S**t Just Hit The Fan Across Markets, Regional Banks Crashing

Weak JOLTS?, Poor factory orders, hot EU inflation, surprise RBA rate-hike, a sudden realization of the urgency and seriousness of the debt ceiling debacle, Europe back from vacation, or just pre-FOMC jitters?

Or was it this!?

As a reminder, the Fed NOW has next week’s dire SLOOS report in hand

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 2, 2023

Who knows to be frank but everything went just a little bit turbo, starting with a total collapse in regional banks…

And despite the Biden admin claiming that FRC was just another ‘outlier’ business model, PacWest, Western Alliance, and Zions (among others) are in a freefall…

Looks like we are back to “who’s next” after yesterday’s Milken Conference. Here’s a guide…

But the ‘big banks’ are also getting slammed…

The majors all instantly puked at the US cash open, led by Small Caps (but The Dow and S&P are down over 1%)…

“Most Shorted” stocks are getting monkeyhammered lower…

Notably, 0-DTE traders are fighting this downtrend hard…

Source: SpotGamma

But VIX1D is exploding higher…

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— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 1, 2023

Just as we warned yesterday, the surge in yields (driven by a heavy corporate calendar and illiquid marke) has reversed entirely with yields collapsing this morning…

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