AlphaCapital Anstalt ... But there is one large investor - Alpha Capital Anstalt - which holds a Microbot note convertible to stock at under a dollar per share ... Last May, as shares of home testing products distributor Decision Diagnostics (OTCPK.DECN) traded around the year's high, Alpha Capital Anstalt bought nearly 10% of the company.
“Are we on the brink of another Credit-Anstalt moment?” ... And on May 11, 1931, Credit-Anstalt relented and declared bankruptcy ... In the wake of Credit-Anstalt, the market had fully rebounded following an initial plunge a full 40 trading days after its bankruptcy before the lights completely went out.
[1] LukeGreen, Riskmetrics. com ... S ... S ... S ... This swollen state of affairs starts to read uncomfortably like the set-up for the May '31 collapse of Credit-Anstalt ... As Europe engages in a summer of very messy, very public horse-trading – complete with balaclava street festivals – expect the dollar is likely to rise within its multi-year channel.
(1) monetary base expansion in the 1920s, (2) the cessation of this expansion in 1929; (3) the governments' raising of tariff and trade barriers in 1930 all over the West, and (4) the collapse of the Austria's Credit Anstalt Bank in 1931.