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2020 in tweeted charts!

December 24, 2020by jsblokland 1 Comment

Welcome to the 2020 edition of ‘the year in tweeted charts’: a reasonably concise overview of the year, with some eye-popping graphs. But, also, a useful exercise to improve my […]

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FINANCIAL MARKETS

2018 in (tweeted) charts!

December 28, 2018by jsblokland Leave a comment

2018 in (tweeted) charts! This blog aims to give a relatively concise overview of financial markets in 2018 using a selection of charts I tweeted throughout the year. While this […]

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FINANCIAL MARKETS, MACRO

Why Does the Bitcoin Fork Make You Richer?

August 3, 2017by jsblokland Leave a comment

As a traditional investor I’m intrigued by what has happened with Bitcoin in recent days. Because the bitcoin community, developers, miners, exchanges, and so on, couldn’t agree on how to […]

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FINANCIAL MARKETS

Negative Yields – A Flight to Safes!

June 16, 2016by jsblokland Leave a comment

Here’s a quick blog devoted to everything that is going on in the bond markets right now. As you must have noticed, bond yields are collapsing around the globe. Again! […]

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BONDS, FINANCIAL MARKETS

15 charts that defined 2015 in financial markets

December 29, 2015by jsblokland Leave a comment

Before you start, ‘yes’ there are probably more charts that define 2015 in financial markets. But, at least I tried! 1. Swiss Bond Madness ‘Swissification was born after an admirable, […]

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FINANCIAL MARKETS

Week End Blog – Commodity Blues hits Investor Sentiment

November 13, 2015by jsblokland 1 Comment

What started as a friendly week, turned out to be an ugly one, instead. Another leg down in commodity prices triggered investor pessimism, which was reflected in falling equity prices […]

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FINANCIAL MARKETS, MACRO

Week End Blog – Zero is NOT the Lower Bound!

October 30, 2015by jsblokland Leave a comment

Zero is not the lower bound! The graph below shows this was already the case, but this week the ECB and Sweden’s Riksbank hinted at even lower rates going forward. […]

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FINANCIAL MARKETS, MACRO

Week End Blog – A Swiss Earthquake!

January 16, 2015by jsblokland Leave a comment

This already wasn’t the smoothest of starts of the year, but the Swiss Central Bank decided to make things really interesting. In quite a surprise move (there were some rumors […]

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FINANCIAL MARKETS, MACRO

Week End Blog – With Central Banks, (dis)inflation and QE

January 9, 2015by jsblokland 1 Comment

Another week in which central banks took center stage. Again, it became pretty clear that the performance of equity markets is still heavily impacted by the actions, speeches and ‘internal […]

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FINANCIAL MARKETS, MACRO

Week End Blog – Yellen to the rescue!

December 19, 2014by jsblokland Leave a comment

 This week started in the same fashion as the last one ended. Greek presidential elections, falling oil prices, and a collapsing ruble dragged equity markets down globally. But, on Wednesday, […]

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FINANCIAL MARKETS, MACRO

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