August 2014 ~ Macro Man

The race to the finish

Apologies for the lack of postings this week but Macro Man felt curiously uninspired by the ongoing rally in all manner of assets. Big-figu...

In her Jackson Hole speech today, Janet Yellen released a technical note detailing the construction of the Fed's new labor market condit...

Just ahead of the week's big Fed events, and with the sour taste of the BOE's zigging and zagging left in the mouth, Macro Man canno...

So here we go again. Stocks have (probably correctly) looked through ongoing tensions in Ukraine and are within a pitching wedge of the al...

Short sterling pricing before UK Mansion House evening, June 12th: The money quote from Mark Carney's speech: "This has impl...

Macro Man had the, ahem, "pleasure" of taking his youngest, Macro Boy the Younger, to the cinema over the weekend to view the late...

1) The ECB does not wish to become a sausage factory 2) Russian banks can still access ECB liquidity, but only if they bring a note from t...

Oh dear. While Macro Man has been cycling halfway across Massachusetts, his mates have been sending him some rather ugly charts. The DAX...

As the digital clock ticked over to 8.30, Bond watched his screen carefully. Le Chiffre showed his hand, and while it was a good one, someh...

The scent and stink and sweat of a trading floor are nauseating at eight in the morning. Bacon sandwiches and lashings of hot black coffee ...