Have we seen peak EUR?
The euro is up 12% against the USD this year. We haven’t seen this kind of euro appreciation for quite some time, as the ECB was the last central bank […]
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The week in charts – episode 1
This week in financial markets summarized in charts.
Week End Blog – #BrexitOrNot!
Well, this turned out to be quite an interesting week. A ‘boomerang’ week. First, we got ‘mayhem.’ Brexit was going to ruin us all. As expected the British Pound was […]
Week End Blog – Dovish Dots
The Week End Blog is back! And so are central banks. If you thought their toolkit was empty, guess again. The ECB neatly demonstrated that central bankers have become notoriously […]
For those betting on a stronger USD, the odds are against you!
Even after Yellen’s dovish statement and the downward adjustment in the expected ‘appropriate’ interest rate levels visualized by the FOMC ‘dot plot’, the Federal Reserve is the only major central […]
Week End Blog – Draghi Delusion
It had to happen at some point. And last Thursday it became reality. Draghi disappointed markets by lowering the ECB deposit rate by ‘just’ 10 bps and by ‘only’ extending, […]
Week End Blog – Zero is NOT the Lower Bound!
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. […]
Week End Blog – Central Bank Headline Headaches!
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 […]
Week End Blog – Limit Downs, PMIs and Fed Anxiety
After a couple of weeks of ‘Greece skipping’, I’m allowing the country back into the Week End Blog. Politicians have taken a more constructive stance, although it remains quite uncertain […]
Week End Blog – Emerging Market Meltdown!
Forget about Greece, emerging markets are the latest recipe for market turmoil. Especially China, where the economy looks to be in worse shape than anticipated, is causing quite a few […]
