Archive for May, 2014
Thursday, May 1st, 2014
Via Mark Chandler at Brown Brothers Harriman:
The US dollar has been unable to sustain even modest upticks. While US Q1 GDP was considerably weaker than expected, investors seemed to look through it, as did the Federal Reserve. There seems to be little doubt that stalling of the economy was a ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2014
Prices of Treasury coupon securities have registered modest declines from levels which prevailed around 900 PM as some of the late day froth of yesterday slipped away. Markets were very quiet and illiquid as much of the world closes for May Day. The yield on the 5 year note climbed ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2014
The Wall Street Journal Money Beat Blog opens up the Month of May with a nice article on the reasons why this year might it might be a particularly appropriate one to follow the sell in May and walk away adage.
Via WSJ:
An overhyped Wall Street idiom–sell in May and go ...
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