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Category Archives: Equities
The Oscar Trade: Long Berkshire Hathaway On Anne’s Oscar
Let’s face it folks global markets have turned into the Truman Show. In other words, much, if not, everything is pretty much fake. An artificial housing recovery based on repressed interest rates and the effective nationalism of the mortgage market … Continue reading
Posted in Equities
Tagged Algorithmic Trading Strategies, Anne Hathaway, Berkshire Hathaway
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Correction Time? Now or Never…
The S&P500 had its worst daily decline for the year. The VIX spiked over 19 percent, its biggest 1-day increase in 2013. The dollar index closed at its highest level since November 16th, which was the day the S&P500 bottomed … Continue reading
Posted in Commodities, Dollar, Equities, Gold
Tagged Correction, dollar, Gold, S&P500, Stock Market, VIX
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Beggar Thy Neighbor’s Stock Market
Interesting chart which we suspected and all knew that, thus far, the 2013 macro equity trade x/ U.S. has been to be long those markets where the home currency is weakening against the dollar. The red regression line illustrates this … Continue reading
Posted in Equities, Monetary Policy
Tagged All Ordinaries, Australian Dollar, Bovespa, Brazilian Real, Currency, Stock Market Returns
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Chart of the Day: Mutual Fund Holdings
Informative chart in today’s WSJ on household mutual fund holdings. (click here if chart is not observable)
Daily Interest Rate Monitor – January 23
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Posted in Equities, Euro, Interest Rates
Tagged Bunds, Gilts, JGBs, Sovereign Yields, Stock Indices
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BIDzilla!
This is what happens when traders try and game a correction of overbought conditions and there are no real sellers. BIDzilla as in Godzilla! Here’s what we said after the first trading day of the new year: The two big … Continue reading
Global Risk Indicator Species: Hang Seng and Aussie/$
Messing around with the charts while watching the game and came across this. The Hang Seng and Aussie/$ are important — sometimes leading and sometimes confirming – risk indicators that should be monitored. We have written about both. See here … Continue reading
Posted in Equities, Uncategorized
Tagged Australian Dollar, Correlation, Hang seng, Shanghai Composite
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Who Owns the U.S. Equity Market?
Here’s an update and upgrade to our mid-2011 post. Lots of noise and imperfections in the Fed’s Flow of Funds data but sure beats the alternative – nothing. The biggest caveat, in our opinion, is the data include holdings of … Continue reading
Posted in Equities
Tagged Allocation, ETFs, Hedge Funds, Pension funds, U.S. Stock Market
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Nice Start…To the Moon, Alice!
Nice bubblicious start to the New Year! The third best, in fact, for the S&P500 since 1991. The two big macro swans – the Eurozone crisis and fear of China’s hard landing — which caused much of the volatility … Continue reading
Posted in Equities, Technical Analysis
Tagged DAX, First Day of Trading, Hang seng, New Year, S&P500
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Repressed Fear
This nice chart comes to us from the Leuthold Group via Bloomberg. It illustrates that market fear or risk aversion is at its lowest levels since the 1980’s! Yikes! The Leuthold Group constructs their Risk Aversion Index (RAI) with a … Continue reading
Posted in Equities, Fiscal Cliff Monitor, Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy
Tagged Leuthold Group, Risk Aversion
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Global Macro Monitor 