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There were two explicit warnings about stock market valuations in the latest Fed Minutes: first, the Fed warned that "vulnerabilities associated with asset valuation pressures had edged up from notable to elevated, as asset prices remained high or climbed further, risk spreads narrowed, and expected and actual volatility remained muted in a range of financial markets." Then, in an odd admission, the Fed said that "recent rises in equity prices might be part of a broad-based adjustment of asset prices to changes in longer-term financial conditions, importantly including a lo

Amended statements from The White House have left investors doubting whether Gary Cohn will "remain" at The White House and that has sent stocks plunging to "Fire & Fury" lows and VIX back above 15...

VIX back over 15...

For now, Nasdaq is leading the charge lower..

Nasdaq VIX is surging...

The first time we laid out the dire calculations about what is perhaps the biggest mystery inside China's financial system, namely the total amount of its non-performing loans, by former Fitch analyst Charlene Chu we called it a "neutron bomb" scenario, because unlike virtually every other rosy forecast the most dire of which topped out at around 8%, Chu argued that the amount of bad debt in China was no less than a whopping 21% of total loans.

Authored by Nick Cunningham via OilPrice.com,

One of the key objectives for OPEC is to bring down inventories, a goal that has been elusive this year. But if the oil futures curve is anything to go by, the oil market is showing signs of tightening.

The Fed confirmed yesterday that stocks are in a bubble.

Lost amidst the usual Fed-speak about inflation and other items were the following nuggets.

1)   “Equities” (read: stocks) were the primary reason the Fed discussed financial stability risks.

2)   The Fed raised its assessment of financial stability from “notable” to “elevated.”

3)   The Fed discussed “stock valuations.”

This is simply incredible. Remember, we're talking about the Fed here... a group of people who go above and beyond to ignore risks in order to maintain the status quo.