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Category: Other Guys

Economic and and financial news and analysis from respected observers. Because I publish it, doesn’t mean I agree with it.

Don’t Forget Europe

According to Eurostat last week, Europe’s win streak reached 27 quarters in Q4 2019. If you count winning solely by the sign in front of quarterly GDP changes, then Mario Draghi handed off to Christine Lagarde an expansion just one quarter shy of seven years. It’s supposed to be impressive. Lagarde, however, begins her tenure […]

Bring The (PMI) Noise

The ISM’s Manufacturing PMI rebounded sharply in January 2020, according to preliminary assessments. December’s figure was revised upward to 47.8 from 47.2, which had been a decade low, and that’s only where it began. The first estimate for the twenties exploded out of contraction, or what’s associated with the idea, to reach 50.8. It was […]

Addicts

Containment indeed. The PBOC went into full intervention mode last night trying to minimize the market damage that had been building in futures for the week that Chinese markets were closed. Rate […]