectively Fighting ISIS
Submitted by Naji Dahl via Anti-Media,
Late in July, the Anti-Media reported that Turkey joined the U.S. led coalition conducting airstrikes against the Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL). Since then, it has become clear that Turkey’s strategy is part of a larger agreement with the U.S. to conduct a war against “extremism” in the region.
5 August, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Chinese Stocks Tumble Despite Margin Debt Rises As Virtu Is Unleashed To Provide "Liquidity" After Citadel Ban
Chinese Stocks Tumble Despite Margin Debt Rises As Virtu Is Unleashed To Provide "Liquidity" After Citadel Ban
No lesser liquidity-providing high-frequency-trading never-a-losing-trade shop than Virtu financial has been ‘allowed’ to trade Chinese capital markets. Coming just days after Citadel’s ban, one can only assume that Chinese regulators made a deal with the devil CEO Doug Cifu to levitate markets at any and every cost in order to pick up pennies in front of de-leveraging, over-margined army of farmers and grandmas now seeking exits. Sure enough for the second day in a row margin debt is on the rise again.
5 August, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Japan’s Dire Message To Yellen: "Don’t Raise Rates Soon"
Japan’s Dire Message To Yellen: "Don’t Raise Rates Soon"
Originally posted at KesslerCompanies.com,
We think it is more useful to compare economics and interest rates in
- the period since 2007 in the U.S. (The Great Recession) with
- the period since 1990 in Japan (Japan’s 2+ lost decades) as well as
- the period after 1929 in the US (The Great Depression)
...because they are all periods of a ‘balance-sheet recession’ (or similarly, ‘secular stagnation’).
5 August, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Rosetta Stone’s Change in Strategy Might Just Be Paying Off
Rosetta Stone’s Change in Strategy Might Just Be Paying Off
Rosetta Stone’s efforts to focus on education and corporate customers led to more one-time charges, creating losses. Declining foreign-language sales from the consumer business continue as well.
5 August, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Cash-Strapped Saudi Arabia Hopes To Continue War Against Shale With Fed’s Blessing
Cash-Strapped Saudi Arabia Hopes To Continue War Against Shale With Fed’s Blessing
Two weeks ago, Morgan Stanley made a decisively bearish call on oil, noting that if the forward curve was any indication, the recovery in prices will be “far worse than 1986” meaning “there would be little in analysable history that could be a guide to [the] cycle.”
5 August, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Police Officer Caught On Tape Discussing "Ways To Kill A Black Man And Cover It Up"
Police Officer Caught On Tape Discussing "Ways To Kill A Black Man And Cover It Up"
Earlier this week we reported a stunning statistic: in July, the US police had killed 118 people mostly through gunfire, the highest number of police “induced” fatalities in 2015, and on pace for a record 1150 deaths for all of 2015.
To be sure, most of these deaths took place in the “ordinary course” of police business, primarily in self-defense. However, two things are troubling: