By Nico Isaac
10/21/2011 2:45:00 PM
Few mainstream commentators anticipated Goldman Sachs' recent decline. Yet it's hard to blame them, because they simply aren't equipped to anticipate trend changes. Most of the time they simply extrapolate the previous trend into the future. Goldman has been a Wall Street powerhouse for decades -- so why would that ever change?
Filed Under: bailouts, banks, Bear Stearns, credit crisis, Elliott wave, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers
Category: U.S. Economy
By Editorial Staff
4/20/2010 12:15:00 PM
In the November 2009 issue of Elliott Wave International's monthly Elliott Wave Financial Forecast, co-editors Steven Hochberg and Peter Kendall published a careful study of Goldman Sachs company history -- and made a sobering forecast for its future. In this special three-part series, we are releasing the entire Special Report to you. Here is Part II; please come back later this week for Part III.
Filed Under: Goldman Sachs, Robert Prechter, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, AIG
Category: Stocks
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
4/16/2010 3:00:00 PM
In November 2009, Elliott Wave International's monthly Elliott Wave Financial Forecast published a careful study of Goldman Sachs' history -- and made a grim forecast for the firm's future. In this special three-part series, we will release the entire Special Report to you. Here is Part I; come back next week for Parts II and III.
Filed Under: Goldman Sachs, Warren Buffett, U.S. Treasuries, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Wall Street
Category: Stocks
The Weakest Link
Let’s address a key point that most mainstream analysts seem to have missed.
By Jason Farkas
12/1/2009 2:30:00 PM
With all the talk about the end of the Great Recession, I continually ask myself the following questions: Am I just being a pessimist for believing in a deflationary depression? Am I a fool to fight those who make the rules: Congress, the Fed and the Treasury? So, let’s address a key point that most mainstream analysts seem to have missed...
Filed Under: Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed)
Category: U.S. Economy
By Nico Isaac
9/23/2008 5:00:00 PM
As the stock market continues its violent 400-point swings back and forth, one question floods the minds of investors across the country: Where is a secure place to park my money, besides the floor boards? And, like a broken record, the conventional wisdom repeats, “Gold, gold, gold…” Are they right?
Filed Under: gold futures, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, AIG, safe haven
Category: Gold and Silver
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
8/1/2008 3:00:00 PM
Many adopt the view that "the world catches a cold when America sneezes." We could, however, argue that the turbulence started in the UK and spread to the U.S.! See this chart for details.
Filed Under: Bear Stearns, DAX
Category: European Markets
By Bill Fox, Senior Bonds Analyst
7/30/2008 1:15:00 PM
I have spoken in this column before that it is the insidious nature of deflation to undermine all asset classes and erode the capital base of an economy. As we unwind this credit cycle, cash is king, and commercial and investment banks are scrambling for capital – capital that has not been forthcoming while writedowns continue into Q4...
Filed Under: Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch
Category: Interest Rates
By Nico Isaac
5/30/2008 3:45:00 PM
The bleak, nail-biting drama known as “The Tempest… In the U.S. Credit Market” has played out as one terrible scene after another: The once formidable Titans of Finance fell from an over-leveraged grace, triggering $300 billion in write downs, massive layoffs, losses, government bailouts, record-high foreclosures, and pretty much every economic setback around.
Filed Under: credit crisis, Citigroup, Bear Stearns
Category: U.S. Economy
By Susan C. Walker
5/21/2008 11:00:00 AM
While a failure in the swaps market could crush many hedge funds that deal in them, Elliott Wave International's Bob Prechter sees an even more basic reason why they will ultimately come to a bad end – that's because they're not really hedgers, they are merely buyers
Filed Under: hedge funds, credit crisis, credit default swaps, Bear Stearns
Category: Classic Prechter
By Nico Isaac
5/19/2008 5:45:00 PM
The bleak, nail-biting drama known as “The Tempest… In the U.S. Credit Market” has played out as one terrible scene after another: The once formidable Titans of Finance fell from an over-leveraged grace, triggering $300 billion in write downs, massive layoffs, losses, government bailouts, record-high foreclosures, and pretty much every variety of economic setback...
Filed Under: foreclosures, bailouts, Bear Stearns, Citigroup
Category: U.S. Economy
By Editorial Staff
5/2/2008 4:15:00 PM
The big question that still remains about the demise of Bear Stearns is, how did its mortgage-backed securities lose their value so quickly? It's a question that Bob Prechter has pondered in a more general way for his best-selling business book, Conquer the Crash. In this excerpt, Bob carefully explains exactly how financial values can disappear.
Filed Under: Bear Stearns, subprime lending, Bear market, conquer the crash
Category: Classic Prechter