09-17-2015, 10:07 PM
“Creating an advantage to an institutional user or a particular type of trader that disadvantages the retail investor is bad for the country, bad for the markets, and bad for your business.” Grasso said that market changes should be designed with “little old grandma in tennis shoes” in mind, according to the report. Grasso added that if “you’ve taken care of her, you’ve taken care of everyone else.”
Ex-NYSE chief Dick Grasso says stock market is unfair - Business Insider
As he's been predicting for quite a while, Gundlach believes the Fed is more inclined to hike later than sooner. During a webcast on Tuesday, Gundlach shared a slew of market and economic stats and trends that would argue against a rate hike in September or any time this year.
Jeff Gundlach Sept.8 Webcast - Business Insider
So, 0.25% one way or the other is not going to make or break the markets. China might break the markets, Japan might break the markets, Brazil might break the markets - 11 other emerging markets (the GS M-11 Fund) that have dropped 20%, into bear market territory, might break the markets - but not the Fed hike.
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Debt ratios have reached extreme levels across all major regions of the global economy, leaving the financial system acutely vulnerable to monetary tightening by the US Federal Reserve, the world's top financial watchdog has warned.
BIS fears emerging market maelstrom as Fed tightens - Telegraph
Dollar loans to emerging markets (EM) have doubled since the Lehman crisis to $3 trillion, and much of it has been borrowed at abnormally low real interest rates of 1pc. Roughly 80pc of the dollar debt in China is on short-term maturities.
BIS fears emerging market maelstrom as Fed tightens - Telegraph