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It's just getting ridiculous: moments after the Euronext exchange broke down unexpected duo the "technical difficulties" shutting down "part of the market", and spiking the Stoxx600 in the process, moments ago the NYSE itself decided to have a "technical glitch", one which coming alongside James "QE4" Bullard's CNBC interview has pushed S&P500 futures to their overnight highs.

From the NYSE

If and when the CME breaks next, we expect everything to lock limit up as only the upward momentum-levitating algos will be allowed to frontrun each other.

After a burst of volatility in the developed market over the past month, one odd outlier was China, where after a surge of gut-wrenching moves in both its currency and equity markets (recall that it was China's troubles with marketwide circuit breakers at the start of January that may have catalyzed the global volatility wave), Chinese stocks remained relatively quiet and resilient, levitating quietly day after day. That all changed overnight when the Shanghai Composite plunged by 6.4% with the drop accelerating into the close.

On Monday, while European stocks were soaring derivatives traders found they couldn't put any trades in when the largest European derivatives market, the Eurex Exchange, announced trading had been suspended until further notice. Then yesterday, as stocks were crashing, the NY Fed announced that "due to technical difficulties", it would cancel its 11:15 am Agency MBS POMO which unleashed the latest whopper of a short squeeze.

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A Tale of Two Crashes, Part 1

Written by Jeff Nielson (CLICK FOR ORIGINAL)

Yesterday, during his speech at CERAWeek in Houston, Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi made it explicitly clear that Saudi Arabia would not cut production, instead saying that it is high-cost producers that would need to either "lower costs, borrow cash or liquidate” adding that there is "no need for cuts as marginal barrel will get out of the market." He was right.