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While the debate rages if retail investors have eased on their boycott of the stock market, making it increasingly difficult for institutional investors to dump their holdings of risk assets to Joe and Jane Sixpack even as active investors continue to suffer unprecedented redemptions amid a historic shift from active to low-cost, factor-driven passive management, in today's Sunday Start note from Morgan Stanley Andrew Sheets, the cross-asset strategist points out that the next $1.5 trillion market opportunity may be a fusion of retail and institutional preferences, namely a low-cost quant a

Two years ago, long after we first suggested that the transformation of VIX from a measure of implied market volatility to a reflexive instrument that can be traded - and thus influence the underlying assets whose volatility it was supposed to measure - allowed the VIX to serve as the "fulcrum security" for broad asset manipulation, first the FT, then the WSJ confirmed what we said, namely that pervasive market manipulation was not only possible, but took place on a regular basis, courtesy of the VIX (see "Conspiracy "Fact" - VIX Manipulation Runs The Entire Market" and "Another Rigged Mark

Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com

A new study shows 57% of Australia mortgage holders could not handle a $100 increase in their loan repayment.

Stress has turned up in even the wealthiest cities.

But who is truly wealthy? Paper profits on homes with enormous mortgages does not constitute wealth.

Please consider $100 Tipping Point for 57% of Mortgage Holders.

Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

Are you ready for mass chaos in Washington?

Back in June, one of Wall Street's more philosophical derivatives strategists, DB's Aleksandar Kocic looked at the state of the market and postulated that far from "stable" the existing risk  "equilibrium" is one which can be described as "metastable", the result of widespread complacency, and which he compared to an avalanche where "a totally innocuous event can trigger a cataclysmic event (e.g.