Regulator warns of US farm asset bubble
The next asset bubbles with potential to endanger the US financial system are in farm property and Treasury bonds, a leading regulator has warned, reports the FT. Sheila Bair, who chairs the Federal...
View ArticleThe silver crowd
The wonders of Google auto-suggest, silver vox pop edition: Continue reading: The silver crowd
View ArticleThe great Aussie bank share price bubble
Via UBS: The Aussie banks are very good companies. They are profitable, resilient, well capitalised, well managed, shareholder focused and have a very strong industry and regulatory structure. However,...
View ArticleThat was nuts. Is this the Dubai crash?
Dubai stocks went bonkers last year, along with Qatar, distorting the performance of the (anyway tiny) frontier markets index. Locals rediscovered their lust for equities, while foreigners were excited...
View ArticleThis time is not different, USD edition
Nasdaq in the 1990s, Dow in the 1920s, silver and gold in the late 1970s, USDRUB, Bitcoin and oil more recently… An example of spurious pattern searching or prescient warnings of a dollar bubble?...
View ArticleThis is nuts. When’s the crash?
Yes, dot-com comparisons are flung about all too easily. But it’s quite hard to argue with the fairness of this one from Bloomberg: The world-beating surge in Chinese technology stocks is making the...
View ArticleConsensus bubble in China?
From Morgan Stanley’s China Pulse survey first (via @jjeswani): In June, more than half of the investors believed Shanghai A-shares were already in a bubble vs. only 12% holding this view in...
View ArticleThis is nuts: China blames the shorts
Chinese regulators have markets exactly backwards. Late on Thursday they announced an investigation into manipulation by short sellers, while the futures exchange seems to be discouraging people...
View ArticleIt’s fine, there’s plenty of China bubble fear for everyone
Credit Suisse would like to direct your attention away from that 7 per cent growth figure and back towards “China’s combination of a triple bubble (with the third biggest credit bubble, the biggest...
View ArticleBubble threshold watch
You may remember Citi saying before that “modern fund management is almost hard-wired to produce bubbles” and that a “weary client once defined a bubble to us: “something I get fired for not owning”....
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