I want to wish every one who celebrates Christmas a very joyous season, and, most importantly I want to wish all my readers a year of good health and peace. The meaning of Christmas, Hanukkah and the spirit of the season should resonate with us everyday of the year. As I have told my children over the years about their wedding day: It is the least important day for it is the next day that matters most as does every day that follows. May we experience the meaning of the season each and every day of the coming year. I was always amazed that wars would halt for a Christmas truce but begin hostilities 12 days later. If you could stop for 12 days why not 12 months?
Posts Tagged ‘currencies’
Notes From Underground: Ghosts (Past, Present and Future)
December 21, 2017Notes From Underground: In An Algo-Driven World Headlines Matter
December 3, 2017Friday: Dateline. INACCURATE NEWS.
There is GOLD to be found in the digital world where headlines can move financial markets faster than your eyes can blink or your brain can separate fact from fiction. ABC investigative journalist Brian Ross published a report that said President Trump asked Michael Flynn to reach out to Russia during the campaign. The network was forced to correct the story, clarifying that the request was carried out during the transition period, and suspended Ross. President Trump tweeted that investors harmed by ABC’s action should sue for damages. Trump may actually have a legitimate opinion but I believe the President’s Tweets carry the same litmus test.
Notes From Underground: The Fed Meets Market Expectations … So How Was It Unanimous?
December 16, 2015In the Beatles Album “Let It Be” John Lennon introduces the phrase, “Doris Gets Her Oats.” It’s supposedly just typical Lennon gibberish. But in a nod to the Beatles, Janet Yellen got her oats and the Fed did not LET IT BE. The “oats” that Janet got was that the FED increased its interest on excess reserves (IOER) to 50 basis points and overnight reverse repo (O/N RRP) rate to 25 basis points in order to pull the fed funds into the corridor. The most astounding outcome was that FOMC vote was unanimous, 10-0. With the recent über-dovish comments from Fed Governors Brainard and Tarullo, how could they have voted with the Fed Chair? Some commentators remarked that the “historic” occasion of Yellen presiding over the first Fed hike in almost nine years needed a unanimous vote. Question: What did Chair Yellen have to promise the über-doves in order to garner their votes and suffer the wrath of the Shadow Fed Chairman, Larry Summers? This will be an important question going forward for it may mean that Yellen may have compromised herself to lower for longer.
Notes From Underground: The markets will labor with the unemployment report
January 6, 2011Let me state out again as to why the FOREX markets are going to be a difficult investment in 2011. The emerging markets and commodity-based currencies have been the repositories of global capital seeking to take advantage of the Chinese and India growth phenomena without having to actually invest in the countries themselves. If you like China, buy the Australian equity or currency as it provides a proxy on Beijing’s growth policies: A classic case of providing picks and shovels rather than mining yourself.