Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
Over the last two months, the deterioration in the economic data has become much more prevalent despite the ongoing hopes of the more “bullishly biased” mainstream media.
Furthermore, as I predicted early last year, the Federal Reserve likely made a mistake in hiking interest rates when the economic and inflationary backdrop were exceedingly weak. To wit:
The centrally-planned party is over. Here is BofA's Kama Sharma explaining why
The sense of calm which had descended on markets in recent weeks has come to an abrupt end.
This time it has been the USD which has been the focal point. Investors continue to rotate through a vicious circle of concerns on China, commodities and US growth and with a still large long position, further near-term USD losses are likely as broader US data momentum remains weak.
Don't just blindly follow someone else's path... (FF to 40 seconds for today's analogy)...
The Nasdaq's collapse now turns it red since the end of QE3 - joing the rest of the US equity party poopers...
We warned earlier in the week that the credit risk of the world's financial institutions were on the rise and that trend has worsened as the week ends.
Global Bank Risk is spiking...
European Bank Risk is blowing out in Core and Peripheral nations...
And China Bank credit risk has broken to new cycle highs..
Some idiocysncratic names to keep an eye on...
To be sure, the rumors have been there for a while.
As we first wrote in March of 2015 when it became a topic of conversation, speculation that Cushing may fill, and even overflow, has been around for nearly 10 months.
As we reported then, there were floating predictions that Cushing may top out as soon as the summer of 2015.