Monday Macro – beyond 100 days: making sense of volatile markets as we head towards the summer
As I write this, markets are in a buoyant mood, with stocks moving ahead following news of another 90-day (what’s it with 90 days?) pause in the US...
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Monday Macro – Pulling together some big-picture thoughts
This week's big story is obviously President Trump's inauguration and the likely blizzard of policy announcements. What he and his team have in...
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Monday Macro: Happy New Year
The table below, in the form of a heat map, looks at returns (sorted by 2024 YTD returns) for a bunch of major indices and asset classes.
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Monday Macro: Bumper Crystal Ball Time, Plus the US Equity Bulls Are Still Rampaging
Over the last week, the FTSE ALL World equities index stalled slightly, losing 0.8% in value, with the FTSE ALL Share index losing a tad more, down...
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Monday Macro: Thoughts on the Next 15 Months
What matters for markets globally is what happens in the US, and what matters in the US is what the US Federal Reserve is thinking.
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