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Weekly Sentiment Survey: Correction...
This article reviews the latest weekly sentiment survey we conduct over on Twitter. The survey measures respondents' equity and bond...
Callum Thomas
Aug 21, 20172 min read
Weekly Macro Themes - 18 Aug 2017
Here's a brief preview of the topics and charts covered in the latest edition of the Weekly Macro Themes report. To read more and see the...
Topdown Charts
Aug 18, 20172 min read


Weekly Sentiment Survey: Panic.
This article reviews the latest weekly sentiment survey we conduct over on Twitter. The survey measures respondents' equity and bond...
Callum Thomas
Aug 14, 20172 min read


VIDEO: Why look at global property prices?
In this video we look at the trends in global property prices, and why it matter for the global economic and financial market outlook. ...
Topdown Charts
Aug 9, 20171 min read


ChartBrief 126 - A tight US labor market
The July jobs report had the US unemployment rate dropping back to 4.3%, which is slightly lower than the trough in 2007, and comfortably...
Callum Thomas
Aug 5, 20172 min read


ChartBrief 123 - Eurozone inflation upside
Most analysts continue to be too bearish on the Eurozone economy, and one area where there's potential for further upside surprise is...
Callum Thomas
Aug 1, 20172 min read


ChartBrief 114 - Global flash manufacturing PMI ticks up in July
The July round of flash manufacturing PMIs showed a slight but important rebound in the "global flash manufacturing PMI" (an indicator we...
Callum Thomas
Jul 25, 20172 min read


ChartBrief 111 - 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...
Callum Thomas
Jul 19, 20171 min read


ChartBrief 110 - Global inflation trends
Recently the main talk in markets was reflation, but about 2 years ago everyone was talking about deflation: why deflation was...
Callum Thomas
Jul 17, 20172 min read


ChartBrief 108 - Global bond market breakdown
After the big reflation reset in positioning, global bond markets are showing more signs of breaking down. We previously talked in detail...
Callum Thomas
Jul 15, 20172 min read


This FAANG is Not Dot Com
There's been a lot of talk about the so-called FAANG stocks and parallels being drawn against the 2000's dot com bubble. With S&P500...
Callum Thomas
Jul 11, 20171 min read


ChartBrief 99 - Reflation Futures Positioning Resets
The latest round of COT futures positioning data confirms a very interesting pattern that we have observed over the past year. There has...
Callum Thomas
Jul 9, 20171 min read
Weekly Macro Themes - 7 July 2017
Here's a brief preview of the topics and charts covered in the latest edition of the Weekly Macro Themes report. To read more and see the...
Topdown Charts
Jul 7, 20172 min read


US High Yield Credit Spreads Low - as they should be?
Most people are probably aware that US High Yield credit spreads are trading at the bottom end of the range - almost 1 standard deviation...
Callum Thomas
Jul 5, 20172 min read


ChartBrief 95 - Emerging Market Bond Flows
Emerging market bonds have come under pressure along with the rest of the bond market as a sort of Taper 2.0 has hit the market [ECB...
Callum Thomas
Jul 5, 20172 min read


ChartBrief 94 - Bond breadth breakdown
One of the key indicators we track in our bond strategy analysis is global sovereign bond market breadth. This simply captures the...
Callum Thomas
Jul 5, 20172 min read


Investor Sentiment Snapshot: Divergences
The latest weekly investor sentiment poll on twitter showed up a couple of interesting divergences that may offer clues on the next steps...
Callum Thomas
Jul 3, 20172 min read
Weekly Macro Themes - 30 June 2017
Here's a brief preview of the topics and charts covered in the latest edition of the Weekly Macro Themes report. To read more and see the...
Topdown Charts
Jun 30, 20172 min read


ChartBrief 89 - The search for yield continues
If the amount of AUM in yield and income related ETFs is anything to go by, it would seem that the search for yield is alive and well. ...
Callum Thomas
Jun 28, 20172 min read


ChartBrief 88 - Global flash PMI enters into a downtrend, what's next?
The latest round of flash manufacturing PMIs saw the "global composite" that we put together fall -0.40 to 53.8 which places it down...
Callum Thomas
Jun 24, 20172 min read
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