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WASHINGTON—A rising number of Chinese companies are considering delisting from U.S. stock exchanges as Washington increases its crackdown on foreign companies that fail to comply with U.S. audit standards. Chinese online travel giant Ctrip is the latest company reportedly exploring going private. The company has held early-stage talks with a number of investors including private equity firms and tech companies about funding its delisting from Nasdaq, Reuters reported. If the deal goes through, Ctrip would join other companies that are considering delisting from the U.S. exchanges, amid growing tensions between the United States and China. China’s largest online classifieds platform...

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin startled financial analysts, bankers and economists Sunday by issuing an unusual statement declaring that the nation's six largest banks had ample credit to extend to American businesses and households...Two Trump advisers, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the calls would stoke unnecessary alarm. "No one thought we were at crisis level," one of these people said. "It's going to create more of an issue than we had already." Mnuchin and the president had a call on Saturday to talk about how to reassure the markets. Aides said that Trump knew the Powell story hurt the...

Oil speculators spent the latter half of 2015 with an incredibly pessimistic view of the trajectory for oil prices. Speculators piled into short positions, pushing net-shorts to multiyear highs. But speculators are at a bit of a crossroads at this point. With oil down to $30 and below, a growing number of hedge funds and other major investors are starting to wonder whether or not the selloff has gone too far. To be sure, oil markets are still suffering from too much supply, but with so much production around the world unprofitable at today’s prices, a rally will have to...

Being it's the 13th, and therefore the Jewish New Year and the Shemitah, any word on overseas stocks, or what we might expect tomorrow morning over here? Not being a smart-aleck...I really want to know.

Trading in all symbols was temporarily halted on the New York Stock Exchange floor Wednesday due to an apparent technical issue. "NYSE/NYSE MKT has temporarily suspended trading in all symbols. Additional information will follow as soon as possible," the NYSE said in a statement on its status page. A technical issue caused the trading halt, Reuters reported, citing a source. Trading stopped around 11:30 a.m. ET.

More than two dozen companies in China are postponing initial public offerings and security companies are pledging more than $19 billion for a fund to stabilize the country’s free-falling stock market. The 28 companies, which had obtained permission from China’s securities watchdog for IPOs planned in Shanghai and Shenzhen, said they would postpone them due to recent market fluctuations and refund money already paid, the official Xinhua News agency announced late Saturday. That followed reports that regulators were asking companies to postpone the IPOs. […] The Chinese stock market has been in free-fall for three weeks, losing 28 percent of...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said what she views as optimistic market data is a sign that investors believe an agreement to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff” will be reached, that the markets “trust that we would not be so stupid as to go over the cliff.” At a Capitol Hill press conference on Thursday, Pelosi said, “If we agree that we will have a solution and that we will avoid the cliff—I think we all should agree to that—then what are the steps we need to take and how quickly can we take them, so that we at...

MARKETS ARE CRATERING: SPAIN DOWN 3.7%, ITALY DOWN 2.1%, DOW FUTURES OFF 113 Simone Foxman May 9, 2012Scroll to bottom for updates. European shares are generally higher, but Spanish stocks are cratering, down 2.2 percent after yields on 10-year bonds rose past 6 percent for the first time since April 27. The spread between Spanish 10-year bonds and German bunds of the same maturity is at its highest since November 28 (via @LemaSabachthani). This follows a negative Asian session, where the Nikkei fell 1.5 percent and the Shanghai composite closed down almost 1.7 percent. U.S. futures are lower, point to...

Barack Hussein Obama Presidential Library.. and it only cost a trillion dollars. WHAT A DEAL... A driver is stuck in a traffic jam going into downtown Chicago. Nothing is moving north or south. Suddenly, a man knocks on his window. The driver rolls down his window and asks, "What happened; what's the hold up?" "Terrorists have kidnapped Michael Moore, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Rosie O'Donnell, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. "They are asking for a $10 million ransom. Otherwise, they are going to douse them with gasoline and set them on fire. We are going...

Market watchers and technical analysts have often pointed out that financial markets often turn-around, in one direction or the other, on Tuesdays, specifically at about 10:15am. So, if history repeats itself and the pattern holds true, perhaps we will see a bounce tomorrow and a rally to a lower high in the stock market (a short-term high that is lower than the high in stock prices set back in July, hence a lower high). Technical analysts look at the cycles, trends and movement of markets in price and time, which is different from fundamental analysis which focuses on the underlying...

Investors seeking reason for optimism after the worst stock-market sell-off since the 2008 financial crisis probably won't find it in Friday's July jobs report. Economists forecast that employers added only 90,000 jobs last month and that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.2 percent, according to a survey by FactSet. That would mark an improvement over the 18,000 net jobs created in June — the fewest in nine months — and the 25,000 in May. But over time, 90,000 new jobs a month wouldn't even be enough to keep the unemployment rate from rising. Nor would it erase fears on...

