May 2016 ~ Macro Man

A small confession

Macro Man is still a bit bleary-eyed from a long weekend at a kids' footy tournament in Boston. With two boys playing in five different...

Fireworks or fizzle? Markets eagerly anticipate finding out what sort of Memorial Day barbecue Janet Yellen plans to serve today less than ...

While this week has been a solemn one thus far for your author, equity markets have been in full on party mode. Although the reason for the...

Macro Man has had a death in the family, so posting will be sporadic over the next few days as he will be away for some of the week. With ...

Indecision remains the order of the day. Depending on your perspective, the SPX is either perched on a knife-edge (or at least, the necklin...

Raise your hand if you saw that one coming. After five months of prevarication, the Fed was as clear as it's been in a long time that n...

Spooz go up, Spooz go down. Sometimes good news is good news (yay! no recession!) and sometimes it's bad news (boo! the Fed might hike!...

Macro Man has managed to get his hands on a pretty good dataset of global equity market sector returns. The amount of information contain...

Readers of a certain vintage may recall that in the early days of John Travolta's career, even before he strutted along the halls of Ryd...

A long, long time ago (it must have been in the late 1990's), Macro Man can recall reading some somewhat flippant investment advice (he ...

A couple of weeks ago, Macro Man noted that markets seemed, if not sanguine, at least relatively calm about the prospects of Brexit. The e...

Self-appointed financial moral guardian Germany continues to see its trade surplus burgeon, even as import growth (not pictured, obviously...