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Co-ordination By Central Banks Just A Quick Fix
via Flickr”]Image by UggBoy♥UggGirl [ PHOTO // WORLD // TRAVEL The announcement of co-ordinated action by central banks in the UK, the US, the Euro Zone, Canada, Switzerland and Japan to pour...
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So Long SAAB, This Time It Is Over
Image via Wikipedia It is a sad day in the automotive world as once great and iconic SAAB Automobile filed for bankruptcy. This brings the troubled Swedish carmaker to the point of no return as it was...
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A Need To Kick On From Davos
Image by AFP/Getty Images via @daylife The World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, Klosters runs from January 25th – 29th. Looking across the schedule one can see many fascinating topics for...
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If Only Greece Would Unbind Prometheus From The Euro
Image via Wikipedia Prometheus (as in the beautiful statue at Rockefeller Centre) was a champion of mankind who managed to steal fire from Zeus and gave the gift to mortal man. To punish him Zeus...
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Bonds, Bailouts & Barber -Surgeon’s
Image via Wikipedia In the much loved musical “Man of La Mancha”, Don Quixote and his companion/assistant Sancho Panza encounter a Barber-Surgeon, who boasts of his abilities to not only give a good...
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The ISDA Of March
Image via Wikipedia Looking at the results of the 2nd ECB 3 year LTRO programme one can note 2 distinct points of interest. The forecast range of capital requirement was from EUR200Bn to EUR1Tn. So...
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Sony’s Blues Caused By Blu-ray
Image via CrunchBase In the world of consumer electronics, Sony was once, the name on the must have products. Not every idea was a winner… who remembers the 1980’s bitter battle between Sony’s Betamax...
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Madrid’s Mighty Monetary Mess
What a stunning improvement to the spread of Italian and Spanish yields over Germany! In the past week the movement of the 10 year yields and spreads over the German benchmark has been as follows:...
View ArticleThe Financial Folly Of Socialist France
“…The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money …” -Margaret Thatcher It didn’t take long for the red flag to be hoisted up the flag pole for today, barely 2 weeks...
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Spain Suffers Torture Worse Than The Inquisition
Spain (Photo credit: NASA Goddard Photo and Video) Over the week just past only the yields on Italy and Spain rose; by 14bps and 61bps respectively. We at Spotlight belive we have to spend time...
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Enduring Euro Or Currency Collapse
Countries using the Euro de jure Countries and territories using the Euro de facto Countries in the EU not using the Euro (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As the 4th European Union (EU) leaders’ summit of...
View ArticleAfter Google, Time To Cut Out Earnings Season?
Guidance is tarnished…data open to manipulation. Time to exploit “Real-time” data for “live” financials. Increasingly we live in world where data dispersion is just a “CLICK” away. Sharing images with...
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Spanish Usufruct
Countries using the Euro de jure Countries and territories using the Euro de facto Countries in the EU not using the Euro (Photo credit: Wikipedia) One never ceases to be amazed at the number of...
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Non Farm Payroll Powered By Private Sector
United States of America (Photo credit: Wikipedia) On the back of a Q4 GDP -0.1% reading the first day of February reveals that the US economy added 157,000 new “Non-Farm” jobs during January. As with...
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CAPE Advocats Say Equities Overvalued…They Are Wrong.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the closing bell on August 12, 2011. US markets ended higher Friday as trade calmed at the end of one of the most turbulent weeks on record....
View ArticleManufacturing Is Moving America
For a moment, let’s cut through the hype and politics. Just let the percentage gains since the start of this year on the three main US equity indices be measured against that of the UK (measured in...
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Bank Competition, No Simple Solution
One can tell that the UK general election is just over one year away. New policy prescriptions are flowing thick and fast from the three leading parties. Unfortunately there are three areas where the...
View ArticleNon-Farm Payroll, No Firm Progress, No Fed Panic
Where have all the jobs gone? This question was not answered today as the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that in January the economy of the United States added a meagre 113,000 jobs in...
View ArticleOnce Again, François Fumbles In France
If a week is a long time in politics then, the 23 months since May 2012 when the French elected François Hollande to be President seems like an eternity. Having seen the economy slip backwards under...
View ArticleWestern Disorganisation Is Rewarding Russia
The western response to Russian aggression and agitation in the Ukraine urgently needs a coordinated response. If not then we are sleep walking toward handing the Russian monocracy the opportunity to...
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