This Fraud Of A Company Is Trying To Sell Stock, But Who Cares: Here Are Semi-Naked Women In Bikinis

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/20/2015 - 13:24

Dow-Stockalypse-Wow: Bonds & Bullion Soar As Equities Crash

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/20/2015 - 16:04

The Currency War GOES GLOBAL

from Mike Maloney:

As a follow up to to Tuesday’s video on the ‘Well-Oiled Disaster’ that is coming, this video gives more data to show serious problems caused by a fundamentally flawed monetary system. Hang on tight.

Why Are So Many People Freaking Out About A Stock Market Crash In The Fall Of 2015?

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/20/2015 - 14:00 So why are so many prominent voices now warning that a global financial crisis is imminent? The answer is actually very simple: A global financial crisis is imminent.

America (In 9 Words)

Presented with no comment...

Donald Trump on Hillary Clinton: SHE HAS A LOT TO HIDE

from CNN:

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3 Things: Fed Stumbles, Buybacks, Stock Decline

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/20/2015 - 15:30 "The larger problem with repurchases is that debt-financed buybacks effectively put investors on margin. As corporations have borrowed in order to aggressively buy back their stock near the highest market valuations in history, existing stockholders have quietly become heavily leveraged, without even realizing it."

Bank Of America: "The Only Reason To Be Bullish Right Now Is There Are No Reasons To Be Bullish"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/20/2015 - 15:18 "Arguably the only reason to be bullish risk assets right now is there are no reasons to be bullish."

Deutsche's "Seven Signs" Flash Red-er

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/20/2015 - 15:10 Two short weeks ago, Deutsche Bank's cross-asset-class research group suggested "caution" in markets as their "seven signs" signals were flashing red. Today, there are now 13 'cautionary' indicators - up from the 10 previously as the red caution flag just got red-er...

Low Oil Prices Could Break The "Fragile Five" Producing Nations

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/20/2015 - 14:40 Persistently low oil prices have already inflicted economic pain on oil-producing countries. But with crude sticking near six-year lows, the risk of political turmoil is starting to rise. There are several countries in which the risks are the greatest – Algeria, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, and Venezuela – and, as we noted previously, RBC Capital Markets has labeled them the “Fragile Five.”

Twitter Down 65% From Highs - Crashes Below IPO Price

 But, but, but...

AAPL Is No Longer The "Most Important Stock": Presenting The Top 50 Hedge Fund Longs And Shorts

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/20/2015 - 14:24 For all those who need validation that they are part of a big hedge fund hotel club, which implicitly means there are few if any incremental fast money buyers left, and wish to know the top hedge fund holdings, here is a list of the 50 stocks which according to Goldman "matter the most" to hedge funds, the stocks which appear among the largest 10 holdings of hedge funds.

Draghi Failed: European Inflation Expectations Slide To Pre-QE Level

 When "whatever it takes" is not enough...

Fundamentally Flawed Markets & The Grey Area Between Cheating And Edge

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/20/2015 - 13:01 HFT critics are crowing over the ITG confession. You see! HFT is front running, plain and simple! Told you! And HFT defenders are largely silent because... well, you can’t defend the indefensible. However, if history is any guide at all, the existence of a clearly identifiable small-v villain will forestall the unmasking of what we believe is a Big Bad... the subterranean influence, bordering on control, of human investment behaviors by firms controlling advanced inference machines.

Nasdaq Breaks Below Key Technical Support, Plunges Most In 10 Months

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/20/2015 - 12:56 The Nasdaq has dropped almost 3.5% in the last 3 days - the biggest drop since October 2014 collapse. This drop has pushed the all-important tech high-flyer back below its 200-day moving average for the first time since Oct 10th... just before Bullard unleashed the threat of QE4...

