On the Transpicuous News Report, Sunday August 30th, we primarily focused on the Financial Insanity of this past week or so (Archive Video below)

.. and Then Monday Arrived, the markets opened and did some more very interesting gyrations.

Further to the report, several interesting article have come out that highlight some very interesting information. And it's not just the alternative media- Sputnik just published an article quoting Gerald Celente's doom predictions, which is an interesting twist in the propaganda machine of Russia.

Below are a few of the interesting articles that have come out lately, and a few of the screen shots from TN on Sunday.

US is Gearing Up for Onrushing Economic Apocalypse

America is hurling all of its effort into preparing for a September “apocalypse,” as economic forecasts are becoming more and more intimidating, RT columnist Robert Bridge wrote.
US Economic Confidence Index rating, confidence in the US economy among Americans dropped to its lowest level in July. Nothing to be surprised about, considering that each and every economy analyst deems it duty to share predictions on the country's nearest future in a campfire scary story manner...
It does seem like professional economists are competing in a think-of-the-most-dreadful-metaphor contest when describing what awaits global economy.
The founder of Trends Research, who predicted the "panic of 2008," believes that soon we will witness the crash of a global stock market and predicts
"the economic earthquake [that] will send reverberations around the world".
"There's going to be panic on the streets from Wall Street to Shanghai, to the UK down to Brazil." Celente told King World News. "You're going to see one market after another begin to collapse."
Analyst Larry Edelson took the fear to the next level as he even predicted the exact day the catastrophe begins, or, as he called it, a "rollercoaster ride through hell."
"On October 7, 2015, the first economic super cycle since 1929 will trigger a global financial crisis of epic proportions." He said.
"It will bring Europe, Japan and the United States to their knees, sending nearly one billion human beings on a roller-coaster ride through hell for the next five years. A ride like no generation has ever seen."

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/business/20150817/1025818543.html#ixzz3kRDRZ1EV

“Something” Just Happened!

The leverage in all markets suggests a “holiday” will occur because the unwinding cannot be orderly

by Bill Holter, SGT Report:

“Something” happened three weeks ago. While we cannot be sure “what” exactly happened, we can speculate. We have many dots and lots of data points to help us but first it needs to be pointed out, even if wrong in conclusion …just the knowledge alone that “something changed” is enough. If you know something has changed, you can take clues and look at various markets for inflection points. Currently, most markets are stretched to various limits. Whether it be zero bound credit markets, equities, real estate, commodities or gold and silver, all values had reached extreme highs or lows.

Something changed three weeks ago and a series of events began. It all started with China announcing 600 additional tons of gold. This was followed by the IMF rebuff of China, the three yuan devaluations and three “coincidental” explosions. Then equity markets around the world (which were already weak) began to violently unravel and finally spilled over to the U.S.. This tested the PPT’s limits (which were apparently $23 billion last week).....

There were several more major anomalies in gold. As of Friday, there were 63 August contracts still open …even though the contract went off the board. This has NEVER happened in 40 years! How is this possible?...

Over in silver, did you know they had confirmed volume on Thursday of 122,482 contracts traded? Did you know this represents 612 MILLION ounces of silver …or over 87% of annual global silver production ex China and Russia? How in the world does 87% of a full year’s production trade in just several hours? Doesn’t this go against commodity laws? AND, silver was pummeled on Thursday so it was supposed to represent PANIC SELLING. Who was panicking and needed to sell all that silver so fast? ....

Before telling you what I think has changed, we need to look at what China has just done. China has sold $100 billion worth of Treasury bonds over the last two weeks....the Federal Reserve had to buy the $100 billion worth of bonds. This is “reverse” QE or as they now say “QT” (quantitative tightening).

....The important thing is you understand “something” very big has happened and trends are changing in many markets. The leverage in all markets suggests a “holiday” will occur because the unwinding cannot be orderly. The “unwinding” by the way will need to undue the credit built upon credit going all the way back to Aug. 15, 1971!

http://sgtreport.com/2015/08/something-just-happened/

( http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/stock-up-on-canned-food-for-stock-market-crash-warns-former-gordon-brown-advisor-10469509.html )

BNY Scrambles To Fix Unresolved ETF "Glitch" By Monday Market Open

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/31/2015 08:55 -0400

Last weekend, someone at SunGard Data Systems tried to implement an upgrade to the accounting system that Bank of New York Mellon uses to calculate NAVs for the mutual fund and ETF industries. Well wouldn’t you know it, there was a "glitch" after which something became "corrupted" (so, kind of like what happens inside the Beltway on a daily basis) and so, come Monday, investors couldn’t get accurate assessments of the fair value for the funds.

