Macquarie on the death of markets

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From Macquarie:

Between ignorance & confusion Rapid sentiment reversal with incoherent signals…

 The last several weeks witnessed one of the strongest reversals since the GFC. Following Brexit, the virtual implosion of the Italian banking sector and May poor payrolls, investors had to absorb a jump in Jun payroll and full panic mode by CBs, including: (a) flagged BoE easing; (b) a potential Japanese “helicopter drop”; (c) growing calls for public recapitalization of Euro banks; (d) easing by a plethora of countries; and (e) acceptance that Fed cannot tighten.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.