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Traders are predicting chaos on the world's second-largest government bond market after the German authorities on Tuesday announced a ban on all naked short-selling in European public debt, as well as shares in the country's 10 largest financial institutions.
Market chaos warning after German ban on shorting
American politicians have fired a shot across the bows of the International Monetary Fund, warning it to tread carefully in offering bailout loans to eurozone members and other indebted countries.
US senators seek veto on IMF loans to eurozone
Barrons on Tuesday called it the crash you didnt hear. They were referring to the sell-off in the Thomson Reuters/Jefferies CRB index, which dropped 2 per cent and hit a seven-month low on Monday, after falling some 10 per cent in the past month.
Is it really a commodity crash?
The world's fund managers have seen the sharpest drop in risk appetite since the dotcom recession, losing faith in the "Goldilocks" recovery as China chokes off credit and the fuse blows on sovereign debt.
Funds embrace America in flight from risk
The New York University professor, Nassim Taleb, who made his name predicting the credit crunch, has told investors to dump equities and government bonds and buy 'hard assets'.
Professor tells investors to sell shares and bonds
Inflation keeps on rising. Mervyn King keeps on saying its a blip. And the markets keep on believing him. Just. The jump in inflation to 3.7 per cent in April would have been more shocking if we werent getting used to these shocks. Inflation has persistenly outstripped the expectations of City economists and of the Bank of England.
The elephant in the room just got bigger
US stock exchanges are to impose market-wide "circuit breakers" on major companies' shares in a bid to prevent a repeat of the near-1,000 point fall on the Dow Jones Industrial Average two weeks ago.
Trading curbs to be imposed on US shares after 'flash crash'