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A ‘Gettin’ Away With Murder’ Type Of Day: Thursday Market Wrap

July 20, 2017

Thursday was all about people who might have gotten away with murder…

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Kuroda Vs. The World: BoJ Moves On The 5Y As YCC ‘Mission Creep’ Looms

July 12, 2017July 12, 2017

Dammit no one is really talking about this, but it’s definitely notable. On both Monday

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Global Stocks Are Happy. Gold Is Sad. China! I Found Some Inflation In Norway.

July 10, 2017July 10, 2017

Well, I’d say “it’s quiet out there,” but that’s cliché. So how about this: “ain’t

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“A Major, Serious” Situation In Japan, PMIs Galore, And A Deadline For Qatar

July 3, 2017July 3, 2017

Ok, so Shinzo Abe’s LDP suffered a stunning loss in Tokyo assembly elections over the weekend,

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Bank Of Japan Breaks Bond Market As Holdings Rise To Hilarious 387,000,000,000,000 Yen

June 28, 2017

“Most central banks are playing at 10, all the way up, all the way up, you’re on ten, where can you go from there?” 

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Peter Pan’s Revenge: Kuroda Thinks You’re Crazy To Think BoJ Is Not Still Crazy

June 16, 2017

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.”

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Full Week Ahead Preview: Fed In Focus

June 11, 2017

Hopefully, the weekend gave you a chance to catch your breath after “Super Thursday.”

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Bank Of Japan’s ETF Holdings Surge 80% To Cartoonish 16,000,000,000,000 Yen

June 4, 2017

“The total marks an 80% rise from a year earlier and more than a sevenfold increase since the central bank kicked off its quantitative and qualitative easing — adding riskier assets to its balance sheet — in April 2013.”

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Revisiting The “Tokyo Whale”

May 24, 2017

“We assume the BoJ’s current ETF holdings stand around Â¥15.7tn ($144bn), i.e. approximately 75% of the total assets in Japanese equity ETFs.”

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Traders Be Like “WTF?!” As Trump Is Desperate Despot, Nuclear War Beckons

May 10, 2017May 10, 2017

So the elephant in the room is clearly Donald Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director

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Kuroda Shrugs, Twitter Lampoons Sweden, Deutsche Crumbles: Welcome To Thursday

April 27, 2017April 27, 2017

Ok, so as detailed earlier this morning, the first thing you should note about the

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This Is How Much QE Matters…

April 8, 2017

Right, so 10Y yields are all anyone wants to talk about. In fact, you’ve probably

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China Calls, Hikes Rates After Fed; Kuroda Triples Down On The Laughs After BoJ

March 16, 2017March 16, 2017

It was a fairly lively overnight session on the heels of the Fed. We start

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The First Week Of The Rest Of Your Life

March 13, 2017March 13, 2017

Welcome to the first week of the rest of your life. By now you all

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Your Quick Guide To A Big Week

March 12, 2017

As you’re aware, this is a big week. The Fed takes center stage, but the

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“And You Thought The Bernanke Put Was Dead”: World’s Biggest Pension Fund Posts Largest Quarterly Return In History

March 3, 2017

Do you know what helps out a whole helluva lot when you’re massively long Japanese equities and when you need a weaker currency to boost your overseas holdings?

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Markets Relieved After Trump/Abe Meeting, Reflation Narrative Intact

February 13, 2017February 13, 2017

Well, it was all aboard the reflation train right out of the gate in early

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Analyzing Yen-Sanity Ahead Of Friday’s Trump/Abe Pow-wow

February 9, 2017

Watch USDJPY. I say it all the time. There is perhaps no better real time

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On Payrolls Friday, One Trader Asks: “Are You Feeling Lucky?”

February 3, 2017February 3, 2017

Here we are on payrolls Friday after a week in which a lot of sh*t

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Daily Kickstart (US Payrolls Awaited, China Tightens, BoJ Flouts Trump)

February 3, 2017

“Non-Farm Friday is no time to plead exhaustion,” Bloomberg’s Richard Breslow wrote earlier this morning

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Daily Kickstart (Dollar Dumps After Fed Farce, Deutsche Bank Plunges)

February 2, 2017February 2, 2017

Perhaps fearing some kind of Erdogan-esque reprisal from the White House, the Fed pussyfooted its

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Daily Kickstart (Trump Trainwreck Overshadows BoJ, Eurozone Inflation, GDP)

January 31, 2017

Well, this is officially a f*cking trainwreck. As you’re probably aware by now, President Trump

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Goldman Previews This Week’s Key Events

January 30, 2017

As mentioned earlier this morning, it’s a busy week. We’ve got multiple Fed meetings, a

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Daily Kickstart (Japan Battles Bond Markets, Mexico/Turkey Battle FX Traders, May Meets W/Trump)

January 27, 2017January 27, 2017

As is rapidly becoming custom, we start with FX markets, where the USDJPY rose again,

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Bank Of Japan’s Batshit Policy Prescriptions Explained In One Short Video

December 28, 2016October 13, 2021

Summarized with a slightly modified quote from the video: “It remains to be seen if this crazy sh*t will work.”

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A “Stimulating” Pocket Guide To Central Bank Largesse

December 24, 2016

On Friday in “The Ghosts Of Central Banks Past And Future,” I outlined the history

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The Ghosts Of Central Banks Past And Future

December 23, 2016

Well, it’s just about over. The greatest (or worst, depending on how you’re inclined to

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