Watching the market’s panicked reaction this morning as the reality of the recent surge in first breakevens then real yields, is finally appreciated by the “cubic zirconium” hands, the momentum chasing algos and the puking CTAs, can’t help...
For the first time, China has officially become the European Union’s top trading partner, trumping the United States, which has long held that status. According to the EU’s statistics office, Eurostat, last year, mostly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic but...
I had to do a double-take recently when reading a CNBC headline that stated: “The only reason to be bearish is there’s no reason to be bearish.” It is indeed hard to argue the point. As the article explained: “A majority of investors finally agree the V-shaped...
Yesterday marked the end of the Perseverance rover’s 300m mile journey to Mars and the start of a 687-day mission to better understand whether the planet would make for a nice place to live. Costs for development and operation of the rover will likely total $2.4B… …...
First round went to Government and Media. It all happened Down-Under: Google backed away from fighting the new Oz rules, and settled after coming to suspiciously chummy terms with Murdoch’s News Corp and others. Earlier this week Google’s head of country basically...