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Market movers today The German Ifo for March is expected to show a further increase as indicated by the rise in both ZEW and PMI index. We look for a rise to 107.4 (consensus 107.3) from 106.8 last...
The euro zone’s bailout fund will discuss on Wednesday the possibility of returning to Greece 1.2 billion euros (881.9 million pounds) in bank recapitalisation funds, euro zone officials...
A negative lead from the US combined with mixed moves in Asia overnight appears to be weighing on European futures ahead of the open. The lack of many significant economic data or news flow...
Wednesday is a relatively slow day for scheduled economic releases, although one update that will receive wide attention in Europe is Ifo’s survey numbers that track the mood in Germany's...
MARKET SNAPSHOT: UP NEXT: TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Across the board I am finding price action to be particularly messy, making momentum trades difficult to indentify. That said below are two charts with...
Any time I write a story about inflation I inevitably get lots of responses about asset price inflation. For some reason this is always presented as a bad thing. But asset price inflation is not...
Note from dshort: The charts in this commentary have been updated to include today's Consumer Price Index news release. Back in 2010 the Fed justified its aggressive monetary policy "to promote a...
Here is a table showing the annualized change in Headline and Core CPI, not seasonally adjusted, for each of the past six months. I've also included each of the eight components of Headline CPI and a...
The Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Commission has released the latest report on Traffic Volume Trends, data through January. "Travel on all roads and streets changed by 4.9% (11.1...
It was a rather soft week in the high-yield credit markets with both the iTraxx Crossover and our Nordic High-Yield Index widening by 14bp (DBM HY index return last week: -1.5%). While most...
Euro back above 109, Crude oil unchanged, Gold up $5.20, Bonds up over a full point.Tomorrow we have Charles Evans from the fed speaking, MBA Mortgage Applications, Durable Goods Orders, EIA...
Summary: Today we look at the latest economic data, drawing an important conclusion — listening to doomsters leads to mistakes. You’ll learn little from them, and can never recover those...
I shorted the S&P Midcap 400 Index yesterday via SPDR MidCap Trust Series I (NYSE:MDY), based on this trendline. So far, so good…….
If a drunk is walking randomly around a lamppost, then the fact that his first step of the day was away from the lamp post is supposed to tell us nothing about the direction of his next step, or his...
Equity REITs, which invest typically in commercial buildings, apartments and other properties, have been a hot asset class over the past 14 months. As a sector, REITs are up about 30% since January of...