Jun 23, 20223 minThe Panic Zone It is clearly an understatement to say that the broad selling in equities became extreme last week. From our perch, that sets the stage...
Jun 22, 20222 minThe Titanic Yen The rally in the US dollar and depreciation of the Japanese Yen has become episodic. Clearly it has not gone unnoticed and is now the...
May 31, 20222 minTaming the Hurricane It is an obvious point, but volatility is a derivative of price itself. From our perch, there has been a notable moderation in bond and...
Apr 29, 20223 minThe Crash in Trash The crash in trash (profitless technology companies) has been brutal year to date and from the peak in February last year (-40% year to...
Apr 13, 20223 minThe Slope of Hope The recent market obsession – inflation – wasn’t quite as bad as feared, with the core reading falling well short of the consensus...
Mar 31, 20223 minThe (Unsustainable) Gap Between Actions & Promises Oh boy, what a quarter it has been in markets. The round trip on the S&P500 (the global risk proxy) has been -14% from the early January...
Feb 24, 20223 minHas the Game Changed?Abstracting from the short term price action, a key big picture question for investors is whether the game has changed? Put another way,...
Jan 20, 20222 minThe Correlated Shock A question we often ask is; “what is your quarrel with price?” In our humble opinion markets are not efficient in a macro (or micro)...
Dec 16, 20213 minThe End of Super-Abundant Liquidity The prevailing bias among market participants over the past few months has been that an early start to rate hikes would imply a need for...
Nov 17, 20213 minThe Smiling Assassin (the Dollar Smile)One of the complexities of the foreign exchange market is that the US dollar – as the global reserve currency – can rally in phases of...