On Tuesday we learned that Malaysian PM Najib Razak won’t have too much explaining to do domestically when it comes to why Saudi Arabia decided in 2013 to make a $681 million “donation” to his personal bank account.
While China's currency devaluation has, alongside the price of commodities, become one of the two key drivers of market volatility and tubulence around the globe, when it comes to risk, one far more important Chinese metric is the actual amount of capital that leaves the nation.
“These are extremely poor results,” Citi’s Andrew Coombs wrote last week after Deutsche Bank CEO John Cryan announced a “sobering” set of numbers for 2015.
By “sobering,” Cryan meant a net loss of more than $7 billion. It was the first annual loss since the crisis and was capped off by a Q4 loss of €2.1 billion which included €1.2 billion in litigation fees.
For all the traders and hedge fund managers who are under 30, Amazon has been here before, and not just once: a place where the company's growth prospects - perceived as virtually boundless - were put into question, leading to a collapse in the soaring stock price.
Indicatively, putting the company's "valuation" in context, AMZN is now trading at a PE of roughly 460x, which compares to 87x during the last peak in the summer of 2008.