Speaking of last Monday, if memory serves us, something notable happened in equity markets... oh, that’s right, the Dow crashed 1,000 points out of the gate in a harrowing bout of flash-crashing, circuit breaker-tripping mayhem and that, according to SunGard, is completely unrelated to the fact that the company still, as of Sunday night, had not calculated NAVs for all of the affected funds. WSJ has more:

Bank of New York Mellon Corp.’s chief executive warned clients that his firm might not be able to solve all pricing problems caused by a computer glitch before markets open Monday, the latest delay in an unprecedented outage that has frustrated investors and prevented nearly 50 fund companies from providing accurate values for their holdings.

It “has taken far longer than any of us would have expected,” CEO Gerald Hassell said in a Sunday night conference call.

More than 100 employees at the New York company worked through the weekend to correct the glitch and provide up-to-date pricing for roughly 1,200 mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that have lacked accurate asset value figures since last Monday.

Mr. Hassell said BNY Mellon had calculated the net asset values for all funds through last Thursday, with the exception of one company. BNY didn’t name the company. Mr. Hassell told clients that the task would be complete for mutual funds sometime Monday morning but didn’t promise to provide all values before the market opens. Correct prices for exchange-traded funds are expected to be fixed before the open, he said.

The outage has roiled money-management firms that strive to provide investors with accurate pricing for their funds. In its first attempt at quantifying the outage, BNY Mellon said that 20 mutual-fund companies and 26 providers of exchange-traded funds had been affected.

Setbacks in resolving the issue have put BNY Mellon’s reputation on the line, said analysts, likely prompting some clients to at least consider whether to move their business to a rival custodian.

Fund companies affected include Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Guggenheim Investments, Prudential Investments, Federated Investors and Invesco PowerShares. All have had to rely on backup methods for calculating asset values, and are now reconciling the values that they published last week with the new data provided by BNY Mellon.

Got that? Essentially, if you own an ETF or a mutual fund provided by one of the affected companies, there’s no way to be sure that the NAV you’re looking at is accurate. ....

....Now to be fair, no one will ever know precisely what went wrong with the ETF pricing model last Monday, and our guess is that broken, manipulated markets are the root cause of the problem and to the extent that a “glitch” in SunGard’s systems is to blame, we can’t help but think that the sheer chaos which unfolded after the opening bell last Monday might have simply overwhelmed or otherwise confused the system.

Of course Bank of New York Mellon can’t simply come out and say that broken markets broke its accounting software because that would be to place the blame squarely where it belongs and everyone knows that is a very dangerous thing to do.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-31/bny-scrambles-fix-unresolved-etf-glitch-monday-market-open

China Rocked By Another Massive Chemical Explosion

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/31/2015 19:12 -0400

Seriously, what the f##k is going on over there?

*BLAST SEEN IN CHEM. IND. ZONE IN SHANDONG, CHINA: PEOPLES DAILY

This is the second explosion in Shandong, which both follow the huge and deadly explosion in Tianjin....

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-31/china-rocked-another-massive-chemical-explosion-peoples-daily-reports

https://twitter.com/Breaking3zero/status/638414858627608576/photo/1

China to close around 10,000 factories this week to ensure blue skies for big parade

Sun 30 Aug 2015 21:32:36 GMT

Author: Eamonn Sheridan | Category: News

Xinhua News Agency reports on preparations for the big parade in Beijing on Thursday

Temporary controls to last from August 28 to September 4
More than 10,000 factories reducing or stopping production
The suspension order for factories and steel mills covers a total of seven provinces
Work on nearly 9,000 construction sites stalling
Restrictions on road traffic
China is planning a parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II
The area affected is bigger than that during APEC in November 2014

via Wall Street Journal

Let's hope it all goes off smoothly and safely. Markets will, of course, be concerned about the impact of slowing production in China amidst broader concerns on the economy.

http://news.forexlive.com/!/china-to-close-around-10000-factories-this-week-to-ensure-blue-skies-for-big-parade-20150830

Markets will be concerned about slowed production?!? Are you kidding me? China's production - especially in the Steel industry has all but ground to a halt over the past few months BECAUSE NO ONE HAS ANY MONEY TO ORDER NEW SHIPS, CARS, CONTAINERS ETC..... The shipping rates index plummeted in July and August in a desperate attempt to convince companies to ship something.... ANYTHING! Because no one is BUYING. So is China's massive industry shutdown about clearing up the pollution so they have lovely blue skies for the day of their parade..... or is it a drastic attempt to equalize production vs sales?

And Then there Was Today....

