Global Financial Crisis Coming – Japan Warns of “Lehman-Scale” Crisis At G7
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned his Group of Seven counterparts on Friday that the world may on the brink of a global financial crisis on the scale of Lehman Brothers.
We got an early hint of what the PBOC would do tonight on Friday and Saturday, when as we reported, an unprecedented volume burst of bitcoin buying out of China, sent the digital currency soaring to the highest level since 2014.
To be sure, we had expected sailing would not be smooth for the FX market, when on Friday afternoon, after Yellen's' unexpectedly hawkish comments at Harvard, which sent the USD surging, we predicted a stormy sea for the Monday Yuan fix:
CNY will be interesting on Sunday night
We have tracked the problems of recently junked Noble Group - Asia's largest commodity trader - extensively over the past year (see "Noble Group’s Kurtosis Awakening Moment For The Commodity Markets", "Junk Isn't Very Noble: Asia's Largest Commodity Trader Responds To Moody's Downgrade", "Noble Group’s Cliffhanger", "Noble Group’s "Collateral Margin Call", "Noble Group's "Margin Call" Part II: The Enron Moment").
There once was a time (at least in banished Austrian economic circles) when low market interest rates signaled to entrepreneurs a positive environment in which to make investments in order to grow or create new product. That indicator has long since been broken as central banks muddy the waters and arbitrarily move interest rates wherever they feel 'optimal', including corporate bond rates.
By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.at
In a misguided and desperate attempt to fight the headwinds of deflation (a byproduct ofunsustainable debt which the market has been trying to unwind for the past decade), central bankers have manipulated markets with a range of tools. This ranges from a lot of preposterous jawboning to quantitative easing and slashing interest rates all the way down to levels never experienced before.