Black Thursday

By Tom Westbrook and Scott MurdochSINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - As a collapse in the oil price unleashed chaos in financial markets, Madrid money manager Diego Parrilla phoned a colleague who agreed: they had better head to work early in the morning.By daybreak in Europe, the price of crude oil had…

SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - As a collapse in the oil price unleashed chaos in financial markets, Madrid money manager Diego Parrilla phoned a colleague who agreed: they had better head to work early in the morning. A man wears a protective mask as he walks on Wall Street during the…

"When it happens, you can't do much about it," said Taylor, whose experience in the Mexican, Russian and Asian financial crises in the 1990s and the global financial crisis in 2008, taught him hard lessons about liquidity and helped him prepare."People laugh at the old-fashioned techniques of the older guys,…

Opinion18:54 GMT 13.03.2020(updated 18:57 GMT 13.03.2020) Get short URLGlobal economies are currently simultaneously struggling with two sources of pressure – the coronavirus pandemic that has not only crippled the travel industry, but also production in several countries, as well as drastically falling oil prices. However, economists do not believe that…

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Rosenberg Research's David Rosenberg provides our intro today: "The fact that Treasuries, munis, and gold are getting hit tells me that everything is for sale right now. One giant margin call where even the safe-havens aren't safe anymore. Except for cash." The  Fed unveiled an unprecedented liquidity facility to rescue…

Brief History of that other economic designed crash of 1929 BBC documentary On October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. In the…

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Sorry, folks, but I’m afraid it’s here: the recession. We’ve had a good run, some 128 months of economic expansion — more than a decade, the longest expansion on record. But all good things must come to an end. Dating economic cycles is by its nature retrospective, so we won’t…