Markets

by Chris Becker Macro Wrap In case you haven’t noticed, its all about Europe – still – although as part of Asia, we need to watch whats going on regionally (e.g KOSPI and Jakarta indices, and the STI and AUD/JPY cross).

So where have the markets gone this week? Past the daily noise and headlines, this weekly chart heavy post will examine the major markets (debt, commodities and currencies) with the Australian investor in mind.

by Chris Becker Macro Wrap Another very interesting session overnight on risk markets, the takeaway being crude rose, gold flat,bonds very mixed and King Dollar remaining strong.

By Chris Becker Remember to read “Trading Week“, published Saturday morning, to put these events and ideas in context.

by Chris Becker Macro Wrap It was Europe risk on, gold smashed, US stocks flat last night, sold off sharply in the last hour.

By Chris Becker Remember to read “Trading Week“, published Saturday morning, to put these events and ideas in context.

by Chris Becker Macro Wrap Cats were a bouncing on risk markets last night as the oversold conditions from the previous week melee reversed amidst no data releases, just platitudes and niceties from European and Chinese officials.

By Chris Becker Remember to read “Trading Week“, published Saturday morning, to put these events and ideas in context.

by Chris Becker Macro Wrap Well that was a fun holiday – what did I miss?

By Greg McKenna deputising for Chris Becker who’ll be back next week So where have the markets gone this week? Past the daily noise and headlines, this weekly chart heavy post will examine the major markets (debt, commodities and currencies) with the Australian investor in mind.

by Greg McKenna filling in for Chris Becker Macro Wrap Well that didn’t last long – yesterday’s better price action in Asian equities, US equity night futures and other risk assets gave way to more worries about Greece and the pending euro implosion.

by Greg McKenna filling in for Chris Becker Macro Wrap If you could see my computer screen with all the Bloomberg charts you would get a real sense of just how parlous things are becoming in markets at present.

by Greg McKenna filling in for Chris Becker Macro Wrap More downside price discovery overnight as the woes and fears over Greece continue to impact sentiment and thus trading in markets.

by Greg McKenna filling in for Chris Becker Macro Wrap It’s all about Greece and Europe again overnight as stocks fell across the board, commodities came under pressure and the USD was up once again.

The opinions of a few people in a small number of credit rating agencies (CRAs) dictate the operations of a significant part of the global debt markets.

by Greg McKenna filling in for Chris Becker Macro Wrap Two big headlines dominate the macro landscape this morning and they both speak to the fact that after 5 years of the GFC things really haven’t changed that much and lessons have not been learned.

by Chris Becker Macro Wrap The Greeks continue to be watched closely by risk markets (and countless terabytes of computer algo’s) with hope that a new Greek government can be formed shortly easing the dip seen recently.

by Chris Becker Macro Wrap The dip continues!

by Chris Becker Remember to read “Trading Week“, published Saturday morning, to put these events and ideas in context.

by Chris Becker Macro Wrap Apart from the laser like (or lizard like going by MSM coverage) focus on the Australian Budget last night, markets were really worrying about the post-Greek election machinations with a new default loomin.

by Chris Becker.

by Chris Becker Macro Wrap Well that was a fun short holiday.

So where have the markets gone this week? Past the daily noise and headlines, this weekly chart heavy post will examine the major markets (debt, commodities and currencies) with the Australian investor in mind.

Macro Wrap Apologies for the lateness of this update, but I was up watching the events unfold to the early hours of the morning whilst doing a large round of quant work.