It's beginning to seem like every day there's a new scandal breaking out at Wellls Fargo.
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal dished on Wells Fargo’s latest scandal when it reported that several regulators and even one US attorney were investigating the bank for gouging clients of its foreign-exchange trading desk.
Janet Yellen's last semi-annual testimony before Congress as Fed Chair has just concluded, and as usual it was filled with long-winded platitudes, which were enough to make the blood of anyone actually listening to her slow-motion drawl, come to a boil.
Is this what happens when the bagholder-of-last-resort is removed from the market?
As we detailed earlier in the year, institutions and hedge funds have been using this exuberant rally in stocks to dump their holdings to retail admirers.
So what happens when arguably the largest retail brokerage - where all the "useful idiots" reside - goes down?
As The Wall Street Journal reports, a technical error at Fidelity Investments on Wednesday blocked millions of customers from their online brokerage accounts.
CNBC busily defending the utter bloodbath in semi stocks as nothing to worry about... but this is the biggest plunge for these market darlings since Brexit (June 2016)...
...and just happens to have occurred as the index finally cleared the 2000 dotcom peak...
FANG Stocks are getting smashed - the biggest drop since Feb 2016...
The key factor is that Momentum is getting monkey-hammered...
For the biggest drop since the election...
And meanwhile - Nasdaq VIX has exploded...
Authored by Peter Tchir via Forbes.com,
We have all heard the VIX or volatility index referred to as the Fear Index or Fear Gauge. Rising VIX was meant to signal fear in the markets. That is how most investors have historically thought about VIX and traded it (directly or through Exchange Traded Products).