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Eric Peters On Tipping Points: "It All Worked Incredibly Well, Until It Blew Up"

Eric Peters On Tipping Points: "It All Worked Incredibly Well, Until It Blew Up"

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

Dollar Ends Best Week Of The Year With A Whimper As Global Stocks Push All Time Highs

Dollar Ends Best Week Of The Year With A Whimper As Global Stocks Push All Time Highs

The dollar rally paused on Friday and looked poised to finish its best weekly gain of the year with a whimper, when in a repeat of the Thursday session the, Bloomberg dollar index first rose more than 0.1% during Asia hours before slumping around the European open as month and quarter-end flows came into play again.

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