Depression Tracker: Unemployment Soars In Latin America's Most Important Economy

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/20/2015 - 12:40 If there’s anything Brazil certainly does not need, it’s more bad news. The country is, in many ways, a symbol of the great EM unwind and the situation is made immeasurably worse by political instability. The economic outlook - which was already bad enough between a harrowing bout of staglflaton and dual deficits on the fiscal and current accounts - just got a lot worse as unemployment spiked to 7.5%, well ahead of consensus and the worst in five years. How bad is it you ask? Bad enough that BofAML now says the "key" stat to focus on is the number of participants in recurring street protests. 

Welcome To The Fed's Theater Of The Absurd

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/20/2015 - 12:20 In the current Theater of the Absurd, the world's most powerful central bank is relying on a novelty tune to maintain the hyper-speculative status quo. It would be humorous if it wasn't so tragic.

Dow Dumps 1200 Points From Record Highs To 7-Month Lows - Unchanged Since The End Of QE3

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/20/2015 - 12:13 The Dow Jones Industrial Average has gone nowhere since October 31st 2014 - The End of QE3...

Pessimism Rising - Options Markets Signal Bears Beating Bulls

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/20/2015 - 11:56 Amid the tightest range in stock market history, bearish sentiment toward stocks is rapidly worsening according to the options market. As Bloomberg reports, based on the number of puts trading compared with calls on single stocks, pessimism is higher now than any time since 2012 as "upside speculation has really fallen off a cliff." Contrarians may be rejoicing but without a QE-backing and central bank omnipotence in question, as one strategist noted, "perhaps these traders fear a greater correction coming down the pike."

Short Seller’s Journal: More On Housing

by Dave Kranzler, Investment Research Dynamics:
The only data that gets more statistically distorted and incompetently analyzed than the housing data is the Government inflation, GDP and employment numbers. In some cases it’s a toss-up. The builder sentiment index is bordering on retardation. Builders are always optimistic, especially because they use other people’s money and take fees off the top. The “sentiment” index always seems to peak at the top of the market.
Housing starts and permits are are almost equally as useless, especially seasonally adjusting and annualizing the data. Literally, a start is counted with a builder sticks shovel in the ground on land which has a permit attached.
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I only seek the truth...

Tianjin, China, cyber attacks and ‘computationally amplified warfare’ – Health Ranger warns of China’s plan to destroy America from 7000 miles away

by David Gutierrez, Natural News:
As a follow-up to our exclusive Natural News story on the Tianjin explosion in China — which also covered military helicopters in Beijing and “kinetic retaliation” by the Pentagon using exotic space weapons — I’m offering additional analysis of the global war that’s already under way (and where it’s headed).
There are two things to disclose up front. First, make no mistake: I am pro America in all this. China is an evil, communist regime that enslaves its people and commits heinous crimes against humanity (such as the organ harvesting of political prisoners). Although I am extremely critical of the corrupt Obama regime currently in power in Washington, I am 100% pro-America and pro-freedom (and especially pro-Texas). I offer this information in the hope that America can defend itself against the crippling attacks that will soon be unleashed by China.
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Cyanide Levels ‘356 Times Higher’ Than Permitted Found at Tianjin Blast Site

from DAHBOO77:

Insouciance Rules The West

from Paul Craig Roberts:
Europe is being overrun by refugees from Washington’s, and Israel’s, hegemonic policies in the Middle East and North Africa that are resulting in the slaughter of massive numbers of civilians. The inflows are so heavy that European governments are squabbling among themselves about who is to take the refugees. Hungary is considering constructing a fence, like the US and Israel, to keep out the undesirables. Everywhere in the Western media there are reports deploring the influx of migrants; yet nowhere is there any reference to the cause of the problem.
The European governments and their insouciant populations are themselves responsible for their immigrant problems. For 14 years Europe has supported Washington’s aggressive militarism that has murdered and dislocated millions of peoples who never lifted a finger against Washington. The destruction of entire countries such as Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan, and now Syria and Yemen, and the continuing US slaughter of Pakistani civilians with the full complicity of the corrupt and traitorous Pakistani government, produced a refugee problem that the moronic Europeans brought upon themselves.
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