Business

Via Scotiabank's Guy Haselmann,

Rapidly Standing Still

Early last month, we asked a simple question when we learned that Martin Shkreli, pharma “bro” and the “most hated man in America” put up his $45 million E*Trade account to secure $5 million bail after he was arrested for fraud by federal authorities in December.

“Will Martin, like the E*Trade-ing Joe Campbell whose short position in KBIO blew up when Shkreli acquired more than half of the float back in November, start a GoFundMe page in the event his collapsing holdings leave him a few million short on the bail bond?”

It's a miracle - Dudely speaks, CHNJPY mysteriously spikes higher, , Crude oil soars 8%, and The Dow soars 400 points off its lows. The question is - what now - as Dow runs stops to Monday's cash open...

We are being lied to....The Federal Reserve has been telling us how great the economy is and how we are on track for higher rates as it continues to improve. However the markets are most definitely telling us something different.

The stress that the markets are experiencing has not been an overreaction; it is a perfectly reasonable and considered response to a series of real worries which perhaps one at a time would be manageable but grouped together look formidable.

Via Dana Lyons' Tumblr,

Yet another attempt at rising interest rates has spectacularly fizzled out.