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| | | Sit back and enjoy the first two days of this week for starting mid-week... financial markets' moods could swing - for the better or the worse - on America. Yes Virginia, this week is all about the US of A. Sure Virginia, there'll be speculations galore ... |
| | | | "Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace..." -- Imagine, John Lennon On their own, they could have been easily ignored by financial markets - and dip ... |
| | | | ... blah on the Fed's exit strategy, its concern over low volatility in the market for stocks, bonds and currencies, end to taper in October, the timing of first rate hike... blah, blah, blah and blah. All these are important of course - and the minutes ... |
| | | | A trading day short of six months into 2014 and yields on 10-year US government benchmark bonds have dropped to 2.54% -- exactly 50 basis points below the 3.04% they were fetching at the birth of 2014. What's interesting Virginia, is that this is happening ... |
| | | | S&P 500 2000 here we come! It won't be long now. Yes Virginia, with the S&P 500 index less than 50 points away (or 2.5%) from the 2,000-point milestone it'll just a few more sleeps and it'll be there - my back of the envelope calculation show that the ... |
| | | | The Australian share market is trading lower despite better-than-expected headline economic growth figures. The March quarter national accounts released on Wednesday showed the economy expanded by a solid 1.1 per cent, lifting the annual rate to 3.5 ... |
| | | | ... mere 0.3% versus the greenback to 1.3627 last night from 1.3672 at the star of the year - the time when the Fed started taper - this close to a major ECB move. It could be that the currency markets are still waiting for the shape of the ECB's policy ... |
| | | | ... at the start of the year and averaged 2.85% in January). And oh, they're now down to October 2013 levels - the time when taper was still speculation. Normally, I would check the yield curve - the difference between yields at the long end and those at ... |
| | | | Yeah baby, let's! Seen the CBOE VIX index lately? Yes, that one - the one financial markets look at the gauge the level of investors' fear. It was pegged at 11.36 at the close of last week's activity - the lowest since the ides (15th) of March 2013. ... |
| | | | With growth like this what's a central banker to do? It might have been too easy for the Fed to justify its steady taper as she goes despite the National Accounts showing that real GDP growth slowed to a snail dragging a very heavy object pace - 0.1% ... |
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