Article: How Jim Cramer Is Approaching Bank Stocks

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How Jim Cramer Is Approaching Bank Stocks

Katherine Ross, 21 June 2020

A report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists found five global banks moved “staggering sums of illicit cash for shadowy characters and criminal networks that have spread chaos and undermined democracy around the world.”

The report said that JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank and other financial services companies had defied money laundering crackdowns even after being fined by U.S. authorities.

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Article: Short selling tests China’s zeal for market reform

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Short selling tests China’s zeal for market reform

Samuel Shen, Alun John, 19 June 2020

As the novel coronavirus swept the world this year, Chinese hedge fund manager Yuan Yuwei made lucrative short-selling bets against stocks such as New York-listed Starbucks Corp SBUX.O, Yum China Holdings Inc YUMC.N and Walt Disney Co DIS.N. At home, he barely bothered. “Short-selling is too inefficient in China. Either there are no available stocks to borrow, or it takes too long,” said Yuan, who runs a global macro fund for Olympus Hedge Fund Investments.

Short sellers sell borrowed shares in the hope of buying them back when prices fall and pocketing the difference. Those such as Carson Block of Muddy Waters and Dan David of Wolfpack Research have made their name shorting Chinese stocks but, like Yuan, their bets have been against stocks in New York or Hong Kong, not Shanghai or Shenzhen. Continue reading “Article: Short selling tests China’s zeal for market reform”

Article: FuelCell Energy Under Investigation for PPP Loan

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FuelCell Energy Under Investigation for PPP Loan

Howard Smith, 19 June 2020

Connecticut-based FuelCell Energy (NASDAQ:FCEL) is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its acceptance of a $6.5 million CARES Act PPP loan. The PPP program allocated up to $349 billion to help small businesses affected by closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The intent was to help the businesses maintain employees on the payroll for up to eight weeks, including providing benefits. Companies were also permitted to use the funds for rents, utilities, and mortgages.

FuelCell Energy is now being investigated over its application for, and acceptance of, a $6.5 million loan in April, according to a Financial Times report. The company said the information request from the SEC was voluntary, and that it is cooperating with the investigation, according to the report.
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Article: Wirecard Shares Plunge 60% As Auditors ‘Unable To Verify’ $2 Billion In Cash On Its Books

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Wirecard Shares Plunge 60% As Auditors ‘Unable To Verify’ $2 Billion In Cash On Its Books

As we’ve previously noted, German regulators have bent over backwards to accommodate Wirecard, even going so far as to discourage short sellers from targeting the stock, and launching an investigation into an FT reporter who published the first allegations about fraud within the fast-growing digital payments company.

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Comment: Insiders always have deep broad advance knowledge. Wirecard appears to have some combination of internal issues AND be under attack. The plunging prices are covering the shorts.  NSA has all the data but is not doing “trade intelligence” or white collar crime counterintelligence.

Article: Robinhood Selling Order Flow to Enable Illegal Front Running by Wall Street

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New filing shows Robinhood brought in close to $100 million by offloading order flow in the first quarter

Frank Chaparro

TheBlockCrypto.com, 15 June 2020

  • The new 606 filed at the end of May shows net payments made to Robinhood increased from $19.4 million in January to $45.4 million in March
  • Payments for options orders made up the lion’s share of total payments

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Video: Inside Lehman Brothers

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Inside Lehman Brothers is the autopsy of a crime by those who tried to prevent it from within. As mortgage brokers for Lehman’s subsidiary BNC, Linda Weekes and her Californian colleagues were at the forefront of the subprime crisis. Matthew Lee, then headquartered in New York, was the first leader to have refused to validate the accounts tainted by fraudulent transactions. At the time nobody listened to these whistleblowers. In 2007 and 2008 other banks lost by the same greed and were saved by the Fed. On Wall Street they say Lehman Brothers was “sacrificed”. It was necessary to make them an example, to promise that this would not happen again. Today banks have recovered their health, and with it, their bad habits. The labels have changed but the mechanisms remain, unlocked by Donald Trump whose cabinet of advisors are the ones who drove the system into bankruptcy back in 2008. Inside Lehman Brothers is the result of an investigative survey conducted by the team for over two years.

https://www.watchonline.guide//movies/inside-lehman-brothers

Article: Why You Should Care About Mercurity Fintech Holding Inc.’s (NASDAQ:MFH) Low Return On Capital

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Why You Should Care About Mercurity Fintech Holding Inc.’s (NASDAQ:MFH) Low Return On Capital

Simply Wall St, 14 June 2020

Today we’ll look at Mercurity Fintech Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:MFH) and reflect on its potential as an investment. Specifically, we’ll consider its Return On Capital Employed (ROCE), since that will give us an insight into how efficiently the business can generate profits from the capital it requires.

First, we’ll go over how we calculate ROCE. Second, we’ll look at its ROCE compared to similar companies. Finally, we’ll look at how its current liabilities affect its ROCE. Continue reading “Article: Why You Should Care About Mercurity Fintech Holding Inc.’s (NASDAQ:MFH) Low Return On Capital”

$100 Trillion Stolen by Wall Street Recoverable — Robert Steele’s Open Letter to the President

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11 June 2020

Open Letter to the President

Leverage NSA, Clean Up Wall Street, Engage Authentic Black Leaders

Mr. President,

It is my good fortune to be a former spy and also good friends with Bill Binney and known to Mike Flynn.  It has taken me months to arrange for Bill Binney to speak on the record, in a sixteen minute video at https://tinyurl.com/NSA-10-30-100. With ten people in thirty days Bill can deliver all the data you need to confiscate, through civil and criminal forfeiture, $100 trillion (or more) in assets acquired by varied Wall Street financial criminals among whom Goldman Sachs is by far the largest, using naked short selling and money laundering to steal from all.

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