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Week in Review: Momentum To Be Tested

Posted on April 10, 2011 by macromon

This week will be another key test for the markets.   The U.S. equity indices are right up against their year highs and there seems no let up in the momentum in crude and other commodity prices.  This is surprising given … Continue reading →

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Week in Review

Posted on February 21, 2011 by macromon

As we suspected, emerging equities bounced nicely last week with Brazil and Hong Kong leading the major indices, both up over 3 percent.   Developed equity markets continued to move higher with France now up close to 10 percent for the … Continue reading →

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The Global Pain of Rising Food Prices

Posted on February 15, 2011 by macromon

We found some excellent data from a March 2010 USDA report on cross-country food expenditures and to no surprise lower income countries are getting slammed by the recent price spike.  The table is fairly self-explanatory showing the proportion of expenditures … Continue reading →

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Week in Review: 17.76% by July 4th?

Posted on February 13, 2011 by macromon

Most of the week’s focus was on Egypt and managing risk around China’s tightening cycle as Asia returned from the holiday.   Developed equities continued their relentless rally with the Russell 2000 increasing 2.75 percent.   The Hang Seng and KOSPI got … Continue reading →

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Week in Review: Bonds Crack and EU to Crack Specs

Posted on February 7, 2011 by macromon

Nice bounce back last week for equities x/emerging markets.  The Russell and Nasdaq were up 3 percent with the S&P500 and Dow increasing over 2 percent.  France continued its run and is now up almost 6 ½ percent for the … Continue reading →

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Week in Review: Egypt Rocked, Iran Next?

Posted on January 30, 2011 by macromon

We don’t have much to say about this week’s performance other than the main equity indices in the U.S. and some in Europe made post crisis new highs before being hit on the political plague coming out of Egypt.   Interesting … Continue reading →

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Bulls Eat, Bears Eat, and Pigs Go Limit Up!

Posted on January 27, 2011 by macromon

The hits just keep on coming in the foods.  Futures Magazine reports, Hogs: April futures rallied limit-up on Wednesday. Traders are noting South Korean buyers will cram orders in quickly to get product in under the 60,000 tonne no-tariff limit … Continue reading →

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Natural Gas, The “Widow Maker”

Posted on January 25, 2011 by macromon

Check out the long-term chart of natural gas from Managed Futures Today and you can see why they call nattie the “widow maker.”    Long periods without a trend will grind your capital into hamburger and drive you to drink.    … Continue reading →

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The Week in Review: BRICs to FRICs?

Posted on January 22, 2011 by macromon

Vive la France! Who would of “thunk” it? The French CAC outperforming India by 13 percent in the first three weeks of the year? Will Goldie’s Jim O’Neill now replace Brazil with France in the BRIC countries and rename the … Continue reading →

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Shanghai Breaks 200-day, Commodites Next to Roll?

Posted on January 17, 2011 by macromon

During the 1990’s when the emerging markets were still emerging a friend of ours wrote a research report on pre-restructured busted Russian debt titled, No Rush to Buy, No Russians Buying.  The point was the Russians knew the prospects for … Continue reading →

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