May 2015 ~ Macro Man

The yen breaks out

For the first time in what seems like aeons, there's been some intersting price action in the markets with which Macro Man has been most...

Behind the numbers in the FX fixing scandal, which represented a "brazen 'heads I win, tails you lose' scheme", according ...

So the ECB's recent revelation that they will frontload QE purchases ahead of the illiquid summer period represents: a) A sensible pr...

1) The quarterly annualized run-rate of retail sales has been at its worst level since the crisis: 2) Forward earnings estimates have...

1) How high will Bund yields go in this rout? 2) Will Schatz yields go positive again this year? 3) The Shanghai Comp is currently 4400....

Suddenly, the long cold winter appears to be but a distant memory. Spring is in the air- and not just because of the warm sunny weather we...

Hard as it is to believe, election day in the UK is finally here. The timing is particularly poignant for Macro Man, as it was on the heels...

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves, don't they? Ed Miliband's ill-conceived plan to erect a monolith listing his vapid camp...