The futility of politics in America these days has driven the public into exactly the dream-state of zombie blood-lust depicted in so many popular video fantasies, a nightmare of decay, powerlessness, and degeneracy matching the actual condition of a disintegrating polity that has lost collective consciousness and seeks only to infect the dwindling numbers of…
The failure of Greek Prime Minister Samaras to secure sufficient votes in the third and final parliamentary attempt to select a new president has sparked a sell-off in European stocks and peripheral bonds. Up until now, the contagion from Greece has been remarkably limited. Perhaps it is the thin holiday markets that is exaggerating the knock-on…
Source We noticed a very interesting development late last week when there was a very late after-hours press release announcing what would generally be considered a normal transaction of shares in a thinly traded micro-cap mining company called Atico Mining. This tiny company is producing gold and copper from an underground mine in Colombia at…
China has zombie malls and even zombie cities, so zombie factories can hardly be a surprise. And as the malinvestments pile up, so do unrealized shadow bank losses. The Financial Times reports China Zombie Factories Kept Open to Give Illusion of Prosperity. In the shadow of a group of enormous smokestacks and abandoned foundries, a peeling…
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Ryanair Holdings (RYAAY – Snapshot Report) is the king of low cost airlines in Europe. These are the best of times for airlines as fuel costs plummet. This Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) is expected to grow earnings by the double digits in both fiscal 2015 and 2016. Ryanair is a low cost airlines that operates 1,600 daily…
OVERNIGHT MARKETS AND NEWS March E-mini S&Ps (ESH15 -0.18%) this morning are down -0.14% and European stocks are down -0.83% after Greek Prime Minister Samaras failed in a third and final attempt to get his presidential candidate, Stavros Dimas confirmed, which will trigger early elections in late Jan or early Feb. Greece’s stock market plunged over 7% to a 2-year…
Up until the Greek presidential vote made headline news, the biggest event of the day was not the full-blown bubble levitation in the Shanghai Composite which rose another 0.33% to a fresh 4 year high of 3,168 on expectations the recent PBOC targeted intervention will transform into a full blown rate cut, but the sudden drop in…
Asian stocks tip-toed higher on Monday, following fresh gains on Wall Street, while the euro wallowed near 28-month lows versus the dollar on nervousness ahead of a vote in the Greek parliament that could result in snap elections. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan edged up 0.1 percent. Tokyo’s Nikkei climbed 0.4 percent and…
According to reports, one of the first acts of the Republican congress will be to fire Doug Elmendorf, current director of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, because he won’t use “dynamic scoring” for his economic projections. Dynamic scoring is the magical-mystery math Republicans have been pushing since they came up with supply-side “trickle-down” economics. It’s based on…
