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Just as we warned was likely, the once infamous hedge fund hotel US solar company SunEdison unit TerraForm Global said on Tuesday there was "substantial risk" that SunEdison would soon seek bankruptcy protection  given liquidity difficulties, noting that "such an action would have a material adverse effect” on TerraForm Global.

In 2016 alone, SUNE has collapsed from a hope-strewn $6 price to just 73c this morning...

As we detailed last week, the sun is about to set for this solar company...

About a decade ago, Christian Leone's Luxor Capital was one of the biggest brand names in the industry, and alongside Harbinger and DB Zwirn, every trader and analyst on Wall Street wanted to work there. Since then things have changed.

• Headline of the day: Oil prices fall as investors' faith in rally wanes (Reuters)
• Europe shares, dollar gain as investors look to Yellen (Reuters)
• Chinese Bidder for Starwood Has Mysterious Ownership Structure (WSJ)
• Germany wants refugees to integrate or lose residency rights (Reuters)
• BlackRock Joins Pimco Warning Investors to Seek Inflation Hedge (BBG)
• Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns: A Financial-Crisis Mystery Is Solved (WSJ)
• Contract Workforce Outpaces Growth in Silicon-Valley Style ‘Gig’ Jobs  (WSJ)

With Europe back from Easter break, we are seeing a modest continuation of the dollar strength witnessed every day last week, which in turn is pressuring oil and the commodity complex, and leading to some selling in US equity futures (down 0.2% to 2024) ahead of today's main event which is Janet Yellen's speech as the Economic Club of New York at 12:20pm, an event which judging by risk assets so far is expected to be far more hawkish than dovish: after all the S&P 500 is north of 2,000 for now.

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Posted with permission and written by Gary Christenson, The Deviant Investor (CLICK FOR ORIGINAL)