Archive for April, 2015
Monday, April 20th, 2015
Via the good folks at Bloomberg:
WHAT TO WATCH:
* (All times New York)
* Economic Data
* 8:30am: Chicago Fed Nat Activity Index, March, est. 0.1
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* Central Banks
* 10:05am: Bank of Canada’s Poloz speaks in New York
* 12:00pm: Reserve Bank of Australia’s ...
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Monday, April 20th, 2015
Via Marc Chandler at Brown Brothers Harriman:
Drivers for the Week Ahead
- The US dollar's strong advance ended a month ago, yet we caution against getting too bearish the US dollar
- The decline in oil prices, interest rates, and the euro was widely understood to give the regional economy better traction
- ...
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Sunday, April 19th, 2015
Via the WSJ:
By Carolyn Cui
April 19, 2015 3:58 p.m. ET
2 COMMENTS
Emerging-market bonds are being submerged in investors’ worries.
Facing rising corporate defaults from Brazil to China to Ukraine, some portfolio managers are selling debt issued by emerging-market companies.
Since 2009, the market for emerging-market corporate bonds denominated in dollars and other hard ...
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Sunday, April 19th, 2015
The FT reports that this might be a rough week for equities as several large mutinationals report Q1 profits this week and the strong dollar should trim profits for the group.
Via the FT:
Dollar’s rise casts shadow on US earnings
By Nicole Bullock in New York and Eric Platt and Roger Blitz ...
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Sunday, April 19th, 2015
The WSJ reports that Jon Corzine whose career collapsed with the bankruptcy of MF Global several years ago is contemplating entering the hedge fund business. I guess the more spectacularly one flames out the higher the probability that one can collect money for a new venture. John Merriweather who guided ...
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Sunday, April 19th, 2015
Via the WSJ:
By William Kazer
Updated April 19, 2015 6:27 a.m. ET
0 COMMENTS
BEIJING—China’s central bank cut the reserve requirement on bank deposits in a move to let banks lend more of their funds to struggling companies as the economy slows.
The People’s Bank of China said on Sunday it was cutting the ...
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Sunday, April 19th, 2015
Via Bloomberg:
-- Bloomberg Bullet Pts and story --
*PBOC GOVERNOR ZHOU XIAOCHUAN SPEAKS IN INTERVIEW IN WASHINGTON
*CHINA HAS EASING ROOM, WON'T NECESSARILY USE IT: PBOC'S ZHOU
*CHINA HAS MORE ROOM FOR EASING THAN OTHER NATIONS: PBOC'S ZHOU
*CHINA HAS EASING ROOM IN RESERVE RATIO, INTEREST RATES: ZHOU
*CHINA NEEDS TO ADJUST MONETARY POLICY CAREFULLY: ...
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Saturday, April 18th, 2015
Via Cheng Chen of TDSecurities:
Treasury market net shorts saw a substantial decrease in the latest week, declining to $9.2B from $20.7B the week before.
The biggest changes in positioning occurred in the 5yr and 10yr sectors with longs in both maturities rising substantially as shorts remained steady. Net longs in both ...
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Saturday, April 18th, 2015
Via Merrill Lynch Research:
Companies in the rate hiking cycle. Our big picture theme is that there are important consequences (intended and unintended) of six years of extreme US monetary policy easing that included QE and ZIRP. Then as we move into the rate hiking cycle these consequences will be unwound. ...
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Saturday, April 18th, 2015
Via Barron's:
Up and Down Wall Street
Low Interest Rates: A Self-Defeating Strategy
Instead of encouraging spending and boosting the economy, low rates can lead people to squirrel more money away to meet their retirement or other goals.
By
Randall W. Forsyth
April 17, 2015 10:14 p.m. ET
When I think back on all the crap I ...
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