China Shuts Down Stock Exchanges as Shares Plummet

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Chinese authorities shut down trading at stock exchanges on Monday after shares plummeted.
China halted trading at its Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets after shares listed on the Shanghai exchange plummeted nearly 7 percent on Monday.
The decline also led European markets to decline over two percent. The collapse could be linked a rise in oil prices that has resulted from a diplomatic confrontation between Iran and Saudi Arabia. China is highly dependent on imported oil.
China initially halted trading for 15 minutes, as part of a new "circuit breaker" system, which debuted on Monday, and shut down the market permanently after the pause failed to stop the trading collapse.
"The mechanism is merely a tool and it won't help the market find its true value. With or without the system, the market will continue to drop further if selling pressures piles up," Shen Zhengyang, an analyst at Northeast Securities, told AFP.

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"Circuit-breaker" systems, which halt overly volatile trading, have previously been implemented at exchanges in many countries, including the US and Russia.The collapse could have little impact on China's economy, in which officials do not consider economic statistics such as gross domestic product and company valuations to be linked to economic growth.
Large-scale speculation on Chinese markets was blamed for the August 2015 stock market collapse, in which shares fell by nearly a third over the course of a month.
Brent crude oil rose by over two dollars since tensions began between Saudi Arabia and Iran, although they have receded since then.





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Because oil prices could be going up?.......hummmmmmmmm..........I TOLD YOU........the power to be need the increase on prices in order to live above the little people.

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U.S. StocksData as of 9:32:17am ET
Monday’s Trading:


Dow (http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/dow) -178.84

17,425.03
-1.02%
Nasdaq (http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/nasdaq) -112.16

4,895.25
-2.24%
S&P (http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/sandp) -32.05

2,011.89

[mick silver]

US stocks set for big hit after global selloff by Ivana Kottasova @ivanakottasova (https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=ivanakottasova) January 4, 2016: 7:33 AM ET






CNNMoney's 2016 Playbook: Stocks







The holidays are definitely over. Expect a rough start to the new year. Global stocks are sliding fast on the first trading day of 2016 after China suspended its markets early due to heavy losses.





