Consider Yourselves Warned Macro Man Friday, July 31, 2009 42 Comments Macro Man Consider yourselves warned. Conditions seem relatively benign, albeit noisy, and equities appear to be floating on the swells of a veritable... Read More
The Dreaded Return of Five Minute Macro Macro Man Thursday, July 30, 2009 32 Comments Macro Man Oh, dear. It looks like that most fearsome of beasts, "five minute macro", has made an unwelcome return. How else to explain ... Read More
The Beginning of the End....Or the End of the Beginning? Macro Man Wednesday, July 29, 2009 31 Comments Macro Man Man, oh man. Macro Man isn't sure if it's the cold, rainy "barbecue summer" or the unpleasantness of being crammed into a... Read More
Tell Me Lies, Tell Me Sweet Little Lies Macro Man Tuesday, July 28, 2009 39 Comments Macro Man The summer rumbles on with the risk-on orgy intact. After a brief wobble earlier in the day, the SPX closed on its highs of the years, and... Read More
Trading and Sports Macro Man Monday, July 27, 2009 21 Comments Macro Man As Macro Man sits here on a rainy Monday morning, watching his portfolio meander, he is struck by the similarities between trading and sport... Read More
There You Go Macro Man Friday, July 24, 2009 23 Comments Macro Man Well, there you go. The best way to spice things up a bit is to write a piece moaning about how uninteresting things have become. It all st... Read More
Fairly Uninteresting Macro Man Thursday, July 23, 2009 21 Comments Macro Man Despite the on-the-surface tensions causedby earnings season and the Bernanke testimony, it's frankly been a fairly uninteresting few da... Read More
Under The Weather Macro Man Wednesday, July 22, 2009 28 Comments Macro Man When the early hope of a long, hot summer in the UK gives way to the annual monsoon of April-temperature rains, it's not uncommon to pic... Read More
The Exits Macro Man Tuesday, July 21, 2009 26 Comments Macro Man The earnings love-in rolls on, with another sea of green "beats" on the old Bloomberg earnings report monitor. More than 76% of c... Read More
Moon Shot Macro Man Monday, July 20, 2009 19 Comments Macro Man There is perhaps an element of poetic justice that on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, risk assets of virtually every descri... Read More
A Conundrum Macro Man Friday, July 17, 2009 14 Comments Macro Man If equities blithely ignored the CIT bankruptcy earlier in the week and refused to go down......why are futures now rallying on a rumour of ... Read More
Falsies Macro Man Friday, July 17, 2009 16 Comments Macro Man You can tell it's summer, can't you? The market rallies yesterday after headlines blare that Papa Bear Nouriel Roubini now sees an e... Read More
Running Diary Macro Man Thursday, July 16, 2009 32 Comments Macro Man "When a man is tired of trading, he is tired of life." If Samuel Johnson were alive today and running a hedge fund portfolio, he ... Read More
Helicopter Wen? Macro Man Wednesday, July 15, 2009 19 Comments Macro Man Sigh, redux. For all the sturm und drang surrrounding the GS earnings release yesterday, the banner report was met with a collective yaw... Read More
G And S Macro Man Tuesday, July 14, 2009 28 Comments Macro Man Sigh. Yesterday started off so brightly. Macro Man's first trade out of the blocks was to buy some July upside in Eurostoxx as a half-... Read More
Monday, Monday Macro Man Monday, July 13, 2009 32 Comments Macro Man Perhaps its the after effects of an unusually deep Sunday night sleep, or maybe it's the knowledge that it's going to be a big week ... Read More
A Coiled Spring Macro Man Friday, July 10, 2009 30 Comments Macro Man On the face of it, yesterday was a pretty quiet day. The Alcoa "earnings" were largely shrugged off (no thanks to Bloomberg, which... Read More
An L Of A Recovery Macro Man Thursday, July 09, 2009 50 Comments Macro Man Macro Man was pleased to receive plenty of kind feedback on yesterday's little hip-hop effort, though somewhat chagrined to see that ... Read More
California's Bust Macro Man Tuesday, July 07, 2009 44 Comments Macro Man (With apologies to Dre and Tupac) California...knows how to party California....don’t got no money In the citaaaaay of LA In the citaaaaay o... Read More
Remarkable! Macro Man Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10 Comments Macro Man So after China, a country with a considerable aluminum manufacturing capacity running well below max capacity, starts a fairly-clearly-impos... Read More
The Return of Team 1250? Macro Man Tuesday, July 07, 2009 23 Comments Macro Man Sigh. It looked like it was so on, baby, but yesterday proved to be something of an anticlimax. The opportunity hasn't been bungled ... Read More
It's On, Baby...It Is So On Macro Man Monday, July 06, 2009 16 Comments Macro Man A belated and abbreviated post today, as Macro Man's been busy dealing with both market and non-market issues. Keeping to the former, he... Read More