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The week in charts – Week 13

March 31, 2017by jsblokland Leave a comment

13. Base effects! Eurozone inflation came in significantly lower than expected, mostly due to a bigger than anticipated drop in energy prices. Core inflation fell as well, but this has […]

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FINANCIAL MARKETS, MACRO

The week in charts – episode 3

March 24, 2017by jsblokland Leave a comment

Here’s an overview of some of the most telling financial markets charts of this week.

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FINANCIAL MARKETS, MACRO

Taper Time!

February 3, 2017by jsblokland Leave a comment

Inflation in the Eurozone spiked to 1.8% in January, the highest level in almost four years! More importantly, 1.8% is also extremely close to the ECB’s inflation target of ‘below, […]

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BONDS, MACRO

Inflation is not dead! – Update

February 1, 2016by jsblokland Leave a comment

Last November, I wrote a short blog arguing that inflation was not dead. In fact, significant parts of the economy showed inflation was on the rise. This was, however, completely […]

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BONDS, MACRO

8 Charts to Show Inflation is not Dead!

November 20, 2015by jsblokland 1 Comment

Commodities are hitting new lows almost every day. Copper, nickel, oil, they have all gone down the drain. The obvious result: lowflation! In the last couple of years a major […]

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FINANCIAL MARKETS, MACRO

Week End Blog – Draghi does it again!

October 23, 2015by jsblokland Leave a comment

Draghi does it again! A headline very appropriate for many financial articles and blogs, including this one. At the press conference, following the decision of the Governing Council of the […]

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FINANCIAL MARKETS, MACRO

Week End Blog – Central Bank Headline Headaches!

October 16, 2015by jsblokland 1 Comment

I start off this episode of the Week End Blog with a shameless example of self-advertisement. This week I made it to Business Insider’s list of ‘the 128 finance people […]

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FINANCIAL MARKETS, MACRO

Week End Blog – with Sharks, Fertility Rates, Chinese Gravity , and… Greece

June 26, 2015by jsblokland Leave a comment

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 […]

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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

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