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Margin Call 0002
Margin Call Ken Odeluga, July 5th, 2014 (M2 items only this time.) Goldman Sachs hit with Rare Broker Downgrade The stock of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was downgraded by an analyst at brokerage Sanford C. … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraaj, Banks, BT, Bulgaria, central bank, commodities, Copper, Fund, Fund Manager, Goldman Sachs, IPO, Matomy, Norway, pension fund, regulation, risk, Stanford Marine
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The Bankia Signal
Another Friday, another wait for economic news out of Spain. The results of the second part of an audit of Spain’s banks – started in May and with particular reference to their funding needs – is likely to be released … Continue reading
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Tagged Bank of Spain, Bankia, EUR, euro, Euro zone, markets, risk, sovereign debt, Sovereign Debt Crisis, Spain, stocks, Tesoro, The City, The City of London, The Square Mile, trading
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Real Greek Risk & Fake Cassandras
Meze JPMorgan still warning portentously of Greece’s ‘Ides of March’ As for the rest of us, we’re almost ‘over it’ already, though no one thinks a default will be an easy option JPMorgan has published a portentous note this morning. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Forecast, Euro zone, European Union, Greece, politics, risk, Sovereign Debt Crisis
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What’s Worrying Bernanke?
Fed Chairman Bernanke gave a curious and worrying signal in his appearance yesterday before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. He said, in the Q&A session that followed his testimony, that the recovery was ‘close to faltering.’ This subtly contradicted … Continue reading
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Tagged Banks, bernanke, Congress, crisis, dollar, Economic Policy, economics, federal reserve, government, risk, USD
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Expect short-term tumble, but no long-term USD collapse
What a weekend. I sense that many have been reluctant to get involved in the necessary task of trying to work out what the two almost seismic bits of financial news over the weekend mean. However many did get involved. … Continue reading
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Tagged aud, australian dollar, british pound, CHF, dollar, economics, equities, EUR, euro, foreign exchange, forex, GBP, markets, New Zealand dollar, NZD, risk, s&p, standard & poor's, sterling, stocks, Swiss france, USD
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‘Fed Model’ Creator warns of Breakdown
Meet Dr. Ed Yardeni. Apart from being a most accomplished independent, economist practitioner, with private practice, and corporations and even small nations as clients, he is also known in parts of the financial world as a co-inventor of the Fed … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Forecast, economics, Ed Yardeni, equ, equities, Fed Model, markets, price/earnings ratio, risk, S&P 500, stock, stock markets, stocks
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One Day, CHF and EUR, Will Be €1
With the world beset by all manner of crises right now, the Swiss franc is most likely on the closest to a vertical trajectory as we’ll ever see in our time. (We hope.) And during such times, there there’s often … Continue reading
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Tagged CHF, economics, EUR, Euro zone, European Central Bank, European Union, foreign exchange, forex, risk, SMI, sovereign, sovereign credit spread, sovereign debt, Sovereign Debt Crisis, stock markets, stocks, Swiss Market Index, Switzerland
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Forget ‘Europhoria’, Look at EUR/GBP
Forget for a moment the possibility that today’s ‘Europhoria’ doesn’t really make a great deal of sense, when looked at in the round. Something quite detailed about the EUR/GBP cross was mentioned which seems to have some fundamental and technical … Continue reading
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Tagged cds, credit default swaps, EUR, Europe, foreign exchange, forex, GBP, risk, sovereign, sovereign credit spread, sovereign debt, spreads, trading
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Aussie + Kiwi could turn out to be a topspinner
#AUD and #NZD eyed with central bank announcements looming: #RBA overnight, #RBNZ Thu. ‘On hold’ is expected in both. But check correlation of AUD/NZD and AUD-NZD 2yr swap rate differential – forex may have some catching-up to do. Factors at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Asia Pacific, aud, central bank, foreign exchange, forex, macroeconomics, risk, USD
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Where is European ‘Cash’ Hiding?
Risk. Without another full-blown financial crisis, could most parts of the financial markets be any riskier right now? Hence the perennial search for assets to add which serve to reduce risk. You might like to take a look at this … Continue reading
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Tagged CHF, EUR, euro, foreign exchange, forex, markets, peripheral, peripheral euro zone, risk, sovereign, sovereign debt, trading, USD
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