Dovish Dots, but less stimulus the trend
After disbelieving the Fed for months, markets braced for a powerful message accompanying the first rate hike of this year. But that didn’t happen. One dovish hike and speech made […]
Tag Archives: Bank of Japan
Week End Blog – with Sharks, Fertility Rates, Chinese Gravity , and… Greece
Last week I surrendered and dedicated most of my blog to Greece. Perhaps that was under the (unknowingly) naive assumption that Greece would have gone away by now. But, of […]
Central Bank Balance Sheets and Market Returns
A lot has been written about the impact of Quantitative Easing. And while it is arguable whether or not the extraordinary measures taken by central banks have had any significant […]
Potentially Dangerous Graph
The graph above is a potentially dangerous one. Until recently the fall of the yen was accompanied by a low, or even a falling Japanese bond yield. This was not […]
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