Full Energy Retard
Some of the most incredible charts you’ll ever see are those depicting spread compression in
Chart Check (Spot The Odd One Out)
Reflections on the reflation trinity…
The Trend May Bend, “But Will It Break”?
“Trends go through life cycles. There’s more to them than just a big move that happens because some market theme becomes all the rage.”
Is Now The Time To Short The British Pound?
Ok, so sterling had its best day since 2008 on Tuesday. It was as if
Daily Kickstart (Yen, Gold Fall; Inflation, IP Data, Goldman, Yellen All On Deck)
Traders put the brakes on the flight to safety bid on Wednesday as gold and the
Ray Dalio: “Populism Scares Me”
Anyway, it’s not populism that should “scare” Dalio, it’s the possibility that stock/bond return correlations flip positive and stay there during some kind of nightmarish VaR shock that sees 10s at 3.5%+.
Where Liberals Screwed Up
Perhaps trying to frighten voters away from the populist cause by referencing dire economic consequences isn’t the best way to go about things when there are plenty of other common sense arguments for preserving a progressive agenda and for cultivating multiculturalism.
Where Are Stocks Headed? Let’s Ask The News
Apparently, the number of times the words “bullish” and “bearish” appear in Bloomberg stories is correlated to S&P 500 performance.
Russia Prints Commemorative Trump Coin (Video Included)
“One side of the coins feature an image of Mr. Trump’s face, while the other shows the Statue of Liberty and has an inscription of the ‘In Trump we trust’ slogan.”
Chart Check (The Most Important Chart In The World)
What happens to stocks now?…
Tuesday Humor (“Heroes”)
“I don’t like heroes. The concept of heroes is never great”…
“Nothing To Get Bullish About”: Is The Long Dollar Trade Dead?
“There’s nothing to get bullish about in la-la dollar-land”…
Daily Kickstart (King Trump Tanks King Dollar)
It’s “too complicated.” I imagine that probably sums up Donald Trump’s feelings about a lot
Sterling Spikes As May Delivers Brexit Speech
“I don’t want to see the EU unravel”…
Here’s Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Message To The World
“There is no point in blaming economic globalization for the world’s problems because that is simply not the case.”
One Trader’s Message To Markets: No, This Is Not A “Bad Dream”
Normally, my sentiments with regard to markets align pretty closely with those of former FX trader and Bloomberg contributor Richard Breslow. Not this morning.
Western Democracy’s Last Stand: Merkel Versus Trump
The irony in all of this is that should Merkel lose the battle, the savior of Western democratic ideals may well end up being a communist…
Chart Check (A History Of Major Treasury Selloffs)
Ok look, it’s anyone’s guess where yields are going to be in 12 months. Rates
5 Recent FX Flash Crashes: Triggers, Amplifiers, & Stabilizers
Earlier today in “Anatomy Of A Flash Crashing Black Swan,” I noted how multi-sigma events (i.e.
Anatomy Of A Flash Crashing Black Swan
Let’s see, in 2015 there was the Swiss franc in January, German bunds in April/May,
15 Things We Learned About Donald Trump From His Interview With The Times
“People don’t want to have other people coming in & destroying their country”…
Mind The GAAP
“I pro-forma’d the f*ck out of those people in there! Voila!”…
This Is What It’s Come To In America
“Fake news: Michigan GOP elector didn’t choose suicide over voting for Trump.”
A “Clean And Hard” Pounding: Complete Recap Of Pound’s Rough Day
As expected, all anyone cares about this morning is cable, which of course plunged overnight on reports that UK PM Theresa May is set to push the envelope on a “hard Brexit” in a speech on Tuesday.
China’s Nasdaq Crashes
The normalization of initial public offerings (IPOs) in China could help raise the financing efficiency
Monday Morning Chart Check (“Clean And Hard” Edition)
Theresa May likes her Brexits “clean and hard.”
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