Fighting Darth Vader Macro Man Thursday, April 30, 2009 20 Comments Macro Man Macro Man feels like he's channelling Star Wars. Yesterday's action was drearily predictable, with the poor GDP figure met with r... Read More
Sure Enough Macro Man Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8 Comments Macro Man Sure enough, GDP prints a horrible figure and tocks go down for a millisecond before trampolining back up to within a couple of ticks of the... Read More
Same (Stuff), Different Day. Macro Man Wednesday, April 29, 2009 6 Comments Macro Man Perhaps the real answer to yesterday's query about yen vols is that markets have run out of steam and that each day looks more or less l... Read More
Dubai or Durent? Macro Man Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2 Comments Macro Man It looks like the answer is pretty clearly Durent. Dubai apartment prices fell 42% last quarter....and that's from Q4, not Q1 of last y... Read More
What's Up With Yen Vols (Other Than Yen Vols)? Macro Man Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9 Comments Macro Man So now that even Mrs. Watanabe has decided that the road to prosperity is paved with yen shorts, USD/JPY and all its yen-cross buddies have ... Read More
Back (Sort Of) Macro Man Monday, April 27, 2009 26 Comments Macro Man Macro Man is back, if in a slightly abbreviated form. While he intended to keep a reasonably close eye on things today, Dame Fortune had ot... Read More
Contest Results Macro Man Thursday, April 23, 2009 7 Comments Macro Man Hearty congratulations go to reader DVP, the first to crack the secret identity of "Dick": AIG. Special mention must also go to r... Read More
Just When It Starts To Get Interesting..... Macro Man Tuesday, April 21, 2009 33 Comments Macro Man Just when things start to get interesting- the SPX puts in its worst day since March 2nd and FX carry gets up close and personal with Ms. Ku... Read More
Short-covering And The Kubler-Ross Cycle Macro Man Monday, April 20, 2009 16 Comments Macro Man Macro Man enjoyed the weekend, and not just because the sun made one of its all-too-rare forays from behind the clouds over south-eastern En... Read More
Harry and Tom Macro Man Friday, April 17, 2009 19 Comments Macro Man It is heartwarming, as a citizen of the world and a taxpayer of the United States, to see that another of our beleaguered financial institut... Read More
What Will It Take? Macro Man Thursday, April 16, 2009 6 Comments Macro Man It's day two of the "Micro Man" investment regime, and Macro Man can only say that these "second derivative" guys ar... Read More
Tom, Dick, and Harry Macro Man Wednesday, April 15, 2009 21 Comments Macro Man And the drumbeat goes on. Following on from yesterday's tepid price action in equities, markets opened on the back foot this morning bu... Read More
Wistful, Slightly Bitter, and More Than A Little Jealous Macro Man Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10 Comments Macro Man Sigh. If only Macro Man had been able to hire Costanza over the weekend. For if he had, then ol' George would have told him that the c... Read More
Easter Monday Poem: It's Raining Yen Macro Man Monday, April 13, 2009 8 Comments Macro Man "Inspired" by a four-day Easter weekend in which the sun has not appeared once, here's the first bank holiday poem of the year... Read More
George Costanza, Hedge Fund Manager? Macro Man Thursday, April 09, 2009 21 Comments Macro Man So this is what it's come to. Macro Man is considering finding and hiring George Costanza, the hapless buffoon from Seinfeld , to sit at... Read More
Time For Some Signal Macro Man Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8 Comments Macro Man Enough of the noise, it's time for some signal. Earnings season kicked off last night, and the results were less than compelling for the... Read More
The Joys Of Spring Macro Man Tuesday, April 07, 2009 24 Comments Macro Man Ah, the joys of spring. Daffodils are in full bloom, the grass has started growing again, and Macro Man is awakened every morning by the dul... Read More
Make A New World Macro Man Monday, April 06, 2009 27 Comments Macro Man For the second month in a row, the US nonfarm payroll figure came out bang in line with expectations, missing the consensus forecast by just... Read More
Is It May Yet? Macro Man Friday, April 03, 2009 19 Comments Macro Man Well, the latest edition of policy "shock and awe" was released yesterday, with FASB adjusting the mark to market rules and the G2... Read More
On Your Marks, Get Set, Go Macro Man Thursday, April 02, 2009 6 Comments Macro Man Yesterday's protests were nowhere near as bad as feared, though we should probably reserve judgement until the return leg is played toda... Read More
Looking Forward Macro Man Wednesday, April 01, 2009 12 Comments Macro Man Well, at long last, March is over. As frustrating as it was, and as difficult as trading was, it was actually Macro Man's best March ... Read More