The Nikkei plunged a whopping 1,143 points as the following chart shows. Global Equities HammeredIt's not just the Nikkei that's being hammered. Asia-Pacific is in a rout as well. click on chart for sharper imageStart of Reflation Bubble Bust?Is this

As the world of equity asset-gatherers is desparate to point out the 'bubble' talk must mean bonds, we offer a few charts as a gentle reminder of reality... And as Doug Kass noted the last two times the S&P 500 hit all-time high and closed down m

It appears (as we noted here) that the size of the balance sheet, difficulty of the exit, frothiness of markets, and not-totally-dismal labor headlines have even the doves a little more hawkish about the possibility of an exit at some point - though

Southeast Asia’s booming bond market has sparked fears of a bubble but the region is in more robust shape to withstand shocks than in the late 1990s

This is a pretty good list from UBS on where the bubbles might be.  I take issue with the first one, however as I definitely don’t think there’s a bubble in government bonds.  Maybe Jeff Gundlach was right when he said there&rsq

Alan Greenspan once said you only recognize bubbles after the fact.  This is another way of saying nobody ever pinpoints when the music is about to stop.  I?m bullish on stocks and contemporary art.  My assets nearly evenly spread betw

The market is on a tear, up 17% so far this year for the S&P 500 Index and the SPY that tracks it. Such strong short-term performance is reason for caution in the short-term ? And we may be in for some pullbacks in the market in the near future.

Update: Bubble Bernanke slams any hopes for Tapering goodbye, as long predicted: PREMATURE TIGHTENING RISKS SLOWING OR ENDING RECOVERY Bernanke's quarterly hearing with the Joint Economic Committee this morning will be today's must-see event (with FO

Or maybe this is a trick question, and the answer for the "New Normal", when all central banks are coordinating on reflating the biggest asset bubble of all time, is "all of them"... And some thoughts on the chart above from Obermeyer Asset Manageme

NEW YORK (TheStreet) --Major U.S. stock indexes continue climbing further into bubble territory as investors ignore weak economic news and count on the Federal Reserve to keep the money spigots open.All major indexes remain overbought and in record t

Prices have doubled as the Fed has held interest rates at lows and amid strong demand. What will happen when monetary policy tightens and grain supply grows

At a time when college costs more than ever and we're facing a $1 trillion student debt bubble, it's no surprise the whole "Is College Even Worth It?" debate is still going strong.  Take it from us –– you won't get far without a coll

Submitted by Mark j. Grant, author of Out of the Box, The 100% Prediction of a Reversal A reversal will come. The odds on this are 100%. You cannot have every asset class on the planet in a bubble forever. The world does not operate this way. Th

By Eric Parnell:"Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful"--Warren BuffettA major bubble is currently inflating in investment markets. Yet nobody is talking about it. It's not that the category in question isn't getting an

It may be time to start worrying about a tech bubble again. OK, not really "worrying" so much. But the news that Yahoo has...

The last few years have been dominated by one theme and every trade has been a derivative bet on that theme. The idea that by inflating another asset bubble, a wealth effect will ripple through the market to the real economy, encourage animal spirits

Just over a month ago I mentioned that lumber prices were nearing the housing bubble highs.Since then prices have declined sharply, with prices off about 20% from the recent highs.Some of the decline could be related to additional supply coming on th

This ominous-sounding technical signal points to another move down in bond yields. So much for the Treasury bubble bursting?

With markets hitting new highs, the "b-word" has been getting tossed around a lot more. It's being applied to both stocks and bonds equally. And there's a large contingent of people hate bonds, and think the bond market is a bubble being engineered b

To those who have already submitted their applications to launder their cash buy an apartment or better yet, have already wired the money to purchase any of the still to be built residences at 432 Park, the 84-story giant that is set to become the ta

Calls for Apple to endure a lost decade, as Microsoft did after the bursting of the Tech Bubble, are ridiculous.Here's why.

Shares of Tesla have been red hot this year. Although some worry about the valuation and earnings quality, they are in the minority.

If there is one market that represents the sheer unbridled lack of respect for risk it is the Greek Government bond market. In the last year, GGB prices have surged 380% from under EUR 14 to almost EUR 67% of par today! That is a plunge in yields fro

Cities in California and Texas are already seeing the early signs of a housing bubble.

Are we moving from the bust to the bubble -- and missing the recovery for average people?

