November, 2017

It was not hammering the European champions 3-1, but then it was never going to be.

Just two weeks after warning of the potential for an imminent ‘Minsky Moment’, Chinese central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan has penned a lengthy article on The PBOC’s website that warns ominously of latent risks accumulating, including some that are “hidden, complex, sudden, contagious and hazardous,” even as the overall health of the financial system appears good.

The imminence of China’s Minksy Moment is something we have discussed numerous times this year.

The three

With President Donald Trump arriving in Japan today to kick off a 10-day Asia tour, the Washington Post is reporting that the only way to locate and secure all of North Korea’s nuclear weapons sites “with complete certainty” would be a ground invasion, and in the event of conflict, Pyongyang could use biological and chemical weapons, the Pentagon told lawmakers in a newly released assessment of what war on the Korean Peninsula might look like.

Submitted by Shant Movsesian and Rajan Dhall MSTA fxdailyterminal.com

In recent weeks, we have continued to look to further gains in the USD, initially led by a belief that the bearish scenario had been exhausted, but later on improving data.  Time frame is a key factor in our metrics for where we see currencies finding value, and given that we have seen some strong gains against the CAD and JPY in recent weeks, we may

While Bitcoin bulls will probably never have it so good as they have in 2017, we wonder whether many of them have stopped to think about the environmental downside of this roaring bull market. After all, back in the dot.com boom, people had ideas about potential internet businesses, issued pieces of paper representing ownership and watched their prices go parabolic parabolic. All it took was a Powerpoint presentation, some computer programming expertise and a “research”

Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com,

Record prices continue to be printed on US indices as the global multiple expansion on the heels of still ongoing record central bank intervention has yet to slow down in a significant way.

All central banks were in essence dovish in recent days and weeks, whether the FOMC, the ECB, the BOE and of course the ever active BOJ as well as the SNB as it showed a

Brighton boss Chris Hughton has refused to enter the debate over whether Lewis Dunk should be chosen by England despite lavishing praise on the central

The Dundalk manager believes it will be a challenge to hold onto his current squad for next season.

Real Madrid beat Las Palmas to close the gap on Barcelona to eight points.

Farhad Moshiri has insisted his stake in Everton was bought with his own money after questions were asked about his link to Arsenal investor Alisher

Donna Brazile’s shocking revelations about how the Clinton campaign rigged the 2016 primary to favor Hillary and disadvantage the insurgent press of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders have exposed a divide in the Democratic Party that is manifesting itself in the stark difference in tone between establishment figures, who’ve crticized Brazile and sought to rebut her claims, and members of the party’s progressive wing, who’ve offered messages of support.

Nowhere is this contrast more evident than

The Chelsea boss raced onto the pitch to celebrate with his players and fans afterwards.

Authored by Alex Thomas via SHTFplan.com,

Despite widespread attention in the press, the “Refuse Fascism” multi-city Antifa plan to remove Trump from office has completely failed, with protests in most cities turning out under a hundred people who were at times outnumbered by Trump supporters that had shown up to counter what the Soros-funded group had claimed would be millions of people intent on driving out the “fascist Trump/Pence regime.”

The group had spent

New figures just released by the Central Statistics Office reveal that the Live Register is now at its lowest since September 2008.

Current, seasonally

Jose Mourinho insisted there is still “hope” in the title race despite Manchester United falling eight points behind Manchester City following a 1-0 defeat at

It got pretty cold this weekend but it’s nothing compared to what expert forecasters have predicted the winter of 2017 will be for Ireland

The Tyrone club landed their first-ever provincial title.

West Ham United are expected to sack manager Slaven Bilic in the next 48 hours and have already held talks about David Moyes replacing him.

Amid President Trump’s visit, Abe’s calls for more sanction and general militarization, the Japanese came back from their long weekend and decided it was time to panic-sell JPY in favor of the dollar the open. The yen slumped as much as 0.6% moments ago to an 8-month low against the dollar…

… for two parallel reasons: first, Trump complained about the US-Japan trade relationship while in Tokyo for the first stop of his tour

War is coming…

This weekend’s chaos in the middle east just got considerably more serious.

Yesterday we detailed reports that the Saudis intercepted a ballistic missile over the nation’s capital Riyadh…

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At the time, Al Jazeera reported that Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for the attack, saying they launched the

A former international athlete has warned that competitive sport is headed towards a concussion crisis if a culture of denial is allowed to continue and

Authored by Matt Taibbi via RollingStone.com,

How universities, banks and the government turned student debt into America’s next financial black hole…

On a wind-swept, frigid night in February 2009, a 37-year-old schoolteacher named Scott Nailor parked his rusted ’92 Toyota Tercel in the parking lot of a Fireside Inn in Auburn, Maine. He picked this spot to have a final reckoning with himself. He was going to end his life.

Beaten down after more

The number of homeless people in Ireland continues to rise steadily, as the Government decidedly looks the other way.

8,374 people are now officially

Striker Sam Vokes believes Burnley have conquered the fear factor of playing away from home in the Premier League.