Here are the six things you need to know before the opening bell rings in New York:
1. China halts trading: China halted stock trading (http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/04/investing/china-stocks-pmi-factory-halted/index.html?iid=hp-toplead-dom) on Monday after weak manufacturing data spooked investors and sent shares plummeting. The benchmark Shanghai Composite shed 6.9%, while the Shenzhen Composite lost more than 8%.
The trading halt was China's first-ever use of circuit breakers -- a kind of emergency brake -- on its main exchanges.
Read more: Chinese stocks plunge (http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/04/investing/china-stocks-pmi-factory-halted/index.html?iid=EL)
2. Futures dropping: U.S. stocks are set to drop after the first opening bell of the year.Stock futures (http://money.cnn.com/data/premarket/?iid=EL) are falling fast: Dow Jones (http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/dow/?iid=EL) futures are down 1.8%, while the S&P 500 index (http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/sandp/?iid=EL) is 1.9% lower, and the Nasdaq is down 2%.
Related: Fear & Greed Index (http://money.cnn.com/data/fear-and-greed/?iid=EL)
3. Stock market movers -- Baxalta, Alcoa, Netflix: Shares in Illinois-based drugmaker Baxalta (BXLT (http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=BXLT&source=story_quote_link)) were up as much as 15% on reports it is set to announce a takeover by London-listed competitor Shire (SHPGF (http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=SHPGF&source=story_quote_link)).
Netflix (NFLX (http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=NFLX&source=story_quote_link), Tech30 (http://money.cnn.com/technology/tech30/index.html?iid=EL)) is dropping 5.4% in premarket trading. Despite slowing U.S. subscriber growth, Netflix was one of the best performing stocks in (http://money.cnn.com/gallery/investing/2015/12/23/best-stocks-of-2015/?iid=EL)the S&P 500 in 2015.
Other companies suffering premarket include Alcoa (AA (http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=AA&source=story_quote_link)), Facebook (FB (http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=FB&source=story_quote_link), Tech30 (http://money.cnn.com/technology/tech30/index.html?iid=EL)), Apple (AAPL (http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=AAPL&source=story_quote_link), Tech30 (http://money.cnn.com/technology/tech30/index.html?iid=EL)) and Cisco (CSCO (http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=CSCO&source=story_quote_link), Tech30 (http://money.cnn.com/technology/tech30/index.html?iid=EL)).
Related: CNNMoney's Tech30 (http://money.cnn.com/technology/tech30/?iid=EL)
4. Volatile oil: Oil futures are jumping (http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/04/investing/oil-hike-saudi-arabia-iran/index.html?iid=hp-stack-dom) up and down on Monday, after Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic ties with Iran. After spiking by nearly 3% in early trading, crude prices trimmed those gains to trade around $37.
Saudi Arabia kicked out Iran's diplomats on Sunday, saying an attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran by Iranian protesters was the last straw. Those protests were triggered by Saudi Arabia's execution of Shiite dissident cleric Nimr al-Nimr, a move condemned by Iran as a violation of "human rights and Islamic values."
Saudi Arabia and Iran are major oil producers. Iran is eager to ramp up its oil output in 2016, as soon as economic sanctions are lifted.
5. U.S. economy: The U.S. ISM Manufacturing Index data for December is expected at 10a.m. ET. The index has been declining for five months and slipped below the neutral level of 50 in November, signaling a contraction in manufacturing.
Germany will publish its December inflation data at 8a.m. ET.
6. International markets overview: Asian markets (http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/asia/?iid=EL) ended the first session of the year sharply lower. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 slid 3%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng was down 2.7%, and Seoul's Kospi Composite shed 2.2%
European markets (http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/europe/?iid=EL) all fell in early trading. The FTSE 100 is down almost 2.6%. German Dax is down 4.3% and France's CAC 40 down 2.7%,
Related: Dow closes worst year since 2008 (http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/31/investing/stocks-market-end-of-2015/index.html?iid=hp-stack-intl)

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there a hell of a sale off going on right now in the USA U.S. StocksData as of 9:45:44am ET
Monday’s Trading:


Dow (http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/dow) -386.93

17,038.10
-2.22%
Nasdaq (http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/nasdaq) -124.83

4,882.58
-2.49%
S&P (http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/sandp) -43.87

2,000.07

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386. dam gold up 23 paper bucks

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dow -406.00

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Oil prices volatile after Saudi Arabia cuts ties with Iran by Robert Mclean @robertmclean (https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=robertmclean) January 4, 2016: 8:05 AM ET









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Oil prices were volatile Monday after Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic ties with Iran. After spiking by nearly 3% in early trading, crude prices retreated to $37 before rebounding yet again.





The two countries have long been at odds, but Saudi Arabia's execution of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr on Saturday kicked off a new round of sparring between them that marks a dangerous shift in an already volatile region.
Al-Nimr was a fervent dissident against the Sunni Muslim Saudi royal family and called for their deposal during the Arab spring uprisings in 2011. After his execution, the Saudi embassy in predominantly Shia Tehran came under attack.
Both Iran and Saudi Arabia are major oil-producing countries, and founding members of OPEC.
Geopolitical tensions in the Middle East typically cause prices to spike as traders worry about supply disruptions. But in this case, both Iran and Saudi Arabia are likely to keep pumping oil at a breakneck pace, contributing to the global supply glut that has kept prices at very low levels in recent months.
In 2015, oil prices dropped 35% to levels not seen since the global financial crisis.
OPEC, the biggest player in the oil market, is charging ahead, refusing to cut production to lift the prices. The Saudi-led cartel is trying to squeeze out higher-cost producers in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Iran's oil production has long been reined in by sanctions, but the country is eager to ramp up its output. It is planning to increase production by as much as 1.5 million barrels a day in 2016.
-- Ivana Kottasova contributed to this report.
Related: Oil prices fell 35%. What now? (http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/01/investing/oil-prices-2016/index.html?iid=EL)
Related: 5 countries crushed by oil price collapse (http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/30/investing/oil-prices-countries-suffering/index.html?iid=EL)
Related: Saudi Arabia crushed by cheap oil - and the cuts are coming (http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/28/investing/saudi-arabia-budget-oil-opec/index.html?iid=EL)


CNNMoney (New York) First published January 4, 2016: 2:33 AM ET

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386. dam gold up 23 paper bucks


This wasnt a Black Swan but a dirty brown pigeon...unexpected but controlable.

