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Powell confuses the price with the value of something… ????
The chart is clear and if you consider that there is no inflation, I can't argue more. Powell said : “The housing sector has more than fully recovered from the downturn,” “a one-time shift in demand that we think will get satisfied, also that will call forth...
Italy calls on ‘Super Mario’ as political crisis deepens… And He accepts this role!!!MIB index +2.7%… No comment
Only History will judge if Mario Draghi has been superb or not. From my humble point of view, the former Goldman boy just initiated the biggest bubble in Finance on Earth and "japanified" the Eurozone... He never solved any problems, he just postponed them to the next...
Virus Controls Undercut China’s Holidays, Economic Recovery… Not good for 2021 forecasts
The first official data for January showed economic activity expanded at a much slower pace compared to December, with the services sector markedly weaker. The manufacturing purchasing managers’ index fell to 51.3, while the non-manufacturing gauge dropped to 52.4...
The Covid-19 Pandemic Has Added $19.5 Trillion to Global Debt… Let’s economists explain this “good news” to the future generation…
This is one of the most important charts... Geopolitical and Social tensions are connected to this chart, even if economists are telling us that the amounts of debts are not important for the future... Guess what... My two sons are not agree...
Moderate U.S. Republican senators urge Biden to compromise on COVID-19 plan… But the Covid has not the same timeframe…
A group of 10 moderate Republican U.S. senators urged Democratic President Joe Biden on Sunday to reconsider his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, saying they wanted a meeting to discuss a compromise that they said could win swift bipartisan support... Anyway,...
A Reddit Army Descends on Hedge Funds Chained by Risk Models : VaR shock is coming?
According to Morgan Stanley’s prime brokerage, the drop in hedge funds’ exposure last Wednesday was historic, according to a rule of thumb for a normal distribution of statistical data. At 11 standard deviations away from the mean in data going back to 2010, this...
Johnson & Johnson vaccine shows 66% efficacy for moderate and severe Covid
The vaccine was 57 per cent effective in South Africa, where the 501.v2 variant first emerged, compared with 72 per cent in the US and 66 per cent in Latin America. That's not great even if countries need a bigger number of vaccine producers. Moderna is reducing its...
Robinhood Raises $1 Billion in Dash for Cash… The Domino Effect is Starting?
Today is the last of the month and of course, some flows could induce noises. Anyway, 4 banks sent $1bn of cash to Robinhood. The trading platform will resume trading on the most shorted stocks, increasing pain trades to the Hedge Fund community and therefore on...
Our Global Macro Insight warned you one year ago! Anniversary of our Added Value
Lots of people are talking, posting, and tweeting, but sometimes, we need to look into the mirror what we wrote. The Global Macro Insight is only available via subscription for good reasons, and the main one is added value. I just listed what your scribe wrote into...
Germany mulls cutting international air traffic ‘to almost zero’
Germany is considering almost completely halting flights into the country to slow the spread of more infectious strains of the coronavirus, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Tuesday (Jan 26)... I am still short Europe!
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