MAR 20 17
SIT EC y POL
ZERO HEDGE.
ECONOMICS
CEO pay
increases took a brief pause in 2015 dropping to a paltry median of just $10.8
million. But, the CEO's of America can once again rest assured that their
families will not starve to death as 2016 pay soared nearly 7%, setting a
post-recession record.
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Financial
markets seem convinced that the recent surge in business and consumer
confidence in the US economy will soon be reflected in “hard” data, such
as GDP growth, business investment, consumption, and wages. But economists and policymakers are not so sure. (To some outside the US, it is an assumption
that sometimes looks a lot like blind faith.)
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While VIX declined last week, the cost of protecting against major market
swings has spiked above its previous Brexit-vote-day peak, reaching a fresh all-time high.
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The Fed hawks are out, explaining that... any Trump success (in a fiscal boost) will be
met with more rate hikes.
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Five-year
Treasury yields have tumbled back below 2.00% to the lowest levels in almost
three-weeks, extending the
drop amid the weakest economic growth period for a rate-hike since 1980. With net positioning
near record high shorts, and everyone and their pet rabbit sure that a
breakout above 2.15% was 'inevitable', we wonder what happens next.
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THE CRASH IS COMING FAST
Shortly after the day-session closed, NYSE Arca
reported a complete cessation of trading...
The .M Official Closing Price
indications currently on the Tape are being reviewed.
NYSE ARCA EQUITIES: OFFICIAL CLOSING PRICES
01:37 pm, 03/20/2017
For symbols that did not complete
an auction the Official Closing Price will be determined as follows:
The VWAP calculated by the SIP that
includes all last sale eligible trades in the last 5 minutes of regular trading
hours, including the closing auction prints of all markets.
If no last sale eligible trades
printed in the last 5 minutes, the consolidated last sale during regular
trading hours.
If no such same day consolidated
last sale eligible trades, the primary listing exchange's prior trading day's
OCP.
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Notably, the yield curve has flattened dramatically in the
week since The Fed hiked...
SEE ALL CHARTS AT: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-20/bank-stocks-stumble-1-month-lows-yield-curve-slumps-post-fed
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2 SHORT NEWS ON TODAYs
ECONOMY
1-
Trump May Disable Obama's
Mortgage Plan - Claim Your Federal $4,264 Savings Urgently!
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Bear Fund Traders Back In
Hibernation
Assets in mutual funds
designed to rise when stocks fall have dropped to an all-time low.
Inverse funds, or
bear funds, are of course designed to rise when stocks fall. Rydex
originally introduced these funds for active traders to utilize in playing the
downside in the stock market, or hedging. Like most
sentiment measures, assets in these bear funds typically hit contrary extremes
at turning points in the market, i.e., assets soar near market bottoms and
plunge at tops. Presently, they are plunging – to all-time lows, in fact. (Note: for purposes of this study, we are using
the combined assets of the most popular 1X and 2X inverse S&P 500, Nasdaq
100 and Russell 2000 funds)
Now, as anyone familiar with the topic knows, mutual fund assets,
in general, have been in a structural decline for about 10 years .. For
example, during the 2015-2016 stock market decline, bearish assets jumped from
an all-time low around $126 million near the May 2015 top to nearly $500 near
the February 2016 market low. Therefore,
while mutual fund assets are in a structural decline, in general, their current
all-time low level around $115 million should still be considered an extreme
relative to the recent period.
Perhaps the best takeaway of this data point is as a
measurement of potential risk. That is how we often like to think of
sentiment indicators. In other words, if the stock market were to experience a
selloff, how
much potential downside might there be?
In sum, we are
not calling for the end of the rally based on this indicator of bearish fund
assets. Sentiment is not a timing tool and the indicator can get even more
extreme in its scarcity. However, we would consider
it a sign of significant potential risk should the market turn lower
given the traders’ lack of hedging and ability to withstand much downside
currently.
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As we sit here today the IPO that was supposed to prove that the dream
of “its
different this time” were still
alive-and-well, has shown it is
anything but.
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POLITICS
FBI Director Comey chose his
words very carefully but explained that there is "no information" to support US
President Trump's tweeted claims that the
Obama administration wiretapped his offices.
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“Late in the summer they concluded based on the
polling that a lot of people were reading that Mr. Trump didn’t stand a
chance,” said Comey, although it was not clear just how the FBI knew
what the Russians "concluded" as of
last summer.
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U.S. government officials have temporarily banned most electronics on
certain flights into and out of the country, according to
Jordan’s national air carrier.
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WORLD ISSUES and ME
After raising
capital at a 35% discount over
the weekend, Deutsche Bank shares are tumbling once again - back into the
red for 2017 - after CEO John Cryan warned that revenue would be "broadly flat" in 2017.
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"There is still room for both sides to
resolve problems through co-operation and consultation, rather than just
resorting to retaliation," said a Chinese policy adviser who added
that "we
should have plans in case things go wrong."
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DEMOCRACY NOW
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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COUNTER PUNCH
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Michael Brenner The
Great Game: Power Politics or Free Play?
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SPUTNIK and RT SHOWS
Israeli Threats to Destroy Syria’s Air Defense Aimed at 'Advancing Own Interest' https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703201051785149-israeli-threats-to-syria-advancing-own-interest/
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Escalation Looming? Israel to Crush Syrian Air Defense if Jets Targeted Again https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703191051746758-israel-syria-strikes/
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Pyongyang Threatens to Reduce US to ‘Ashes’ If It Conducts Preemptive Strike https://sputniknews.com/politics/201703201051786995-dprk-threatens-attack-us-strike/
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Kurdish YPG Hope to Strengthen Cooperation With Russia in Syria https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703201051788261-ypg-hopes-russia-cooperation/
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Clinton Lost Election Due to Poorly Run Campaign, Not Russian Interference https://sputniknews.com/us/201703201051786778-clinton-elections-campaign-loss/
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Looking for a Sperm or Egg Donor? Now There’s an App for That https://sputniknews.com/science/201703201051788802-sperm-egg-donor-surrogate-app/
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RT SHOWS
On contact Birth
of American Empire with Stephen Kinzer
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WASHINGTON BLOG
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
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Se agrieta el régimen político
panameño Olmedo
Beluche
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Colombia, la paz atascada en el barro Jairo Vargas
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Porque los nukes los hacen obsoletos
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PRESS TV
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