Here are 3 thoughts to start what's shaping up to be a pretty big week: * The IMF board votes today on whether to include the RMB in t...
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Ten Things I'm Thankful For
The last couple of weeks have really refocused attention on how fortunate most of us are to live in relative peace and harmony in our daily ...
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Economies and markets
While the situation between Turkey and Syria certainly appears to be serious, it does provide a useful laboratory experiment to test Macro M...
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Knowing where to look
Macro Man's already come to grips with his basketball defeat and rationalized it away. A little bit of measuring last night revealed t...
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Feeling old
Yesterday witnessed a watershed event chez Macro Man. Much to your author's chagrin and despite his best efforts, Macro Boy the Elder ...
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Sense checking the EUR/USD trade
Hi ho silver! Well, not really; after a nice break higher in the US morning, price action was actually pretty flaccid. So despite silver ...
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3 points on the Fed minutes
* It was interesting (and kind of disappointing) that the Fed didn't provide any discussion of the implementation of lifting rates off ...
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Minutes and buybacks
Today we get one of the Fed's last chances to slam on the brakes before next month's FOMC decision, where the market is currently pr...
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No man's land
Yesterday worked out pretty much as planned...that is, until Europe went home. European equities gapped lower on the open, drifted back to ...
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Ugh, indeed.
Little did your author know when he titled Friday's post how tragically accurate the sentiment would be. The horrific attacks on Paris...
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Another look at EZ equities
So with earnings season largely behind us, Macro Man thought it might be useful to re-examine his view on European equities. Although the E...
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A question of yield
Macro Man needs to keep it kind of short today as he is in the process of migrating to a new computer and he needs to work on "the buil...
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More on PEs and earnings
Monday largely went according to plan. The dollar softened a bit, gold broke its losing streak, and equities evidently decided that with F...
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Time for a pause
Was Friday's payroll report a game changer? Not as such...markets were already leaning towards a Fed rate hike in December, so the stro...
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Boom shakalaka
If you read this blog, you undoubtedly know that today's employment figure was a blowout. Beyond all the headline strength, even wages ...
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