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...
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Book Talkin'
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 ...
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A Quarter Of The Way Through
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...
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Is It Really That Easy?
Sometimes, it's possible to overthink this business. Maybe it's the case that this angry missive from Congress to Geithner.... ...en...
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Monday Musings
Well, whether it was technical exhaustion, triple witching, or the passage of the [ REDACTED ] bill, equities have sagged since Friday...
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Pennies In Front Of The Steamroller
Does the investment proposition to the left look attractive to you? Picking pennies up off the street ahead of an onrushing (OK, oncrawling...
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The Well Runs Dry
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...
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Will They Or Won't They?
"Will they or won't they?" In ordinary circumstances, when such a question is asked on the day of an FOMC policy announcement,...
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Hut Hut....Hike!
Although the Super Bowl is long past us and the sports pages are now dominated by (delete as appropriate) NCAA basketball/Champions League/s...
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A China Catalyst?
Although he personally finds equity markets to be fairly uninteresting at the moment, caught in some sort of soul-destroying (for those shor...
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Thoughts On Trade
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 ...
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20 Questions
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...
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Zhou Me The Money
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 ...
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Short End Musings
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...
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Greek Marathon
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...
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Some People Just Like a Good Moan
Some people just like a good moan every so often. Take, for example, your intrepid author; when the morning train service faces yet anothe...
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The Day of Reckoning
Another Monday, another percent in the S&P 500. Like Colt .45 , the legend of Magic Monday works every time! Tuesday, however, is a ...
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