Major bond settlement house seeks to have gold trading on the blockchain by the end of the year
8:57 AM
On April 11 one of the world's largest bond settlement facilities announced they have completed the initial phases of a gold trading platform on the blockchain that they hope to bring fully...
Global central banks dump U.S. debt at record pace
by Patrick Gillespie @CNNMoneyAugust 16, 2016: 10:53 AM ET
Global central banks are unloading America's debt.
In the first six months of this year, foreign central banks sold a net $192 billion of U.S. Treasury bonds, more than double the...
Fortunes Will Be Made & Lost When Capital Flees To Safety
As safe havens are tiny markets
by Adam Taggart
Friday, June 24, 2016
Little did I realize when creating the short video below how prescient it would quickly become in the wake of last night's Brexit vote...
It's message is simple...
Frontrunning: May 2
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/02/2016 07:44 -0400
Puerto Rico Development Bank Won’t Make Most of a Debt Payment Monday (WSJ)
Why the jump in futures? Tokyo slide keeps mood downbeat (Reuters)
Indiana to test Donald Trump’s staying power with evangelicals (Reuters)
Gold...
This Firm Saw Almost $2 Billion Inflows Into ETP Market
by Neils Christensen for Kitco News
Thursday March 31, 2016 14:11
(Kitco News) - One market pioneer in the creation of exchange-traded products (ETPs) says that they have seen unprecedented demand for gold-backed ETPs since the start of...
The Year Of The Red Monkey: Volatility Reigns Supreme
To preserve capital, you need to outsmart the monkey
by Charles Hugh Smith
Friday, March 11, 2016, 3:16 PM
Tags: bonds, bubble, central banks, crisis, currency, financial markets, fire monkey, interest rates, NIRP, recession, red...
Billionaire to central banks: We don't want negative rates
by Matt Egan @mattmegan5 March 9, 2016: 12:00 PM ET
What the heck is a 'negative' interest rate?
Bond king Jeff Gundlach hates just about everything these days.
The elite investor thinks the spike in oil prices is unsustainable...
This bizarre rule in the US is a huge risk to your investments
Simon Black
March 9, 2016
Sydney, Australia
Human beings have come up with some crazy ideas for money and finance over the years.
Conch shells. Beads. Animal skins. Salt. Rice. All of these were used as a form of money at one...
Low oil price claims another victim — Goodrich Petroleum to miss bond interest payment
By Ciara Linnane
Published: Mar 8, 2016 1:19 p.m. ET
Exploration firm hopes exchange offer will hold off Ch. 11 filing
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Goodrich Petroleum Corp. has become the latest oil company to fall...
COT Gold, Silver and US Dollar Index Report - February 26, 2016
By: GoldSeek.com
COT Gold, Silver and US Dollar Index Report - February 26, 2016
Gold Seeker Weekly Wrap-Up: Gold and Silver End Slightly Lower on the Week
By: Chris Mullen, Gold-Seeker.com
Gold fell $21.52 to as low as...
The Walking Dead: Something is Rotten in the Banking System
February 12th, 2016
Pater Tenebrarum: A Curious Collapse – Ever since the ECB has begun to implement its assorted money printing programs in recent years – lately culminating in an outright QE program involving government bonds...
The Big-Oil Bailouts Begin
by Don Quijones • January 30, 2016
The hundred-billion-dollar question.
By Don Quijones, Spain & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET.
Low oil prices continue to sow fear, uncertainty, and mayhem across the emerging market complex. On Wednesday, it was leaked that the...
The Deflation Monster Has Arrived
And it sure looks angry
by Chris Martenson
Friday, January 15, 2016, 7:53 PM
Tags: bonds, bubble, central banks, crash, crisis, debt, Fed, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, recession, stocks
As we’ve been warning for quite a while (too long for my taste): the...
The Deflation Monster Has Arrived
And it sure looks angry
by Chris Martenson
Friday, January 15, 2016, 7:53 PM
As we’ve been warning for quite a while (too long for my taste): the world’s grand experiment with debt has come to an end. And it’s now unraveling.
Just in the two weeks since the...
A “WITCH’S BREW” BUBBLING IN BOND ETFs
We believe the Credit Cycle has turned and with it will come some massive unexpected shocks. One of these will be the fall out in the Bond Market, centered around the dramatic growth explosion in Bond ETFs coupled with the post financial crisis regulatory...