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March 31, 2011
Mutual Fund Flows Update Tables updated through February 28, 2011 with data released March 30, 2011. Comments on Stock Funds, Bond Funds and Hybrid Funds.
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March 28, 2011
Real Time Economics (WSJ Blog) – Like The Phoenix, U.S. Finance Profits Soar Not too long ago, during the depths of the global crisis, the finance industry was on the brink of collapse. How times have changed. Friday’s revisions to U.S. gross...
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March 23, 2011
Charts of the Week Topics Covered This Week Include: Why Is The Market Rallying? Why Is The Market Rallying? – 2 Did The G-7 Panic About The Carry Trade? Which Measure Do You Prefer: Core vs. Headline The Treasury Will Sell Its MBS Holdings Japan’s CDS Soars The PIIGS The Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet Money… Continue reading Untitled
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March 18, 2011
Commitments of Traders Update/Analysis Statistics cover the CoT report for March 15, 2011. Further charts and comments include: Federal Funds Futures: Large Speculators Liquidating Longs Australian Dollar Futures: Abrupt Price And Position Changes...
LIE-BOR
March 16, 2011
Bloomberg Businessweek – UBS Says U.S. Is Probing Possible Libor Rate Manipulation UBS AG, Switzerland’s biggest bank, said it received subpoenas from U.S. authorities investigating possible attempts to manipulate the setting of the London...
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March 15, 2011
U.S. Treasury’s International Capital Statistics Update Tables and comments detailing foreign investment through January 31, 2011 with data released on March 15, 2011. Only time will tell how much Japan’s economy is affected by the...
The Myth Of Cash On The Sidelines Revisited
March 14, 2011
Real-Time Economics (WSJ Blog) – Number of the Week: Companies’ Cash Hoard Grows. $1.9 trillion: Corporate America’s cash U.S. companies’ cash hoard keeps getting bigger, a trend both good and troubling. After hitting new highs in five of...
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March 1, 2011
February Total Return Review: Stocks Again For The Long Run, But Only Barely The attached tables and comments update the total returns through February. ?? This month, we take a look at the historic nature of stock returns versus bond returns over...
TIC Revisions: What’s $268 Billion Amongst Friends?
March 1, 2011
The Financial Times – China holds $1,160bn of US debt The US Treasury has dramatically revised data on foreign holdings of US government debt, estimating that China owns more Treasuries than previously thought while the UK holds only about half...
15 Consecutive Weekly Outflows From Muni Funds
February 24, 2011
The Wall Street Journal – Hedge Funds Prop Up Muni Market—for Now The good news for the municipal-bond market in recent weeks is that some of the world’s biggest hedge funds have been buying billions of dollars in munis. That may also...
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February 17, 2011
Inflation Watch Update The attached tables update inflation rates through January 2011. This month, we compare producer prices to consumer prices in an attempt to quantify the margin squeeze that goods-producing companies are currently undergoing.
WTI/Brent Spreads Widens More
February 16, 2011
Last week, in a post titled Why Crude Oil Prices Are Now Above $100/Barrel, we said: Events are causing NYMEX futures contracts that are delivered in Cushing Oklahoma to be very unrepresentative of world crude oil prices. Cushing Oklahoma is a...