The latest weekend note by Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management, is his latest masterpiece in lyrical, stream of consciousness, financial analysis, and can be broadly divided into to broad parts: his latest take on financial markets analyzing the build up of disequilibrium which eventually culminates with discrete “flushes” that reset the system; how bold investors inevitably give up on financial sense and logic long (or just) before said flush takes place, and

Authored by Peter Korzun via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

The deployment of US Special Operations Forces in Europe is never in spotlight but it is rapidly increasing. There can be no other purpose than acquisition of capability to deliver strikes deep into Russia’s territory.

The Trump administration is relying heavily on Special Operations Forces (SOF). They are deployed to 137 countries or 70% of them in the world. At least 8,000 of SOF are operating in around 80

Marseille fans held up banners criticising suspended defender Patrice Evra ahead of their Ligue 1 clash with Caen.

There were plenty of tries and no shortage of exciting action in the Women’s All-Ireland League over the weekend.

Plus, has David Unsworth gone out with a bang as Everton manager?

Cork City manager John Caulfield led the club to its first ever league and cup double following Sunday’s FAI Cup win against Dundalk.

Here’s how the last seven days looked through the lens.

The shocking latest twist in what has been a chaotic weekend in Saudi Arabia is news that a helicopter transporting 8 high-ranking Saudi officials (including prince Mansour bin-Muqrin) has crashed in the south of the Kingdom, near the border with Yemen.

Sky News Arabia confirms an earlier report from Al-Watan news…“Newsletter: loss of a helicopter carrying a number of officials in the southern Asir, Saudi Arabia”

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CORA Staunton and Amy Dowling struck quick-fire late goals as Carnacon came from behind in sensational fashion to retain their Connacht ladies senior club football

“We are second — not fifth, sixth or seventh or eight,” he said.

As discussed last Friday, several notable surprises in the proposed GOP tax bill involved real estate, and would have an explicit – and adverse – impact on not only proprietors’ tax bills, but also on future real estate values if the republican tax bill is passed. And, as the following analysis by Barclays suggests, they may have a secondary purpose: to slam real estate values in counties that by and large voted for Hillary Clinton.

The ink wasn’t even dry yet on the just published Republican Tax Cut And Jobs Act, and within the hour UBS was already confident that it has virtually no chance of passing: As UBS chief economist Seth Carpenter wrote shortly after the publication, “to our read, the release confirms our view that tax reform is far from being a done deal. The bill contains several specifics that we believe will prove sticking points, which increase

OSLO (Reuters) – Governments will try to bolster a 2015 pact to combat climate change at annual talks in Germany

When Ireland drew Denmark for the World Cup play-off, a collective sigh of relief was almost palpable across the nation.

With the launch of electronic trading, WTI crude has jumped from the highest close since July 2015 amid Saudi turmoil which over the weekend included a crackdown on 11 Saudi princes – including billionaire Alwaleed – and dozens of current and former ministers as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, i.e. MbS, who’s backed policy of capping oil output to raise prices, consolidates power with anti-graft probe, and shortly after a helicopter that carried 8

Ahead of Trump’s visit to Asia, there were understandable concerns that a diplomatic snafu was imminent. Those concerns were partially justified after a report from Japan Times according to which Trump said Japan should have shot down the North Korean missiles that flew over the country before landing in the Pacific Ocean earlier this year. The Japanese publications cited sources who claim that Trump questioned Japan’s decision not to shoot down the missiles when he

Former Stoke defender Dionatan Teixeira has died aged 25, the Premier League club have announced.

At least 24 people have been confirmed dead after a lone gunman opened fire inside a Baptist church in the small town of Sutherland

Here’s your round-up of Sunday evening’s early NFL action.

Jason Sherlock spoke to The42 about his new book this week.

Preston North End players Seanie Maguire and Kevin O’Connor took to the pitch of the Aviva Stadium on Sunday to celebrate with Cork City supporters

There are reports this evening that a shooting incident at a Baptist church in San Antonio, Texas, has caused ‘multiple victims’.

Local media report

Caretaker boss David Unsworth hailed the “incredible spirit” Everton showed after a thrilling 3-2 victory over Watford.

Another crisis in another nation and Bitcoin prices surge to another new high. Overnight chaos in Saudi Arabia have prompted Bitcoin to jump to $7590 – a new record high – ironically as prince bin-Talal is arrested for money-laundering a week after calling Bitcoin “a fraud like Enron.” With a market cap over $125 billion, the cryptocurrency’s mysterious creator is now worth over $7 billion.

Oh the irony.

A week ago Saudi prince Alwaled

An evil coward has burst into a Church in Texas and shot it up mid-service.

It’s understood that the man burst into the Church

Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,

If there is one thing the Spain vs Catalonia conflict reminds us of, it has got to be Turkey. And that is a much bigger problem for the EU than it realizes.

First of all, Brussels can no longer insist that this is an internal, domestic, Spanish issue, since Catalan president Puidgemont is in… Brussels. So are 4 members of his government.

That moves