Expect that price to be capped quickly before the end of the week

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This wasnt a Black Swan but a dirty brown pigeon...unexpected but controlable.

Expect that price to be capped quickly before the end of the week

The gains are already sliding back down. Might be capped before the end of the day!

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Brent crude oil rose by over two dollars since tensions began between Saudi Arabia and Iran, although they have receded since then.

Maybe why China threw the circuit breaker, nobody wants to pay more for oil or gold.

[mick silver]

Preparing for the Great Unwind
By Daily Bell Staff - January 04, 2016



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The Most Important Person in 2016 ... Forget the presidential candidates – Fed Chair Janet Yellen is who you need to watch ... – US News (http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/pat-garofalo/articles/2015-12-31/janet-yellen-will-be-the-most-important-person-in-2016)
Dominant Social Theme: The most important person in the world ...
Free-Market Analysis: The great debate has started and will continue to keep us focused on the Fed (http://www.thedailybell.com/definitions/params/id/1855/) until the next move. We will be reminded over and over again of the phony importance of one or two "power players" in determining the fate of the largest economy in the world.
The potential outcomes for the US economy in 2015 were endlessly debated but now that the Fed has actually hiked rates, the debate has taken on yet more significance.
Even though the outcomes are simple enough, the results along with what's coming next will be endlessly debated. US News is giving us a sample of that in this article.
More:
But for all the hoopla and breathless coverage that's sure to come, 2016's most important political player won't be on the campaign trail. She'll be heading up America's central bank (http://www.thedailybell.com/definitions/params/id/2958/).
When the Federal Reserve, led by Chair Janet Yellen, raised interest rates recently for the first time in nearly a decade – ending seven years of rates essentially sitting at zero – economy-watchers divided into two camps ...
The dispute boils down to which should be of greater concern: the specter of easy money sparking inflation as the economy recovers or the threat of rate hikes choking growth.
Through its manipulation of the federal funds rate (which is the rate at which banks lend to each other) and its other tools, the Fed expands or contracts the money supply in an effort to achieve its so-called "dual mandate" of full employment and low inflation.
The article drones on like this, foretelling what is to come: Endless articles in 2016 focused on the sterile interest rate debate. The larger issue, of course, is whether or not the economy is doing "well."
If the perception is that the Great Recession is vanquished, then the political debate may favor the Democrats in upcoming elections. If not, it may favor Republicans. And that, too, will be an endless, droning debate, replete with phony statistics and deeply questionable conclusions.
David Stockman has no difficulty taking a position on the next leg of the business cycle (http://www.thedailybell.com/definitions/params/id/634/). In his recent article (http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/now-comes-the-great-unwind-how-evaporating-commodity-wealth-will-slam-the-casino/), "Now Comes The Great Unwind—How Evaporating Commodity Wealth Will Slam The Casino," he predicts that predictions of an economic recovery are greatly overblown.
Presciently, he focuses the article, to begin with, on the Chinese economy. Today, as of this writing, Chinese stocks have just dropped some seven percent, causing a shutdown of trading and a knock-off effect in Europe.
He writes:
The giant credit fueled boom of the last 20 years has deformed the global economy in ways that are both visible and less visible. As to the former, it only needs be pointed out that an economy based on actual savings from real production and income and a modicum of financial market discipline would not build 65 million empty apartment units based on the theory that their price will rise forever as long as they remain unoccupied!
That's the Red Ponzi at work in China and its replicated all across the land in similar wasteful investments in unused or under-used shopping malls, factories, coal mines, airports, highways, bridges and much, much more.
We've been very clear about this for perhaps a half-decade or so: The great Chinese boom was built on tremendous surges of easy credit, and that situation continues today. The only difference is that the stimulus doesn't work so well anymore.
