Back in March we demonstrated how much of a historical outlier recent energy stock prices are, when we showed the ridiculous forward P/E multiple associated with energy stocks, whose earnings have collapsed not only historically but also on a forward multiple basis, resulting in a 50+ P/E forward multiple: something unprecedented in history.
A month after admitting to rigging precious metals markets, Deutsche Bank has been hit with a double-whammy of more alleged fraudulent behavior today and the stock is sliding. First, Reuters reports that the bank took a charge of 450 million euros for "equity trading fraud," and then Bloomberg reports that The SEC is looking into Deutsche's post-crisis mortgage positions.
First, as Reuters reports,
Submitted by Christoph Gisiger via Finanz und Wirtschaft,
Eugene Fama, professor of finance and Nobel laureate thinks that negative interest rates won’t help to bring back growth and warns that big banks are still posing a high risk to the financial system.
Forex continues to mystify many investors, and accountants too. Yet, Forex becomes every day more and more, the most significant tail risk to any portfolio. British stocks?Here's a potential Brexit smashing the GBP. Only invest domestically? Just wait for another otherwise excellent company to report billions of losses due to "Currency Headwinds." Checkout the latest Forex blunder, from SABMiller (OTCPK:SBMRY):
In the aftermath of the Panama Papers revelations, US authorities including the IRS appear to have begun a crackdown on tax evaders (if staying away from Washington D.C. for the time being for obvious reason), and according to Bloomberg they just landed a juicy target in the face of Morris Zukerman, a former head of Morgan Stanley’s energy group who now runs a private investment firm, who was indicted in Manhattan on charges of evading more than $45 million of federal and New York state taxes.