As we come to the end of 2012 we find that, like a movie, the stresses and strains, the thrills and spills and loose ends are all being tidi...
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THE CLIFF - A Pantomime
A friend of Team Macro Man has offered us his script for a seasonal dramatic romp. Though you may think it is remarkably familiar, we now p...
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Cliff Up. The Broker Call
It's a quiet Friday afternoon and as we know when there is nothing else to yell about "The Cliff" takes center stage. So TMM a...
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Knights That Go Yen
Every bar in every town in every wild remote unforgiving desolate landscape has one. No matter how ghostly the neighbourhood, how empty the ...
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A Thanksgiving Quiz
1. Thanksgiving is a) A time to remember and give thanks for coming through dark times. b) A time for family. c) A time to make wide pr...
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Bingo Calls
We have felt like involuntary bungee jumpers over the last week, praying for the cord to tighten before we hit the concrete. This week sees ...
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Business Bicycle.
Our last post saw this as part of an anonymous comment - "I am commenting for the first time to just point out that it feels like the ...
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Decoding the Soundbites
Decoding the soundbites... GREECE - EU-IMF FEUD ERUPTS OVER GREEK DEBT Market response: If even the EU and IMF cant agree on a package what...
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Moral Petards
A US partial holiday today is being used as an excuse for quiet markets so micro-numbers are of little interest today. But the past week has...
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Holiday Poem. Phone frustrations.
Phone Frustrations I just wrote A poem for you. Took some time. A good one too. Clever words Describing dealing. Lilts that jangled, ...
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Policy Uncertainty Falls.
This afternoon's dramatic moves lower in equities and oil have been pinned on Romney trades being unwound, but we do get the feeling th...
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Hollande's Regrets
Today is box-ticking day in the US, but we really haven't got anything to add to the debate. Instead we are more interested in the data...
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Investors and the Fiscal Cliff
Team Macro Man can't believe that the US administration will take the economy over the fiscal cliff. However we can see some investors g...
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I'm a CTA... Get Me Out of Here!
One of the elephants in TMM's room has been the behaviour of the markets in the US morning. Strange things have been afoot that have ha...
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Calculated Stupidity
Yesterday TMM were tripped into thinking about the complexity of algorithms and their place in this world against old fashioned humanness. ...
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Introspection Day
Today the financial blogosphere has lit itself up with some introspective self-illumination as to what is happening within the structure of ...
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False Dawn Or False Dusk
Much like watching animals in a zoo, particularly dangerous ones, rangey markets create excitement the closer they get to their boundaries. ...
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Buying the wrong tails
The Chinese data overnight isn't a game changer, but supports the increasing sense seen both in data elsewhere and in prices that China ...
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All Talk and Missing the Action
We should do that more often. When we want markets to move we should write about them being dead because it's all a bit interesting agai...
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