Options Weekly: Bears Take Cover: Earnings Hedges and Crash Put-Buying Define a Volatile Week
Defensive options positioning dominated the week of June 29. Put demand surged across financials, technology, and industrials. A handful of names...
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Chart of the Day: Dirt & Rocks Vs. Beaches, Books & Beef
Australia's growth model has really been very simple for more than a decade: sell dirt and rocks (specifically iron and coal) to the rest of the...
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Chart of the Day: Pucker Up!
As predicted several months ago, long-term Ozzie and US government bond yields are now kissing for the first time since the Asia Crisis almost...
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Chart of the Day: The World's Most Vulnerable Consumer
Household debt service ratios (DSRs) are a key metric of macro-economic risk and vulnerability. There is a mounting consenus amongst...
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Chart of the Day: RBA Has a Problem
The day after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)Â chose to dial back its concern over the CPI inflation's increasingly serial target undershoot,...
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