Stockman does us the favor of pointing out that the Chinese situation is replicated around the world. This has been an easy-money decade that still persists in both Europe and Asia.
But the point here is that China is not some kind of one-off aberration. In fact, the less visible aspects of the credit ponzi exist throughout the global economy ...
Stockman even puts a number on the money printing, stating that it is something like $185 trillion of worldwide credit expansion. This is a shocking number and nearly doubles the US$100 trillion that we estimated central banks would print to liquidate the Great Recession.
He also explains this incredible credit expansion "led to booming demand for commodities," and this demand in turn created layer upon layer of distortion as it rippled through the economy. "In the case of upstream oil and gas, for example, worldwide investment grew from $250 billion to $700 billion in less than a decade."
Now he foresees demand collapsing, based on an overabundant supply. "Already, investment is estimated to have dropped by 20% in 2015, and that is just the beginning."
This unfolding collapse of oil and gas investments, of course, will ricochet through the capital goods and heavy construction sectors with gale force. Eventually, annual investment may decline by $250 to $400 billion before balance is restored, meaning that what were windfall profits and surging wages and bonuses in these sectors just a year or two back will evaporate in the years ahead.
What Stockman is predicting here is significant industrial deflation. As the credit bubble collapses, "profits, incomes, balance sheets and credit-worthiness are all shrinking, too." It will have a knock-off effect on GDP.
It is not just in the mining sector. He provides us with an analysis of the rubber industry as well, showing how easy money created excess supplies that may keep prices in lower ranges for a decade. His perspective is that this over-production precludes a soft landing – what he calls a "smooth rotation" into services and consumption. This is complicated by the falloff in state revenues around the world.
Indeed, the data for Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is stunning. During the global credit boom they amassed sovereign wealth funds totaling $2.3 trillion. But with deficits now estimated at 13% of GDP and rising, the level of asset liquidation is soaring.
This is very obviously another deflationary pressure, what Stockman calls the Great Unwind, "which will not stay contained in the energy and metals markets."
Lessons learned? Well ... what we certainly learn here is that Janet Yellen is not nearly so important as US News is trying to tell us. The world's larger economy is feeling the effects of a half-decade of reckless money printing. The hangover will be historic and the idea that the world is entering into a "recovery" is a chimera.
Inevitably, the Keynesian (http://www.thedailybell.com/definitions/params/id/831/) solution is to print yet more money by keeping rates artificially low, which is what's going on in the European Union. But the results are predictable, as the correction is implacable. "Overinvestment and malinvestment are inevitable destroyers of incomes and profit," Stockman writes, and thus, the world's economic bubble is destined to subside.
Seen from this perspective, US rate hikes only aggravate the current global collapse. And coupled with sovereign wealth liquidations, demand may fall further.
In this article, Stockman makes no allowances for the additional money printing that most of the world is embarked upon. He also doesn't follow through on what seems to us to be a logical conclusion: that Ms. Yellen and company will have a hard time continuing to hike interest rates.
Combine money printing with the Great Unwind and you end up with the possibility of a Great Stagflation. Further surges of easy money do little to stimulate global demand.
Conclusion: No matter what the future holds, Yellen is not in control of it. The world's economy is a great deal larger and more powerful than the tools she can bring to bear. Having contributed to what's taking place today, she is powerless to stop it. Those who understand these larger forces at work are no doubt preparing accordingly. So should you.

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U.S. StocksSee After-Hours Trading (http://money.cnn.com/data/afterhours) Data as of 5:16pm ET
Monday’s Close:


Dow (http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/dow) -276.09

17,148.94
-1.58%
Nasdaq (http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/nasdaq) -104.32

4,903.09
-2.08%
S&P (http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/sandp) -31.28

2,012.66
-1.53%