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Saturday, July 27

27th Jul - Weekender: Linkfest




27th Jul - Special: SAC and Yellen vs. Summers



27th Jul - Weekender: Weekly Support



Here are the links to the weekly roundups, reviews and also previews of the beginning week. Last week's 'Support' here.

Friday, July 26

26th Jul - US Open



26th Jul - Weekender: Best of the Week



The best articles from the ending week. Last week’s ‘best’ here. This blog turned two years old last week. 

Overall, a dull week. Europe showed terrible monetary data, while optimism is on the rise according to Markit PMI.  The most important development has been the sudden uncertainty over who gets nominated as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. Up next: the usual weekender-posts, plus link collections on Summers vs. Yellen-debate and the SAC.

26th Jul - EU Open



Tuesday, July 23

23rd Jul - US Close



23rd Jul - US Open



23rd Jul - Credit Guest: Every Silver Lining...

Here's this week's guest post from Macronomics - the first stop for getting a deeper view.

23rd Jul - EU Open: Confidence, my friend


Europe’s consumer and business confidence is published today. July PMIs out on Wednesday, German IFO on Thursday.

Monday, July 22

22nd Jul - US Close



22nd Jul - US Open



Quote of the Day: European banks need at least €350bn to €400bn of new capital. Our top-down and bottom-up work combined with OECD estimates point to a material deficit, two-thirds of which is in the Eurozone. The estimates ignore upside risk from adopting depositor preference. Options to plug the deficit include contingent capital – not CoCos (which do not work, in our view), but forms of standby capital. – Berenberg:  

22nd Jul - EU Open: Asia, G20 chewn, PMI week



The richest 200 people have about $2.7 trillion, which is more than the poorest 3.5 billion people, who have only $2.2 trillion combined.

Saturday, July 20

20th Jul - Weekender: Off-Topic & Finnish



20th Jul - Weekender: Markets, Regulation, Economics




20th Jul - Weekender: Weekly Support



Here are the links to the weekly roundups, reviews and also previews of the beginning week. Last week's 'Support' here.

20th Jul - Weekender: The World



20th July - MoreLiver's is two years old



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Friday, July 19

19th Jul - Weekender: Best of the Week



The best articles from the ending week. Last week’s ‘best’ here.

This was supposed to be a relatively interesting week, but not much happened after all. China reported relatively low GDP numbers, US macro releases were also relatively weak, Federal Reserve's Bernanke gave a testimony but provided no new clues. Europe released montly current account balances, and it looks like that for a long, long time, countries excluding Germany are also making positive balances. To what extent this is just a reflection of the weak import demand, remains to be seen.

19th Jul - US Open



19th Jul - EU Open



Wednesday, July 17

17th Jul - US Close: Ben's testimony nothing new



17th Jul - US Open: Ben's Statement out, testimony ahead




17th Jul - EU Open: Ben's testimony today



Funny – just as the IMF has stated that the Commission is not fact-based, highly political, cannot admit its policy errors and that the IMF will not participate in lousy, stupid, untenable bailouts in the future, the Commission is quick to state that the IMF should leave the Troika. The Commission sounds like the girls I used to go out with – quick to end a relationship when they sense that the other is about to leave.

Of course, the Reding’s argument of lack of democratic oversight is ridiculous – the Commission is not answerable to anyone in practice. Her suggestion would only lead to a further increase of Brussels’ powers, and more policy errors based on the narrow interest and political bickering.

Meanwhile, there have been comments that the Troika should really be abolished – and the IMF should take the whole Europe under its program.

Sunday, July 14

14th Jul - Credit Guest: Simpson's Paradox



Macronomics gets its revenge on the jedi- sorry, credit markets, with this guest post:

14th Jul - Weekender: Linkfest



Huge linkfest - plenty of Finnish links this weekend.

14th Jul - Weekender: The World




Saturday, July 13

13th Jul - Weekender: Weekly Support



Here are the links to the weekly roundups, reviews and also previews of the beginning week. Last week's 'Support' here. Because of the holiday period, many desks are not publishing at the moment. Sorry about the lack of material.

Friday, July 12

12th Jul - Weekender: Best of the Week



The best articles from the ending week. Last week’s ‘best’ here.

The main event of the week was the release of the minutes from the previous Federal Reserve’s FOMC meeting, which showed that “tapering” – slowing down and eventually ending the asset purchases – is to remain conditional on the economy. Bernanke’s press Q&A confirmed the message. This led to huge moves in the US-dollar, a new high in stock markets and lower interest rates.

The second development is the muddle-through toward a banking union in Europe, but the obstacles seem surmountable.

The third development is signs of political discontent in many debtor (Spain, Greece, Portugal, Italy), and to a lesser extent in creditor countries as well, as they start to realize that there will be losses. This counters the attempts to federalization.

Everyone seems to be waiting for the German elections, and expects some sort of serious solution attempt, perhaps as early as December. If no serious attempts are made after the elections, the calm in Europe will be quickly over.

12th Jul - US Open



12th Jul - EU Open: China projections down



Wednesday, July 10

Monday, July 8

8th Jul - US Open: European compromises



8th Jul - EU Open: EURUSD signs of bottoming?




Daily chart - near range's bottom. Red vertical lines are ECB press Q&A days




Sunday, July 7

7th Jul - Credit Guest: The Dunning-Kruger effect


For your pleasure, this week's guest post from Macronomics.

Saturday, July 6

6th Jul - Weekender: Linkfest



In this week's edition the usual Europe with focus on the PIIGS, Vatican's latest scandal, Marc Rich is dead, some interesting off-topic articles and couple of Finnish-language links.

6th Jul - Weekender: Weekly Support



Here are the links to the weekly roundups, reviews and also previews of the beginning week. Last week's 'Support' here. Because of the European holiday period, many desks are not publishing at the moment. Sorry about the lack of material.

Friday, July 5

5th July - Special: US June Employment Report



5th Jul - US Open



5th Jul - Weekender: Best of the Week



The best articles from the ending week. Last week’s ‘best’ here.

The main news of the week were the ECB’s and BoE’s move towards forward guidance – in case of the ECB, it is already done, and BoE is expected to introduce such policies in August. The EURUSD was hit hard, while asset markets loved it.

In Europe, Portugal is in a tight spot, but with the usual recipe of the Troika turning a blind eye and some political posturing, things will probably continue as they were, at least until the German elections are over.

5th Jul - EU Open: Payroll day, stunned by CBs



Thursday, July 4

4th July - US Close: BoE and ECB go guiding



Heavy central bank day - both the Bank of England and the European Central Bank provided dovish surprises and introduced forward guidance-measures or promises. ECB promised to keep rates for "a long time" - hardly news, but still an improvement over the previous "we do not pre-commit". BoE indicated that it could introduce guidance perhaps as early as in August.


Anchor Grills Draghi on Forward GuidanceYoutube

4th July - Independence Day: Holidays!


Next update 5-July Friday European morning.

4th Jul - EU Open



Tuesday, July 2

2nd Jul - US Close: Portugal & Greece



Blue horseshoe HATES Portugal and Greece.

2nd Jul - US Open



2nd Jul - EU Open - Quiet day ahead of CB's



Nothing on calendar, focus shifting to Thursday's central bank meetings and Friday's payrolls.

Monday, July 1