Market extra: a major source of liquidity for buying u.s. government debt is draining. here’s why that’s bad news for the fed and the market.

A Federal Reserve liquidity facility is back in focus as stocks stumble and investors brace for an estimated $1.5 trillion borrowing need from the Tre...

October 28, 2023, 6:44 pm

Feds harker: current interest rate environment draining housing market of new buyers

Fed's Harker, president of the Philadelphia Fed, in a speech to the Mortgage Bankers Association said:Current interest rate environment ...

October 16, 2023, 2:31 pm

Wall street journal: the fed’s next challenge: $100 oil

An article in the Journal (gated) ahead of Wednesday's FOMC. Not flagging a Fed Funds rate hike this time around, but further head?traders and petrole...

September 19, 2023, 8:52 pm

Oil prices slip on global recession gloom

Oil prices fell in early trade on Tuesday as recession fears dominated headlines out of the World Economic Forum's meeting in Davos, ...

January 16, 2023, 8:46 pm

Cftc charges mango markets manipulator with fraud

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) brought fraud and ...

January 10, 2023, 5:29 am

Equity cefs: top picks for 2023

2022 was a year to forget, while most believe 2023 will begin with the same issues that took the equity and bond markets well into bear market territo...

January 9, 2023, 12:29 pm

Ftx collapse has nervous crypto investors draining bitcoin from exchanges at near-record rates

Glassnode tweeted that there had been three other periods in recent years with similar withdrawal patterns, April and November 2020 and June to July 2...

November 15, 2022, 5:01 am

Breaking: ftx hacked: $1bn drained from ftx and ftx us accounts so far

The FTX drama continues.

Just hours after ...

November 12, 2022, 7:31 am

Volatile oil and expanding qt are clear and present dangers to the financial system

With the Fed draining $95 billion in liquidity from the banking system as it accelerates QT, things cou...

September 7, 2022, 7:20 am

Analysts on walmart's profit warning: consumers are buckling under inflation pressure and draining their covid reserves

The shoe dropped for Walmart on Monday night, when the largest U.S. retailer warned on profits due to the impact of inflation....

July 26, 2022, 6:24 am

Spy: liquidity is being sucked out of the stock market rapidly

Usage of the Fed Reverse Repo Facility has been hitting new highs. The usage is draining liquidity from...

June 24, 2022, 12:05 pm

Everest re and the return of the value of float

Everest Re is a well-managed reinsurer, consistently performing in the top of its class, achieving good growth in book value per share with lower than...

May 16, 2022, 4:02 am

Relief rally extends; fdx, gme post mixed results

We're still basking in the 25 basis-point interest rate hike from the Fed yesterday, with no draining o...

March 17, 2022, 7:33 pm