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Dow Tests 200-day Moving Average

The Dow Jones Industrials briefly traded below its 200-day and managed to bounce into the close.  The index is in trouble as it has penetrated the 61.8 retracement level of the April 11 – July 17 move.  The last line … Continue reading

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How Vladimir Putin Rose, and Could Fall – StratFor

Stratfor’s Editor-in-Chief David Judson and Founder George Friedman discuss how Putin’s handling of the Ukrainian crisis is influenced by recent Russian history and could lead to his downfall. For more analysis, visit: http://www.Stratfor.com (click here if video is not observable) … Continue reading

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Greece three years on – FT

Calm has returned to Greece after the anti-austerity riots three years ago. The economy is expected to grow this year for the first time since 2007. Ralph Atkins, capital markets editor, analyses the country’s progress and the work still to … Continue reading

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Weekend Lecture: Capital in the Twenty-First Century – LSE

To view slides+audio please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXYIY… To download slides please see: http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/vid… Speaker(s): Professor Thomas Piketty Chair: Professor Tim Besley Recorded on 16 June 2014 in Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street. What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and … Continue reading

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Volatility, markets and monetary policy – FT

Volatility, instability and monetary policy. Cardiff Garcia and Tracy Alloway discuss why the calm in markets is making investors and central banks so nervous — and whether they should do anything about it. For more video content from the Financial … Continue reading

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Martin Wolf on Mexico – FT

President Enrique Peña Nieto’s reformist makeover of Mexico has wowed markets and foreign investors, if not Mexicans. Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, talks to the FT’s John Paul Rathbone about the country’s prospects. For more video … Continue reading

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Argentina Sovereign Debt – FT

The FT’s Robin Wigglesworth and Joseph Cotterill discuss Argentina’s decision to pay back its debt to the Paris Club of creditors. Argentina lost access to capital markets after its $100bn sovereign default 13 years ago. For more video content from … Continue reading

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Quote of the Day

“…fear was a sign you were awake and intelligent.  Anyone who wasn’t scared had no idea how close we were to the abyss.   I was scared, too.” –  Tim Geithner,  Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises

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Daily Risk Monitor – May 29

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