In the prior essay in this series, I demonstrated that US systemic liquidity is at frighteningly high levels and that this could become a key factor that enables the formation of a stock market bubble, as risk aversion and liquidity preference declin

In the prior essay in this series, I demonstrated that US systemic liquidity is at frighteningly high levels and that this could become a key factor that enables the formation of a stock market bubble, as risk aversion and liquidity preference declin

As Google shares zip past $900, the question is, have they become too pricey? Click to view a price quote on GOOG. Click to research the Internet industry.    

The market is seemingly in can't-lose mode. When there's good news, stocks spike. When there's bad news, stocks go nowhere. Lots of people say this is all the doing of the Fed, and that it's a bubble that will end in tears. In a great, thorough post,

Are the easy-money policies of theworld’s central banks setting financial markets up for a crash?We would have a much better idea if we measured how much of thebuying is being done with borrowed money.

At the NVCA’s VentureScape conference this week, venture and corporate investors met with executives leading top startup accelerators to ask them about measures of accelerator success, and whether we're in an "accelerator bubble."

Is the U.S. housing market entering the early stages of a possible bubble? Or is this stagnant industry finally growing? Kathleen M. Howley of Bloomberg published an article earlier Thursday pertaining to these implications in the housing market.

Whether the rise in prices is overheating the market has become a feverishly discussed question among land shoppers from farmers to pension funds

Wolf Richter   www.testosteronepit.com   www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter At first blush, the German economy appears to be ailing – at first blush because the stock market, in its omniscient manner, is predicting wondrous d

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Forget all the talk of a housing bubble. The recovery has plenty of momentum behind it, according to CoreLogic.Home prices rose 7.3% in 2012, the most in seven years, according to the CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index. P

David Bell, a senior advisor to AOL, believes the adtech bubble is about to burst, taking a lot of small, unsustainable companies with it. It's a counterintuitive position given that the ad business is in the middle of a massive, secular movement of

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- As the S&P 500 carves out a firm foothold for the first time above the 1600 level, we will likely hear arguments that stocks are forming a bubble and are ready for a major downside correction. But price levels viewed in isolat

Michael Novogratz, the head of Fortress Investment Group, appeared on CNBC yesterday. Among other things, he talked about what he considered to be an ongoing bubble in art. "Art is 100 percent a bubble—I mean it has all the markings for a bubbl

Economists have been talking about if and when the Canadian housing bubble will burst. At the same time, we now appear to be well beyond the bottom of the U.S. housing recovery. In a new report, British Columbia-based Pacifica Partners Capital Manage

Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker warned of the risks of an asset bubble forming given the incredible amount of liquidity the Bernanke Fed has injected into the market, even though he said banks are substantially stronger than before the crisis on Wed

Recovery or bubble?  Stock and housing prices are rising, but the real economy refuses to play along.  The Fed?s history-making liquidity gambit may have induced a impressive revival ? or a false spring that merely delays the true reckoning

Take a good look at the chart of the Nikkei below: Supposedly this is the same chart that the new BOJ head, Haruhiko Kuroda, was looking at when he was responding to Japanese lawmakers during a session of the upper-house budget committee, where he f

The Bank of Japan's governor played down worries of a stock-market bubble and cost-push inflation, signaling his resolve to press ahead with the bold monetary easing.

The relentless focus on profits at America's biggest law firms is taking a huge toll on young lawyers, Steven Harper argues in his new book "The Lawyer Bubble." Harper points to a 2007 American Bar Association study finding lawyers at firms with

Curious how the student loan bubble, just shy of $1 trillion, and now the largest debt portion of the US household non-mortgage wallet,  bigger than credit card and auto loan debt - affects your state? Then the following three charts just out fr

  The markets are rallying because today is Tuesday. Stocks have rallied every Tuesday for the last 17 weeks and traders are now conditioned to play for this move. It’s also a POMO day (meaning the Fed is pumping the markets), which adds f

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Ciscowill report its fiscal third-quarter earnings on Wednesday. Even though it's no longer the days of the tech bubble, you couldn't tell by the company's recent performances. After overcoming some missteps in execution, the

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- National home prices are still undervalued relative to their fundamental value, Trulia economist Jed Kolko noted in a blog post Tuesday, soothing concerns the market is heading into bubble territory.While price gains in some m

This Tuesday morning First Read brings you an update on Janus Capital's three departing portfolio managers; PE being edged out of consumer deals and bitcoin still buzzing after the bubble.The post peHUB First Read appeared first on peHUB.