Category: Banks / Funds

Bank Run Drains $550 Billion In Deposits In One Week
18. 3. 2023 No Responses

Bank Run Drains $550 Billion In Deposits In One Week

It seems that QT Is Essentially Over. The Fed Since 2020: 1. Mar 2020: Inflation won’t be a problem 2. Jan 2021: Inflation is “transitory” 3. Sept 2021: Interest rates won’t rise until 2024 4. Jan 2022: Recession is needed...
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Moody’s Downgrades Entire U.S. Banking System
14. 3. 2023 No Responses

Moody’s Downgrades Entire U.S. Banking System

Late Monday, the credit rating agency, Moody’s, downgraded the entire U.S. banking system outlook to negative from stable. This important message was widely suppressed, as if on orders from agents in command. Ttao’s reaction from Moody’s suggests...
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Banks Plunge, Futures Tumble As Analysts Realizes Latest Bailout Is Insufficient
13. 3. 2023 No Responses

Banks Plunge, Futures Tumble As Analysts Realizes Latest Bailout Is Insufficient

Goldman Sachs calling a pause in the Fed’s hiking cycle, 2Y yields have plummeted a staggering 50bps, suffering the biggest 2-day drop since Black Monday in October 1987. Most US banking stocks cede early gains to trade around flat or...
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Central Banks Around The World Are Suffering Heavy Losses
5. 3. 2023 No Responses

Central Banks Around The World Are Suffering Heavy Losses

Central bank balance sheets, bloated by a decade of monetary manipulation, now yield less than overnight interest rates. That gap is producing staggering losses for the very same central bankers responsible for creating it. One such example: The German Bundes...
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Lebanon to devalue currency by 90% on Feb. 1
31. 1. 2023 No Responses

Lebanon to devalue currency by 90% on Feb. 1

Lebanon will adopt a new official exchange rate of 15,000 Lebanese pounds per US dollar on Feb. 1, central bank governor Riad Salameh said, marking a 90% devaluation from its current official rate that has remained unchanged for 25 years....
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Qatar Investment Authority doubles stake in Credit Suisse
29. 1. 2023 No Responses

Qatar Investment Authority doubles stake in Credit Suisse

The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) now owns 6.8% of Credit Suisse’s shares, second only to the 9.9% stake purchased by the Saudi National Bank last year as part of a $4.2 billion capital raise. Combined with the 3.15% owned by...
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Citadel hedge fund recorded $16 Billion Profit, overall hedge funds overall losing $208 billion last year
23. 1. 2023 No Responses

Citadel hedge fund recorded $16 Billion Profit, overall hedge funds overall losing $208 billion last year

And Ken Griffen’s Citadel hedge fund recorded $16 Billion Profit For Clients In 2022. Citadel had a blowout year, and according to the WSJ, had generated about $28 billion in revenue. The impressive number, driven by a 38.1% return at the...
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History: The first ETF launched 30 years ago, revolutionizing investing
22. 1. 2023 No Responses

History: The first ETF launched 30 years ago, revolutionizing investing

30 years ago, the launch of the first exchange-traded fund ushered in a new era of investing. Now, the industry is bringing exotic trading strategies to the masses. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, which tracks the benchmark U.S. stock...
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BIS sets a limit of 2% on crypto reserves among commercial banks
18. 12. 2022 No Responses

BIS sets a limit of 2% on crypto reserves among commercial banks

Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS) of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) sets a limit of 2% on crypto reserves among commercial banks. The new standard limits crypto reserves among banks to 2% by 2025,...
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President Joe Biden announced a $36 billion bail-out of financially troubled pension plans
13. 12. 2022 No Responses

President Joe Biden announced a $36 billion bail-out of financially troubled pension plans

Pension funds need an annual profit of 6 to 7% to function. And how do you achieve that when government bonds have yielded 0 to 2% p.a. for the past 11 years? Yeah, using a government bail-out! The funds are...
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Russia and China bypassing SWIFT
29. 11. 2022 No Responses

Russia and China bypassing SWIFT

Moscow and Beijing are developing a system of settlements which could allow cross-border transactions without using the Western financial messaging system, SWIFT, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak revealed on Tuesday. The two countries have reportedly acce...
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Central bank strategies deployed since the financial crisis are destroying the real economy, worsening inequality, and creating societal chaos
20. 11. 2022 No Responses

Central bank strategies deployed since the financial crisis are destroying the real economy, worsening inequality, and creating societal chaos

Nomi Prins warns that central bank strategies deployed since the financial crisis are destroying the real economy, worsening inequality, and creating societal chaos. Economist, journalist, and former Wall Street exec Nomi Prins is here to explain the inexpl...
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New York Fed And 12 Banking Giants Launch Programmable Digital Dollar Test
14. 11. 2022 No Responses

New York Fed And 12 Banking Giants Launch Programmable Digital Dollar Test

Never let a crisis go to waste. With equity and bond markets stuck in brutal bear markets and providing a sufficient distraction to what is happening behind the scenes, the Fed and a group of banks have been quietly preparing...
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WSJ: Caroline Ellison said on the call that FTX used customer money to help Alameda meet its liabilities
12. 11. 2022 No Responses

WSJ: Caroline Ellison said on the call that FTX used customer money to help Alameda meet its liabilities

Citing ‘people familiar with the video’, the WSJ reports that Alameda employees held a video conference late Wednesday Hong Kong time, in which 27-year-old Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison (also known as @carolinecapital) said that she, Bankman-Fri...
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U.S. and EU Pension Funds Could Face Their Own “Lehman Moment”
1. 10. 2022 No Responses

U.S. and EU Pension Funds Could Face Their Own “Lehman Moment”

The Bank of England intervention this week was a result of pension funds potentially having a “Lehman Moment”. Reports noted that pension plans overseas were hastily selling bonds to try and meet margin calls, a scenario that I am certain we are...
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