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Wall Street Investors have officially abandoned the Housing Market. With Redfin reporting a colossal 49% crash in investor purchases in Q1 2023. This is the biggest annual decline on record. Even bigger than the drop that occurred in 2005 right before the last crash. pic.twitter.com/9GyHqzHCKl — Nick Gerli (@nickgerli1) May 31, 2023 2) Higher interest …
RELAX everything’s going to be fine, if there was ANY chance of collapse all the “experts” on the main collapse subreddit would be all over this. /s via realclearmarkets: “In purely technical terms, all these together are betting heavily on lower interest rates all over the world in the not-too-distant future. As they’ve come to …
by okie1 New data just came in. Use of fed’s liquidity facilities declined again: View post on imgur.com This is where the money was coming from to create the demand for T bills, which is what was bringing rates down at the lower end of the yield curve. T bills are a cash equivalent that …
by TheNewbieInvestor Everytime this happened, the Fed pivoted 2-year yield has now moved below the Fed funds rate pic.twitter.com/8fsrsDToh2 — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) March 17, 2023 Looks like my hunch was correct. This tweet was from Thursday, the day before #SVB failed. QE unofficially resumes on Monday. #Powell folded. The #Fed has pivoted. Americans will pay …
“We need to keep raising rates until something breaks and inflation eases” <Something breaks> “Wait wait no, not that thing.” It’s very important that inflation is brought into check by poor people losing their jobs. Not rich people losing their deposits. NEW Banking Crisis In One Chart, Inflation=Fed Rate Hikes=Treasury/MBS Duration Increases=Bond Loss So, the Biden Administration …
Fed Loaned $160 Billion to Banks and $142 billion to FDIC. But QT-Related Roll-off Continued At around 4.75%, plus collateral, these are expensive loans for banks. The Fed’s Discount Window Soared to Its Highest Level Since the Previous Financial Crisis of 2008 Fed Dead Redemption! Flight To Safety As US Treasury 10-Year Yield Drops …
🚨#BREAKING: Signature Bank, has been closed by State authorities. — R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) March 12, 2023 Regulators closed New York’s Signature Bank, citing systemic risk. Signature is one of the main banks to the cryptocurrency industry. As of Dec. 31, Signature had $110.4 billion in total assets …
Another Bank specializing in Tech loans and services for “High Net Worth Individuals”, but more of a Public bank than SVB was. The cashless society people really want that cash! https://twitter.com/_/status/1634783756656492544 https://twitter.com/_/status/1634790617627914240 View post on imgur.com Contagion has already spread. My local First Republic Bank was closed today (normally open), could not do wires or …
via benzinga: PacWest Bancorp shares are trading lower by 28.61% to $14.20 Friday morning. The stock is sharply lower as shares of several regional banks and financial institutions sell off on downward momentum after SVB Financial Group Wednesday announced a $1.25 billion common stock offering. SVB Financial Group was also halted during pre-market trading Friday …
As long as they can fill in more money they won’t have to take any losses. Ohh wait, what happened to SVB. Translate for Retails… Unrealized gains or losses on investment securities refer to the changes in the value of an investment that have not yet been realized through a sale or disposition of the …
SVB works with literally like half of all US VC-backed startups, and is similarly popular for their banking services in the UK and wider Europe. If they find they’ve lost any significant portion of their funding then we’re going to see a large wave of western start-ups wiped/ significantly hobbled by SVB collapsing. $42B WITHDRAWN …
by Infamous_Sympathy_91
And it's not just Downpayments. Average Debt to Income Ratios today are comparable to mid-2000s. Meaning that homebuyer incomes, on average, are just as stretched in their ability to afford the mortgage payments. pic.twitter.com/3wIVJvidCS — Nick Gerli (@nickgerli1) August 14, 2022 But on average Mortgage Lending Standards are just as bad by the two most …
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1558940610421174272 Switzerland: The country's energy situation is serious and we have requested supplies from Germany and Italy. — The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) August 14, 2022 United Kingdom annual inflation June, 2020: 0.6% June, 2021: 2.5% June, 2022: 9.4% — The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) August 14, 2022 Current Western energy policy https://t.co/9UwVIXCnuF — Tracy Shuchart (𝒞𝒽𝒾 ) (@chigrl) …