Markets sank globally today, with the DOW closing 469points down.... BUT, THIS was an interesting piece of information:

The little-used NYSE rule that can tame a wild market

Krysia Lenzo | Mark Koba

9 Hours AgoCNBC.com

The New York Stock Exchange invoked the little-used Rule 48 to pre-empt panic trading at the stock market open on Tuesday after implementing it three times in a row last week.The goal of Rule 48 is to ensure orderly trading amid financial market turbulence. It's only used in the event that extremely high market volatility is likely to have a floor-wide impact on the ability of designated market makers (DMMs) to disseminate price indications before the bell.
Unlike a circuit breaker that stops stock trading, Rule 48 speeds up the opening by suspending the requirement that stock prices be announced at the market open. Those prices have to be approved by stock market floor managers before trading actually begins. Without that approval, stock trading can begin sooner.
To invoke Rule 48, an exchange would have to determine that certain conditions exist that would cause market disruptions. Those conditions include:

volatility during the previous day's trading session

trading in foreign markets before the open

substantial activity in the futures market before the open

the volume of pre-opening indications of interest

government announcements

Rule 48 was invoked a few times in recent years, including on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 and on Thursday, May 20, 2010. ...

Definition of Rule 48:

In the event that extremely high market volatility is likely to have a Floor-wide impact on the ability of [Designated Market Makers] to arrange for the fair and orderly opening, reopening following a market-wide halt of trading at the Exchange, or closing of trading at the Exchange and that absent relief, the operation of the Exchange is likely to be impaired, a qualified Exchange officer may declare an extreme market volatility condition with respect to trading on or through the facilities of the Exchange.

.. and because I mentioned this Jim Willie interview during TN, here is the video:

The financial Doom and Gloomers, whom everyone has loved to make fun of and call "conspiracy theorists", have been vindicated over the past week. As I discussed on Sunday's Transpicuous News update, the Global economy got tossed on on it's head.... headfirst into a 6 foot deep hole. The blood is in the water..... yet even the sharks are hiding, afraid to look at the bodies that are floating to the surface. Many of the main stream media's so called reports of this past weeks financial blood bath have pointed fingers at Hedge funds as making up the largest portion of the bodies .... and yet the response to the actions of the Swiss National Bank last week cracked the frozen facade of Christine Lagarde, and Central bankers all over the globe had to go change their tighty whities.

... And this was just an opening salvo of what's to come, and come very soon.

The following two articles give an excellent rundown of some of fall out, and give a peak of what's to come.

Remember: it's not about Fear- it's about BEING PREPARED.

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There’s blood on the Street: Obama economy in “recovery?” Banks just cut 50,000 jobs. Bank revenues lowest in 8 decades- since Great Depression.

Submitted by IWB, on January 19th, 2015

There’s blood on the Street.
In a wild swing of the ax that has shocked many pundits, Wall Street’s biggest banks have slashed nearly 50,000 jobs, and bonuses and expense money are being cut as profit opportunities dry up.
And there’s no easy way out, analysts say, because the Fed’s quantitative easing that once rescued the financial system with trillions of cheap dollars is — at least for now — history.
But while some analysts were unnerved by the carnage announced by banks last week during their earnings calls, the warning signs were there before — from lower trading and commodities revenues to currency risks and long-term interest rates that have trended lower.
The fourth quarter saw thousands more workers fired. Total reductions for 2014 were about 20,000 at Brian Moynihan’s Bank of America; 10,000 at Citigroup led by Michael Corbat; and 10,000 at Jaime Dimon’s JP Morgan. Morgan Stanley reports on Tuesday.
….
By Mayo’s calculations, bank revenues are the weakest in eight decades, a shocking throwback to the Great Depression.
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MORE:
http://nypost.com/2015/01/17/50000-wall-street-jobs-cut/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

Wall Street’s biggest banks have slashed nearly 50,000 jobs and bonuses
Include Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan and even Goldman Sachs
Cuts, announced last week, come as profits opportunities have dried up

It is home to the world’s largest stock exchange.

But now, Wall Street in New York has seen nearly 50,000 jobs slashed by its biggest banks.

In a move that has shocked many pundits, a number of banks including Bank of America, Citigroup and JPMorgan have cut thousands of jobs, as well as bonuses and expenses money.

The changes, announced last week, come as as profits opportunities are increasingly drying up

Near Billion Dollar Loss After Swiss Bank Change in Policy Blows Up Hedge Fund

Everest Capital's Global Fund has lost almost all its money after the Swiss National Bank scrapped its three-year-old cap on the franc against the euro, Bloomberg news reports.

The fund, like many others, had a major "carry trade" position on that worked only if the Swiss central bank continued to prop up the euro.

When SNB pulled the plug on support, carry traders experienced massive losses. (SEE:Understanding the Swiss Central Bank Move and Its Implications for the Rest of 2015: A Guide for Dummies) Everest had about $830 million in assets at the end of 2014, according to a client report cited by Bloomberg. That is now all gone, The fund is dead.

I expect more hedge fund bodies to float to the surface in coming days.
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2015/01/near-billion-dollar-loss-after-swiss.html

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