Indonesia Impaled: Currency Crashes To 1998 Asian Crisis Low As Exports Crater
Submitted by Tyler D.
08/18/2015 - 07:53
On Monday we laid out the rather dire road ahead for the world’s emerging economies in the face of China’s entry into the global currency wars. The path ahead is riddled with exported deflation and decreased trade competitiveness for a whole host of emerging economies [and] all of this is set against a backdrop of declining global growth and trade, a trend which many had assumed was merely cyclical, but which in fact may prove to be structural and endemic." Well don’t look now, but trade just collapsed for Indonesia as exports and imports plunged 19.2% and 28.4% (more than double to consensus estimate), respectively in July. Meanwhile, the rupiah is sitting near multi-decade lows.
Walmart Stock Slides After EPS Miss, Profits Tumble, Full Year Guidance Slashed
Submitted by Tyler D.
08/18/2015 - 07:27
It may not rely on such tech bubble (ver 1.0 and 2.0) buzzwords as eyeballs, clicks, "story", "sharing", "hyperxxxx, "non-GAAP" and so on, in fact with 2.2 million worldwide employees Wal-Mart is as old-school as it gets, which is why the fact that what was once the world's most valuable retailer (until Amazon dethroned it a month ago) just reported not only a miss, on tumbling operating earnings, but slashed its guidance by 7%, should be very troubling to anyone who still looks as such trivial things as "fundamentals" and how these reflect the even more trivial "economy."
The Fed Is Scared To Raise Rates, Ron Paul Warns "Everything Is Too Vulnerable"
Submitted by Tyler D.
08/17/2015 - 20:20
The Fed is too scared to raise interest rates in the middle of an already weak recovery and risk sending the U.S. economy back into recession, or worse... The Fed chief "does not want to be responsible for the depression that I think we’ve been in the midst of all along," Paul added, "everything is vulnerable, so we’re living in very dangerous times."