Browsing All Posts By Kurt Osterberg
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When You Stop Reading After The Second Sentence
On June 27, ECB President Mario Draghi opened that central bank’s international conference in Sintra, Portugal. Most media never made it past the first two sentences of his prepared remarks. For t... -
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Six Flags Drops As CEO ‘Retires’ After Under Two Years In Role
Shares of Six Flags Entertainment (SIX) dropped in afternoon trading after the company announced the retirement of its chief executive officer after just 17 months in the role. Following the news, an ... -
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It’s Complicated
Things changed a lot in the past two weeks. The US Fed’s promises to keep tightening financial conditions look a lot shakier than they did at the start of the month, thanks to a series of weak econo... -
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June 2017 Import Sea Containers Suggest Improving Economy
The June month-over-month import and export container counts are suggesting a growing USA economy, but a slowing global economy – and a worsening trade balance. Analyst Opinion of Container Move... -
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Subprime Redux: Problems Brewing In Auto Loans
It’s classic subprime: hasty loans, rapid defaults, and, at times, outright fraud. Only this isn’t the U.S. housing market circa 2007. It’s the U.S. auto industry circa 2017. A decade after the ... -
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The BOJ Bond Buying Binge
As the Bank of Japan is set to meet this week to review monetary policy settings it’s worth checking in on a couple of particularly relevant charts. The first one shows the Bank of Japan has... -
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AUD/JPY Rallies To Fresh Yearly Highs – Initial 2017 Targets In View
Technical Outlook: AUD/JPY closed above technical resistance at 87.55/64 last week, keeping the broader long-bias intact. Price is pushing through the yearly opening-range highs on this stretch wi... -
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Homebuilder Seniment Falls To Eight Month Low As Lumber Prices Spike
Shares of U.S. homebuilders are all trading lower after a key metric for the group missed expectations. HOME BUILDER SENTIMENT: Builder confidence for newly-built single-family homes dropped to its lo... -
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The ECB’s Balance Sheet Is Now The Size Of Japan’s GDP
Yesterday was a landmark day for the ECB. First, the central bank disclosed that its CSPP, or corporate bond, holdings rose above €100Bn for the first time. As DB’s Jim Reids notes this mornin... -
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Get Rich Slowly
“The people who have gotten rich quickly are also the ones who got poor quickly.” – John Templeton A Forbes article of July 1974 profiled John Templeton and highlighted some of the wisdom he ...
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