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"We Should Be Concerned" - Stock Buybacks Plunge Most Since 2009

"We Should Be Concerned" - Stock Buybacks Plunge Most Since 2009

In recent days we have witnessed a massive outflow from virtually all holders of stocks. Just last week we reported that retail had just dumped the most stocks in the past 5 weeks since the August 2011 US downgrade...

... confirming a long-running trend observed with BofA smart money clients who, as we also reported last week, have sold stocks for 15 of the past 15 weeks, the longest selling stretch on record.

This has repeatedly prompted many to wonder who is buying.

Margaret Thatcher's 1988 "Bruges Speech" Explains Why Brits Should Brexit

As establishment blowback strikes following over 300 European business leaders call for the British to vote to leave the EU, it is worth remembering Margaret Thatcher’s historic speech, known as the “The Bruges Speech” delivered September 20th, 1988, in which she rejects the political union of Europe and "the federalization of Europe."

First, It Was "Fu$k the Fundamentals", Now "It's Fu$k Contracts, Too" - Negative Rates Are Doing So Well in the EU!

First, It Was "Fu$k the Fundamentals", Now "It's Fu$k Contracts, Too" - Negative Rates Are Doing So Well in the EU!

Exactly one year and one month ago, I penned "Fu$k the Fundamentals!": Negative Rates In EU Will Absolutely Wreck the Very System the ECB Sought to Save" a piece that warned of the consequences of the EU negative rate policy and how it would effect Spain and Denmark among other EU nations, in particular. To wit:

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