Money & Markets – Week of 01.17.16

Saudi Arabia’s Secret Holdings of U.S. Debt Are Suddenly a Big Deal
Bloomberg | 22 January 2016
Blackout by…

Stocks Usually Go Up After Really Crappy Months
Business Insider | 22 January 2016
Seasoned pros will likely…

Schlumberger Sees No Pickup in Oilfield Activity before 2017
Yahoo Finance | 22 January 2016
Cuts to 34,000, or 26 percent…

JP Morgan CEO Gets 35% Pay Raise to $27M Amid Cutbacks
USA Today | 21 January 2016
Performance metrics…

The World Has Discovered a $1 Trillion Ocean
Bloomberg | 21 January 2016
Difficult to…

China Vice President Vows to ‘Look After’ Stock Market Investors
Bloomberg | 21 January 2016
80 percent…Shanghai and Shenzhen, versus about 15 percent in…

Economic Outlook 2016: JIR – PDF
James Capital | 01 January 2016
Positives…negatives…

2016 Will Be Catastrophic For Dry Bulk: Baltic Dry Index Sets Another Historic Low
Seeking Alpha | 21 January 2016
Rate environment is…

Cramer: The 14 Steps to a REAL Market Bottom
CNBC | 11 January 2016
Capital appreciation…

The Coal Miner `On Everybody’s List’ as Next Bankruptcy Victim
Yahoo Finance | 20 January 2016
There won’t be a…

Dow Falls 500, S&P at Lowest Level Since Late 2014 as Oil Breaks $27
Yahoo Finance | 20 January 2016
Correlation to crude, so…

Oil’s Nightmare Scenario Dominates Davos
Yahoo Finance | 20 January 2016
Third year in a row…

Davos – The Collapse in TRUST
Armstrong Economics | 20 January 2016
Trouble and they no longer…

Another Reason Why the Middle Class and the Velocity of Money Are in Terminal Decline
Charles Hugh Smith | 20 January 2016
Saved all their lives realize that…

Ruble Sets New Historic Low Against US Dollar
RT | 20 January 2016
Failed to stop the ruble’s…

Russian Capital Flight Reduced by Two-thirds
RT | 19 January 2016
Foreign debt has decreased by…

Tehran to Recoup $32Bn in Unfrozen Assets as Sanctions Lifted
RT | 19 January 2016
Reconnect to the SWIFT…

Two-thirds of Norwegian Oil Wealth Could Disappear
RT | 19 January 2016
Price change means…

World Faces Wave of Epic Debt Defaults, Fears Central Bank Veteran
Telegraph | 19 January 2016
Exclusive: Situation worse than…

The Citadel is Breached: Congress Taps the Fed for Infrastructure Funding
Counter Punch | 18 January 2016
Saying this impinges upon…

Richest 1% Now Wealthier Than the Rest of the World, Oxfam Says
Bloomberg | 18 January 2016
Rich to hide $7.6…

‘Money Monster’ Trailer: George Clooney, Julia Roberts…Taken Hostage in Financial Thriller
NY Daily News | 12 January 2016

YouTube | 12 January 2016
“Follow the money find the”…

Oil Slumps Below $28 to 2003 Low as Iran Sanctions Lifted
Reuters | 18 January 2016
Fall further if…

Francois Hollande Admits Socialist Policies Failed, Declares “Economic State Of Emergency”
Zero Hedge | 18 January 2016
“The new measures are…

Exclusive: Dallas Fed Quietly Suspends Energy Mark-To-Market On Default Contagion Fears
Zero Hedge | 16 January 2016
This is what took place..

Negative Oil Prices Arrive: Koch Brothers’ Refinery “Pays” -$0.50 For North Dakota Crude
ZeroHedge | 18 January 2016
No market to…

Trapped Inside the Zero Bound: What it Means Now that We’ve Crossed the Economic Event Horizon
Rebooting Capitalism | 14 January 2016
Now What?

Goldman to Pay Up to $5 Billion to Settle Claims of Faulty Mortgages
NY Times | 15 January 2016
$1.5 billion on an after…

Wal-Mart To Close 269 Stores, 154 In The U.S.
Value Walk | 15 January 2016
Rebranded as Neighbor…

Walmart to Shut Down 269 Stores, Including 154 in US
ABC News | 15 January 2016
Includes all Walmart Express…

Which Markets are Closed on Martin Luther King Day?
Yahoo Finance | 15 January 2016
Oil, stock futures will…

Beware: IRS Now Has Six Years To Audit Your Taxes, Up From Three
Yahoo Finance | 15 January 2016
Hot button these days involves offshore…

More Than 500,000 Adults Will Lose SNAP Benefits in 2016 as Waivers Expire
CBPPP | 15 January 2016
Unemployed childless…

Forget $20 – Oil Prices At $8 Per Barrel In Canada
Oil Price | 14 January 2016
Existential crisis…

“Nothing Is Moving,” Baltic Dry Crashes As Insiders Warn “Commerce Has Come To A Halt”
Zero Hedge | 11 January 2016
In last month it has dropped…

What Was Volkswagen Thinking?
The Atlantic | 05 January 2016
Classified as “not okay” are slowly…