Earlier today, when Bank of America said that "panic is building" in the market and asked, rhetorically, "how bad could it get", it listed what it thought are the five core pillars in the bailed out bank's wall of worry:
While the biggest bankruptcy story of the day is this morning's chapter 11 filing by Arch Coal, one which would trim $4.5 billion in debt from its balance sheet while handing over the bulk of the post-reorg company to its first-lien holders as part of the proposed debt-for-equity exchange, the reality is that the Arch default was widely anticipated by the market.
In late September, India “surprised” 51 out of 52 economists by cutting rates a larger than expected 50 bps.
Despite RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan’s penchant for catching markets off guard and despite the fact that exports had fallen for eight consecutive months, economists still failed to predict that anything more than 25 bps was in the cards.
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
While equities continues to plunge in what increasingly appears to be a straight line (sorry JPM) with the occasional mini short covering rally, and are fast approaching the August 24 ETFlash crash lows, the Treasury complex has been relatively quiet. While the lack of recent buying interest may be explained with concerns over ongoing reserve liquidations by the likes of China and Saudi Arabia, if Citigroup is right, that may be about to change.