Is the stock market about to crash? Hopefully not, and there definitely have been quite a few “false alarms” over the past few years. But without a doubt we have been living through one of the greatest financial bubbles in U.S. history, and the markets are absolutely primed for a full-blown crash. That doesn’t mean that one will happen now, but we are starting to see some ominous things happen in the financial world that we have not seen happen in a very long time. So many of the same patterns that we witnessed just prior to the bursting of the dotcom bubble and just prior to the 2008 financial crisis are repeating themselves again. Hopefully we still have at least a little bit more time before stocks completely crash, because when this market does implode it is going to be a doozy.
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#1 By the time the markets closed on Monday, we had witnessed the biggest three day decline for U.S. stocks since 2011. Continue reading
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Why Worst Not Over for Europe: Canada Bank Official
Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney warned on Saturday against an emerging consensus among delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the worst of the euro zone debt crisis was over.
Carney said that tail risks — an unlikely event which could prompt a market sell off — are “still out there.” Continue reading
Recession ‘taking hold’ in Eurozone, OECD says
With Greek at 24.4% in June and as the Eurozone facing an acceleration of inflation, one might expect to see more of what has taken place in Spain — just on a wider scale.
PARIS (AP) — Europe’s debt crisis is pushing the 17-country eurozone toward recession and dragging down the global economy, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Thursday.
Even growth in traditional economic powerhouse Germany is slowing, and the OECD’s interim assessment said that Europe’s largest economy could slip into recession by the end of the year.
Full article: Recession ‘taking hold’ in Eurozone, OECD says (AP)
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