Fed & BoJ To Troll Markets This Week There's never been a central bank more thuggish than the Fed. First, it delayed hiking rates by more than 11 months, only doing so once in December by a tiny 25bp. Remember the vicious cycle of "promising to ...

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Crude prices fall sharply after an unexpected build of API inventory across the board. All components largely missed expectations of a modest draw and surprised to the upside, and is a big and abrupt flip from the last few weeks of draws. Specially ...

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The highly awaited June FOMC statement, interest rate decision, and press conference where Chair Yellen is now less than 24 hours away. As of last check, Fed Funds futures are implying a 0% probability that tomorrow's meeting concludes with rate ...

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[Zoom in to see ultra large image] We've compiled pretty much the most comprehensive illustration on the UK Brexit opinion polls across the English country. There are many pollsters involved in garnering viewpoints on Brexit so it bears prudence to ...

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Technical analysis of the S&P 500 index by BofAML: The S&P 500 tested resistance at the November and May 2015 peaks of 2116-2135 last week but closed near the week’s lows to form a bearish reversal (shooting star) on the weekly candle chart. This ...

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Last week we documented something of change with regards to the so-called "smart money" that is the group comprised of hedge funds, institutional clients, and private clients. Said change was the first weekly net purchase of U.S. stocks by "smart ...

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U.S. retail sales rose +0.5% in May, beating expectations of +0.3%. Annualized, retail sales grew 2.5%. While this is anything far from establishing escape velocity from what has clearly been stagnation in growth, retails sales still remain positive ...

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European money markets are starting to crack once again with counter party risk back at 2012 European Sovereign Debt Crisis highs despite looser euro financial conditions heralded by the ECB all-out monetary policy measures. Seen here, the Libor-OIS ...

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The Brexit fever has gotten so ridiculous that almost every market is swinging around it. Forget this Wednesday's FOMC statement and rate decision. The markets have decided that they wish to take cues on the leave-stay game that is the UK referendum ...

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Who are the instigators of war and violence? Global arms trade data says Saudi Arabia (largest arms importer, more than twice that of the first runner up India), and the U.S. (largest arms exporter, almost triple that of the first runner up ...

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All you need to know about U.S. coal production in one chart... The end might be near. The prehistoric fuel is not only dirty, but is getting sidelined for better forms of energy such as natural gas and renewables. As environmental regulation catchy ...

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Making money in the financial markets has never been harder, ever. Thanks to central banks and their degeneracy... Soc Gen sums it up, needing no additional comment: "The following chart plots the excess return from investing 100,000 US dollars for ...

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Is this outright insider trading? Early Monday, #Microsoft announced a $26.2bn full cash takeover of #LinkedIn at a premium of 50% to where #LKND closed on Friday. Of course this meant that LinkedIn shares would spike dramatically at the open, and ...

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By now, everyone and their pet rabbit should be familiar with "Brexit", a term coined to signify the UK leaving the EU, thereby severing most trade, economic, and other significant ties with the continental bloc. And as more and more chatter, ...

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More weakness in the Chinese yuan as both onshore (USDCNY) and offshore (USDCNY) yuan markets have weakened against the greenback. Nothing surprising here as the markets have cursed the USD with abnormally high volatility (see the bigger than ...

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Japan is back at it again with more extremes. The Nikkei 225 (Japanese stocks) today fell more than 3%, largely catching up to the relative strength in the yen for much of last week, as stocks levitated and diverged away from both cash and yields ...

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An ugly way to start off what is going to be an immensely busy trading week. We have the June FOMC as the key event risk this week, and a slew of macro data releases. Not to mention the increasingly volatile events of the UK referendum will ...

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Hope everyone had a great weekend! The new trading week is beginning soon - are you ready yet? Cheers!

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Did You Just Short Oil At The Bottom? (March 10 2016) Old but gold news! We hope you didn't. Because WTI and Brent are up some 42% and 48% from their January lows, respectively. We can only imagine the multitudes of traders shorting crude all the ...

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