Tag Archives: gilts

Fearing Labour, Joining China, Humiliating ‘Yahu, Steering Greece

Posted on March 26, 2010 by stacyherbert| 175 Comments

Stacy Summary: Good morning! There is also Goldman joining Nigeria, but it had too many syllables to fit into headline.

Investors fear a Labour win

Goldman Sachs’ Hu may join China’s Central Bank

Netanyahu ‘humiliated’ after Obama ‘dumps him’ for dinner

EU steers Greece to IMF

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Tagged china, gilts, goldman, greece, imf, labour, netanyahu, nigeria, obama

Hat Tip Monday: Credit card defaults, interest rates & a gilts row

Posted on July 27, 2009 by stacyherbert| 51 Comments

Stacy Summary: Thanks for the great headlines.

Huge gilts row barely registers as UK sleepwalks into stagnation (h/t Mike/Liverpool)

Europe braces for credit card defaults (h/t Mongo)

Kevin Rudd warns interest rates to rise fast (h/t Mini US)

Chinese steelworkers beat manager to death (h/t Wilson)

Oil: The market is the manipulation (h/t Lord Rothschild)

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Tagged chinese steelworkers, credit card defaults, gilts, kevin rudd

‘Green shoots’, ‘bottoms’ and bond vigilantes

Posted on June 1, 2009 by stacyherbert| 53 Comments

Stacy Summary: These headlines contradict any pronouncements on ‘green shoots’ and ‘bottoms.’ Speaking of bottoms, did you see the Bruno / Eminem clip? You will have to hunt that down for as soon as it goes up on Youtube, Viacom has it taken down. Also, I am looking for interesting New Zealand, Australian and/or other Asia Pacific headlines for our show this week.

Black Swan fund makes huge bet on hyperinflation

Get ready for Credit Crisis, Part 2!

The showdown at the money printing corral: bond vigilantes vs US quantitative easing

The US dollar ‘the only game in town?’

Gilts lose allure on bottomless banker welfare pit

Taxpayer bites more losses on Bradford & Bingley as mortgage holders default

Alistair Darling to be investigated for his expenses claims

Your money is safe with the FDIC . . . really

[Denninger's] Disclosure: Short the American people, who appear to be as dumb as a box of rocks for putting up with this crap.

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Tagged black swan, bond vigilantes, bradford & bingley, fdic, gilts, hyperinflation

Headlines, Headlines, Headlines – 13 April 2009 [Updated]

Posted on April 13, 2009 by stacyherbert| 21 Comments

Stacy Summary: The global currency and sovereign debt grid are once again in today’s headlines; and those headlines are ominous for the economic futures of US & UK.

China sold US Treasuries heavily in January and February

Are bond market vigilantes saddling up?

China must make yuan convertible to extend influence

Baugur properties transferred to its chairman’s personal account weeks before collapse of company

Bouncers, ex-soldiers & former policemen being used for ‘crowd control’ against British school children

Nanomaterials used in 100 common food products & packaging in US, including in Miller Light and Cadbury’s chocolate

Crackdown on tax havens grants monopoly to UK’s Channel Islands

Iceland’s business minister concedes country’s banking system similar to Enron

Updated:

US taxpayer will deliver Goldman Sachs the second best quarterly profits in their history

Did ex-Goldman CEO, Hank Paulson, payout $100 billion to Goldman on AIG bets?

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Tagged Add new tag, baugur, bond vigilantes, channel islands, china, enron, gilts, goldman sachs, iceland, jon asgeir Johannesson, nanomaterials, us dollar, US treasuries

Headlines, Headlines, Headlines – 26 March 2009

Posted on March 26, 2009 by admin| 6 Comments

The fabric of the global financial system continues to unravel it seems. Geithner, as the breaking headline yesterday noted, has suggested the US is up for a global currency to replace the dollar and the UK is unable to sell its debt.