Founder, Market Thinker

Mark Tinker

Mark Tinker has over 35 years experience as an investor, market strategist and economist. Having spent more than 20 years as a sell side strategist and being top rated on numerous occasions and surveys he moved to investment management in 2006 to run global equity portfolios in London and subsequently moved to Hong Kong in 2013 to help establish an Investment Management business for a top 20 international asset manager. He first started writing investment weeklies for his employers in 1989, developing a style characterised under the title Market Thinking and has been a regular commentator and presenter on CNBC, Bloomberg and other business channels, where his approach of rationalising market behaviour rather than making short term predictions on high frequency market data provides a welcome balance to his client audience.

Founder

Market Thinker

Making Sense of the Narrative

Macroeconomics

<ul><li>The announcement at the end of April that the UAE (and others) need to access US dollar swap lines has potentially huge implications for the illiquid parts of US$ asset markets.</li><li>If they try and redeem, price discovery could be brutal, but even if they don’t, where is the cornerstone funding going to come from to keep the show on the road?</li><li>The only answer is governments, i.e. taxpayers.</li></ul>

The announcement at the end of April that the UAE (and others) need to access US dollar swap lines has potentially huge implications for the illiquid parts of US$ asset markets.If they try and redeem, price discovery could be brutal, but even if they don’t, where is the cornerstone funding going to come from to keep the show on the road?The only answer is governments, i.e. taxpayers.

Supply Chain Cold War