The lesson from the Great Depression is that the gold standard created DEFLATION because you could not increase the amount of gold in proportion to economic and population growth. The EURO is doing the same thing. By holding Greece to the Euro, their obligations are rising in REAL value terms forcing DEFLATION upon the country. The gold standard was abandoned (defaults) in 1931 and that was the key. This is a battle between the investment bankers and the people. The debts have to be devalued or we will be looking a massive civil unrest by 2016. It is time to...

About the only commodity markets that were lower today were the feeder cattle and natural gas markets. Corn is back at levels last seen in August 2008. Soybeans are working at reaching the $13 level while wheat is above $7 once again. Cotton is once again limit up as it continues to trounce one record after another and is now well above levels last seen when Rhett Butler was running Yankee blockages during the era portrayed by “Gone with the Wind”. (We are organizing a raid on neighborhood clothes lines where a rich stash of cotton underwear and T shirts...

Financial Markets Warning!, Exit Strategy Profitable for Limited Time Only!? Stock-Markets / Financial Crash Feb 19, 2010 - 02:37 PM By: DeepCaster LLC CONUNDRUM: As The ___?___ Economy goes so goes the International Economy (Fill in the blank) Markets Warning! The Musical Chairs Party Game is nearly over for key Bullish Markets. Many players will be left without a Chair to face the Bears. Indeed, one of the savvyist Big Players is already half-way out the door! Last week we noted that China ordered its currency reserve Manager to exit from risky U.S. dollar assets, and retain only debt guaranteed...

Capitalism Reigns, Stocks Bull Market In Self-Delusion Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market Feb 07, 2010 - 06:48 PM By: Charlie Tarango The Obvious Jesse Livermore is one of the Greatest Legends on Wall Street. Rightfully so. From him and from experience I am have learned one of the most important things a Participant can ever learn in Markets: The Big Money is never made and kept on the “Obvious”. David Copperfield If you’ve ever seen David Copperfield or any other Talent in his League, ask yourself what is critical to “The Performance” ? Your Perception. This Ambit of Perception and...

Doug Casey Says Bet Against Wall Street, Bonds, And After A Few Months The U.S. Dollar Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010 Jan 22, 2010 - 05:45 AM By: Casey Research L: Doug, I saw a Wall Street Journal headline a few days ago that boldly proclaimed, "Car Makers May Hire Soon." Be still, my trembling heart! It’s hard to believe the WSJ would stoop to such a meaningless headline, but I guess they are just trying to give their desperate customers what they want: some hope, whether valid or not. What do you make of the unemployment situation? Doug: Well,...

Stock Market Set to Crash Stock-Markets / Financial Crash Jan 21, 2010 - 02:24 PM By: Casey Research Doug Casey: "Stock Market Set to Crash" (Interviewed by Louis James, Editor, International Speculator) L: So, what's on your mind this week, Doug? I understand you've had a "guru moment"… Doug: Well, it's nothing but a gut feeling, but I think the stock market is riding for a big fall this year. Everyone was afraid the world was going to come to an end a year ago, and it almost did. But governments all around the world stepped in and printed up...

2010 Gathering Giant Economic and Financial Storm Clouds Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010 Jan 07, 2010 - 12:17 AM By: Jim Willie CB The year 2008 bore my mark as the year the system broke. A public article addressed the issues, laid out before the breakdown occurred in September of that year. The consequences for the many failures, the desperate nationalizations, the hasty scrambles to put financial sewage under USGovt ownership, the realization of TARP as a vast slush fund for illegitimate bank rescues, the official monetization plans put forth to prevent bond implosions, and much more occurred in the...

2010 Perils And Potential Profits As Hyperinflation Nears Stock-Markets / HyperInflation Dec 30, 2009 - 07:10 PM By: DeepCaster LLC To see 2010’s Potential we must first consider the Main Perils. “Hyperinflation Nears…"The intensifying economic and solvency crises, and the responses to both by the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve in the last two years, have exacerbated the government’s solvency issues and moved forward my timing estimation for the hyperinflation to the next five years, from the 2010 to 2018 timing range estimated in the prior report. The U.S. government and Federal Reserve already have committed the system to...

Marc Faber On Economic Armageddon And The Collapse Of Capitalism Stock-Markets / Financial Crash Dec 21, 2009 - 02:02 PM By: Submissions Marc Faber Says Run for Your Lives! "The Future will be a total disaster with a collapse of our capitalistic system as we know it today, wars, massive government debt defaults and the impoverishment of large segments of Western society."[snip]click on the site to view the video.