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From ZH A few weeks have passed since the investing public received an update on the SEC block trading probe that had captured Wall Street’s attention before the market ructions that briefly sent the Nasdaq into a bear market earlier this month emerged. As we learned earlier this year, the probe had ensnared Morgan Stanley […]
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Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, The game theory dictates that Bitcoin will become a global reserve asset Some time around 2010 I took a course at the Ben Graham Center for Value Investing at UWO (University of Western Ontario, in London, Canada), taught by the eminent Dr. George Athanassakos. He was the guy who unleashed a […]
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From ZH Russians who want to convert their rapidly devaluing rubles, as Joe Biden was quick to point out today… … into dollars or any foreign currency, are stuck for at least the next six months In a statement on Tuesday, the Bank of Russia banned banks from selling cash currency to citizens who do […]
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By Tyler Durden, Over the past week, we first noted that amid broad economic sanctions, there were numerous Russian gold refiners on the LBMA’s “Good Delivery” list, and subsequently we said that this “begged the question as to what would the LBMA do about the large number of Russian gold refineries on the LBMA Good Delivery Lists, refiners which […]
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From ZH Last week, some on Wall Street were quietly gloating when the “Lehman Weekend” consequences predicted by repo guru Zoltan Pozsar failed to materialize and central banks did not flood global markets with a torrent of liquidity, in a repeat of what happened in September 2008. In his latest not published late on Friday, the […]
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By Tyler Durden, Yesterday, when reporting that both Visa and MasterCard had suspended operations in Russia just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on the companies to halt all business in Russia during a video call with U.S. lawmakers, we said that “with this latest escalation in Russia’s comprehensive expulsion from the western financial system, expect […]
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From ZH Last week, following reports that as part of its countersanctions, the Russian central bank had banned payments to foreign owners of ruble bonds known as OFZ, we said that it was now just a matter of days if not hours, before Russia was in technical default (similar to what happened in 1998 when a Russian […]
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From ZH For holders of Russian equities, the past week has been nothing short of a surreal, modern-day version of Dante’s 10th circle of hell, where in the span of just a few days virtually all Russian stocks have seen their value wiped out as a result of a barrage of western sanctions that have […]
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