Synthetic Payroll Day Macro Man Wednesday, March 31, 2010 11 Comments Macro Man Welcome to payroll day! OK, it's not literally payroll day, but given that a) we get ADP today, and b) markets are actually open on th... Read More
Book Talkin' Macro Man Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8 Comments Macro Man After a poor night's sleep, Macro Man was in a foul mood this morning as he stared bleary-eyed at his screens. That is, until he read ... Read More
A Quarter Of The Way Through Macro Man Monday, March 29, 2010 6 Comments Macro Man It's hard to believe that we're almost a quarter of the way through the year already, yet Wednesday marks the close of the third mon... Read More
Riddles Macro Man Friday, March 26, 2010 17 Comments Macro Man Q. What's big red and ugly, and has a long tail? A. A US Treasury auction! Last night's 7 year auction went just as poorly as Wedn... Read More
Is It Really That Easy? Macro Man Thursday, March 25, 2010 11 Comments Macro Man Sometimes, it's possible to overthink this business. Maybe it's the case that this angry missive from Congress to Geithner.... ...en... Read More
Wham! Macro Man Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12 Comments Macro Man Yesterday, Macro Man suggested that the market needed a "wake me up before you go-go" call in the event anything interesting happe... Read More
Mythology Macro Man Tuesday, March 23, 2010 17 Comments Macro Man Another day, and here we are looking at the same old to-and-fro with Greece. Someone leaks a story that the EU is discussing aid, which the ... Read More
Monday Musings Macro Man Monday, March 22, 2010 9 Comments Macro Man Well, whether it was technical exhaustion, triple witching, or the passage of the [ REDACTED ] bill, equities have sagged since Friday... Read More
Pennies In Front Of The Steamroller Macro Man Friday, March 19, 2010 9 Comments Macro Man Does the investment proposition to the left look attractive to you? Picking pennies up off the street ahead of an onrushing (OK, oncrawling... Read More
The Well Runs Dry Macro Man Thursday, March 18, 2010 5 Comments Macro Man Sometimes, the well just runs dry and you can't muster anything interesting to say. Today, alas, is one of those days for Macro Man. (So... Read More
Chermany Macro Man Wednesday, March 17, 2010 11 Comments Macro Man Well, in the end the FOMC announcement was much ado about nothing. There were a few tweaks- a couple of positive, one negative- to the Ja... Read More
Will They Or Won't They? Macro Man Tuesday, March 16, 2010 5 Comments Macro Man "Will they or won't they?" In ordinary circumstances, when such a question is asked on the day of an FOMC policy announcement,... Read More
Repo 105 Macro Man Monday, March 15, 2010 6 Comments Macro Man With apologies to Lou Bega .... Ladies and gentlemen, this is Repo 105. One, two, three, four, five Everybody on the desk so come on let... Read More
Hut Hut....Hike! Macro Man Friday, March 12, 2010 13 Comments Macro Man Although the Super Bowl is long past us and the sports pages are now dominated by (delete as appropriate) NCAA basketball/Champions League/s... Read More
A China Catalyst? Macro Man Thursday, March 11, 2010 12 Comments Macro Man Although he personally finds equity markets to be fairly uninteresting at the moment, caught in some sort of soul-destroying (for those shor... Read More
Thoughts On Trade Macro Man Wednesday, March 10, 2010 11 Comments Macro Man It was all looking like an orthodox drift higher in equity markets last night until the SPX rolled over in a late-session swoon, perhaps on ... Read More
20 Questions Macro Man Tuesday, March 09, 2010 22 Comments Macro Man It's been a bit of an indifferent start to the week- yesterday's US equity volume was the lowest of the year- and Macro Man is frank... Read More
Zhou Me The Money Macro Man Monday, March 08, 2010 14 Comments Macro Man Well, when all was said and done Friday's payroll report wasn't half bad. The BLS clearly scuffled with figuring out just how much ... Read More
Short End Musings Macro Man Friday, March 05, 2010 23 Comments Macro Man OK, first things first. Sadly, the last few days have seen the emergence of a particularly boorish class of troll in the comments section, a... Read More
Greek Marathon Macro Man Thursday, March 04, 2010 62 Comments Macro Man Man, this Greek saga (myth? legend?) just rumbles on and on and on, doesn't it? The last 24 hours has seen a raft of developments, from... Read More
Some People Just Like a Good Moan Macro Man Wednesday, March 03, 2010 66 Comments Macro Man Some people just like a good moan every so often. Take, for example, your intrepid author; when the morning train service faces yet anothe... Read More
The Day of Reckoning Macro Man Tuesday, March 02, 2010 33 Comments Macro Man Another Monday, another percent in the S&P 500. Like Colt .45 , the legend of Magic Monday works every time! Tuesday, however, is a ... Read More