Cliff Up. The Broker Call

It's a quiet Friday afternoon and as we know when there is nothing else to yell about "The Cliff" takes center stage. So TMM a...

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A Thanksgiving Quiz

1. Thanksgiving is  a) A time to remember and give thanks for coming through dark times.  b) A time for family. c) A time to make wide pr...

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Bingo Calls

We have felt like involuntary bungee jumpers over the last week, praying for the cord to tighten before we hit the concrete. This week sees ...

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Business Bicycle.

Our last post saw this as part of an anonymous comment - "I am commenting for the first time to just point out that it feels like the ...

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Decoding the Soundbites

Decoding the soundbites... GREECE - EU-IMF FEUD ERUPTS OVER GREEK DEBT Market response: If even the EU and IMF cant agree on a package what...

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Moral Petards

A US partial holiday today is being used as an excuse for quiet markets so micro-numbers are of little interest today. But the past week has...

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Holiday Poem. Phone frustrations.

Phone Frustrations I just wrote A poem for you. Took some time. A good one too. Clever words Describing dealing. Lilts that jangled, ...

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Policy Uncertainty Falls.

This afternoon's dramatic moves lower in equities and oil have been pinned on Romney trades being unwound, but we do get the feeling th...

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Now what?

So that's that then. The US X-Factor is over, we hope the winner,  as chosen by YOU the voting public, goes on to have many hits and the...

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Hollande's Regrets

Today is box-ticking day in the US, but we really haven't got anything to add to the debate.  Instead we are more interested in the data...

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Investors and the Fiscal Cliff

Team Macro Man can't believe that the US administration will take the economy over the fiscal cliff. However we can see some investors g...

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