The Shadow Credit Crisis That Could Shock the...

Amazon just spent more than $77 billion on AI and saw $42.4b in cash OUTFLOWS. Alphabet has now lost more than $500b in market value following its largest one-day stock decline ever. Microsoft, meanwhile, is offering voluntary buyouts to more than one-quarter of its global workfo ...  Show more

HSBC just reported a 32% increase in pretax profit. And investors responded by dumping the stock as much as 7.5%. That sounds strange until you look at what was missing. That is the first clue. The second comes from the rest of Europe’s banks and what they are actually doing.And ...  Show more

A string of hawkish comments, a rise in inflation rates in Europe and a strong US employment report last week had market participants worried that interest rates were set to stay higher for longer than they had hoped, putting stocks and bonds on course for one of the worst sta ...

On today’s show we are looking at a headline article in the WSJ. 

The topic is banking. Think about it. Every bank’s risk management department would have stress tested the existing loan portfolio. They would have looked at the maturity dates of each loan, and forecast ...

The big headlines from March's banking crisis have receded and balances at some of the Federal Reserve's emergency lending facilities, like the discount window, are starting to fall. But if you look closely, there are still signs of strain in the depths of the financial system. A ...  Show more