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Eurozone Sovereign Spread Tightening

After the better than expected Spanish bond auction, eurozone sovereign spreads have come in significantly today.  The widely watched Italian 10-year bond yield fell to 6.63 percent. The return of confidence, in our opinion, is the continuation of the markets’ … Continue reading

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Week in Review

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Year in Review

Wow!  Who would of thunk it.   The Dow the only major global equity index positive for the year.   U.S. Treasuries up 15-20 percent, the dollar index (Dixe) positive;  Brazil and Chinese equities down 20 percent and India down almost 25 … Continue reading

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Global Trend Indicators

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The Haunting (of the Sovereign Bonds)

A consistent theme we have heard over and over this year is that there is no credit risk for a sovereign borrower that has an independent central bank and can resort to debt monetization.   Even Martin Fedstein in his excellent … Continue reading

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Week in Review: Low Volume Ramp

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The Asset Return Tree

The Tree comes to us via one of our favorite international sites, The Drunkeynesian,  in Brazil.   Full of smart economics, finance, and culture.   A site everyone should be monitoring. (click here if chart is not observable)

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Week in Review: Will Santa Keep Stocks on the Naughty List?

In a low volume market with almost no liquidity anything can happen.  In the past few days there have been sellers of the S&P500 at the 50-day moving average, however,  and the market will need a catalyst to bust it … Continue reading

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