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Macro Digest: ECB hit MASSIVE PANIC button - what's next...

Draghi is failing the Feyman test of knowledge/facts: Not only is ECB hitting panic button but risk remains to the downside!!! See this morning PRE-ECB note from me. Our overall macro path from here is: Now the Global Policy Panic theme I…
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Macro Digest : Bond alert & probably single most important chart this year

"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair" – Sam Ewing   Doing some research for Bloomberg guest hosting in London on Thursday morning and came across this…
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Brexit : Early comment...

The polls and the bookies got it wrong again – the move overnight has been made bigger by the “party” the risk on market had yesterday….I wrote my “expected” reaction earlier this week:   How a Brexit would play out: Jakobsen   My…
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Macro Digest : Forget politics new trends are in place ...

  European leading growth is turning significant down…. But…versus “expected” it looks better? …. Makes no sense…. Don’t  forget this happens post Draghi – ECB’s  Bazooka …and I find it might interesting…
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Fed meeting - focus point and data...

Tonight FOMC is another ”must see” event as the Fed is caught long and wrong its own three to four hikes in 2016 – the employment data on headlines basis continues to support higher inflation through wages but a few “stones” has entered…
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Happy New Year - 2015 was an amazing macro year, 2016 will be even more exciting...

“May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!”  ― Aleister Crowley, Moonchild   2015 was  an exciting macro year,…
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Toute une année de bourse résumée en trois séances hallucinogènes

Je crois qu’il n’y aucune raison de tergiverser pendant 4 pages sur ce qui s’est passé hier sur les marchés. Mercredi soir on a appris que la FED serait patiente avant de monter les taux et les intervenants ont « adoré » la formule.…