Update: *SHANGHAI COMPOSITE INDEX FALLS 2.04%(AFTER BEING UP 3.2%)
And CSI Futures are tumbling...
Not a pretty week...
Shifting notavkly from the opening color that we detailed earlier..
By EconMatters
Natural Gas Prices Bottomed
Submitted by Arthur Berman via OilPrice.com,
Daniel Yergin and other experts say that U.S. tight oil is the swing oil producer of the world.
They are wrong. It is preposterous to say that the world’s largest oil importer is also its swing producer.
There are two types of oil producers in the world: those who have the will and the means to affect market prices, and those who react to them. In other words, the swing producer and everyone else.
A swing producer must meet the following criteria:
Perth Mint Silver Coins Sales Surge 56%, Gold Sales Drop 16% In 2015
The Perth Mint’s annual silver coins sales surged 56%, while gold sales fell 16% in 2015, as silver stackers continued to accumulate silver coins and bars and the new silver nugget or kangaroo coin (1 oz and 5 oz) saw very high levels of demand.
It's all up to China tonight, and if early ETF indications are correct, today's US equity bloodbath is about to spill over right back into Chinese markets again, only this time without the benefit of circuit breakers making it an early close for local traders if they manage to push the market down 7% in 29 minutes.