Albert Edwards

Japanese government-bond yields are surging, and veteran Société Générale strategist Albert Edwards says the move could yank the rug from under U.S. stocks and Treasurys, warning of a potential "global financial-market Armageddon." What Happened: "Both the U.S. Treasury and equity markets are...

The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: Last week ended negative on weakness concentrated in heavily-weighted index constituents. Remember This: “The Fed essentially acknowledged they were a bit behind the curve with their forecast on the economy, as projections needed tweaking to reflect...

Albert Edwards of SocGen (Societe Generale SA (ADR) (OTC: SCGLY) has held a bearish view for quite some time and on Friday released a new note to clients, which is merely a follow-up from previous bearish reports. Edwards said in early January that the S&P 500 index could collapse by 75 percent...

Slumping U.S. profits now makes a recession appear inevitable, according to Societe Generale analyst Albert Edwards. Edwards argues the steep decline in U.S. whole-economy profits that has been recorded in recent quarters is almost always a sign of a recession on the horizon. Edwards believes this...

In a new report, Societe Generale analyst Albert Edwards discussed the implications of China’s forex reserve burn in recent months and what could happen when the nation can no longer support the renminbi. Edwards believes that the recent turn of events in China indicates a collapse of the...

In a new report, Societe Generale analyst Albert Edwards explains why the bumpy start to 2016 for global equity markets could be the beginning of a catastrophic collapse in equity valuations to levels below the ones seen during the worst of the Financial Crisis. According to Edwards, the...

Societe Generale’s Albert Edwards believes that the United States could soon set negative interest rates for the first time. Edwards argued that the United States is currently in a worse economic position than Japan was prior to its lost decade. He presented data that China’s slumping...

Analysts are attempting to put probabilities on the likelihood of a bear market, ranging from a few percentage points to to 99.7 percent. As Business Insider reported early Thursday morning, Societe Generale's Albert Edwards is betting on the latter. From his morning note: "[L]et me...

U.S. stocks declined as concerns escalated over Ukraine, two days before its citizens will vote in a referendum to split from Ukraine and become part of Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin is gearing up to “invade eastern Ukraine” as a six hour talk between U.S. Secretary of State John...