How many “AI” companies are currently listed? No, you should not include those “AI washing” their operations and earnings calls in the count. I refer to companies where AI is their core business, like advertising through internet search for Google, for example. Let me help you out, the number is…
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FED AND BOJ WILL DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN THIS WEEK TO SAVE THE STOCKS BUBBLE ONCE AGAIN
This week #FED and #BOJ have a lot to lose and very little to gain, a situation they put themselves into and that nobody tried to stop them from falling into. The money printer made so many people happy since the aftermath of the GFC, no motivation for anyone getting…
WHY THE BANK OF JAPAN IS DANGEROUSLY PLAYING WITH THE DERIVATIVES FIRE
On the 29th of April, something very special happened, yet many did not grasp the importance of the event. Even if that day was a public holiday in Japan, hence there was no real liquidity in the US Treasuries (both spot and related derivatives) market overnight hours as usual, the…
THE GREAT LIQUIDITY AVALANCHE – FROM MAG7 TO EVERYTHING ELSE?
Every avalanche always starts with that last small drop of a snowflake that makes the whole pack of snow too heavy to stick on the mountain. Since the #FED and fellow Central Banks joined the BOJ in the great money-printing crusade to “save the world” from COVID-19 in March 2020,…
MELLANOX, THE CORNERSTONE OF NVIDIA-MICROSOFT REVENUES ROUND-TRIPPING SCHEME
February 22, 2013 case number 1:2013cv01225 US District Court for the Southern District of New York Plaintiff Valentin Petrov Defendant Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (link). “The Exchange Act claims allege that Defendants engaged in a fraudulent scheme to artificially inflate the Company’s stock price. As a result of the fraud described…
WHICH BANKS ARE AT RISK OF GOING BUST IN A LIQUIDITY CRISIS? – EPISODE 2
In September 2023, I addressed for the first time the (nasty) topic of #banks’ balance sheet health in the “This time is not different” post on X. After that, I expanded the analysis to large US and European banks in “WHICH BANKS ARE AT RISK OF GOING BUST IN A…
JAPAN POST BANK IS LIKELY GOING TO BE AN EVEN BIGGER PROBLEM FOR THE BOJ THAN NORINCHUKIN BANK
Today, #Norinchukin Bank is starting to be less of an obscure name compared to more than 7 months ago when the #FED quietly added it to the list of counterparts eligible to access the standing Repo Facility the central bank established with the purpose of dealing with emergency liquidity shortfalls…
A PEEK INTO THE FUTURE: USD/JPY ROAD TO 300
Three months ago, in “Why a Historical $JPY Currency Crisis Is at the Doorstep of Japan”, we discussed the precarious state of the Japanese yen (#JPY). Considering the volume of JPY printed, the size of Japan’s economy, and its foreign reserves, the yen should have been trading at 298 against…
GME EPISODE 6: THE RETURN OF THE JEDI
What’s going to happen now to #GME? A straight answer to this question is going to be quite technical and boring, which is why I decided to borrow a bit from George Lucas’s Star Wars saga today to have some fun with it. Episode 1: “The Phantom Menace” If you…
WHY GME IS NOT A “DAVID VS GOLIATH’ STORY, BUT A “GODZILLA VS KONG” ONE
Do you remember the scene from “The Big Short” movie when Charlie and Jamie, the dynamic duo of the “bedroom hedge fund” Brownfield, stumble across Jared Vennet’s pitch in the JP Morgan lobby? If you don’t, here is the link for a quick refresher. Keith Gill, also known as @TheRoaringKitty,…