When Defensive Assets Stop Working
What if I told you there was a bubble but it wasn't in risk assets? What if I told you that the assets most investors look to for safety...
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Callum Thomas
- Dec 5, 2018
- 2 min
Top 5 Charts of the Week: China, Global Trade, Reflation, and Asian FX
Here's some of the standout economic and markets charts on my radar. I aim to pick a good mix of charts covering key global macro trends,...
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Topdown Charts
- Nov 21, 2018
- 1 min
VIDEO: Top 5 Charts of the Week
In this video we run through the free weekly email newsletter "The Top 5 Charts of the Week" and add a bit of extra comments and context....
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Callum Thomas
- Nov 21, 2018
- 1 min
Chart Of The Week: Politics, Policy, And The Chinese Bear Market
Policy and politics are issues that have great impact on the risk/return outlook across markets and geographies, but I think it's fair to...
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Callum Thomas
- Nov 5, 2018
- 2 min
Economic Policy Uncertainty and Global Equities
It seems over the past few years the only certainty has been rising uncertainty, and the folk at Economic Policy Uncertainty have a set...
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Topdown Charts
- Sep 13, 2018
- 1 min
VIDEO: Top 5 Charts of the Week
In this video we run through the free weekly email newsletter "The Top 5 Charts of the Week" and add a bit of extra comments and context....
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Callum Thomas
- Sep 10, 2018
- 1 min
Chart: Global Equity Volatility vs Economic Policy Uncertainty
Economic policy uncertainty, and political risk in general has basically been a constant over the past few years. In more recent times...
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Callum Thomas
- Aug 10, 2018
- 1 min
Chart: Policy Uncertainty Surges in China
Every now and then you come across a chart that makes you do a double take, and I think this is one of those. It shows the "Economic...
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Callum Thomas
- Jun 10, 2018
- 1 min
Chart: Eurozone Credit Risk Pricing
This chart of Eurozone credit risk pricing attracted a lot of interest when I originally posted it, and it remains extremely topical, so...
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Topdown Charts
- Jun 5, 2018
- 1 min
VIDEO: Top 5 Charts of the Week
In this video we run through the free weekly email newsletter "The Top 5 Charts of the Week" and add a bit of extra comments and context....
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Callum Thomas
- Jun 4, 2018
- 2 min
Chart Of The Week: Eurozone Credit Risk
This week it's a look at credit risk pricing in the Eurozone. This is a chart I've been using a lot in recent months, of course as of the...
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Callum Thomas
- May 29, 2018
- 2 min
A Key Driver of Bond Yields: Governance
Through the cycle a lot of factors push and pull bond yields around, but as I was doing some research on governance rankings across...
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Callum Thomas
- Dec 11, 2017
- 2 min
Expect more volatility?
Globally equity volatility is low. For that matter, volatility (both implied and realized) is low across the major asset classes. But...
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Topdown Charts
- Dec 10, 2017
- 2 min
Weekly Macro Themes - 8 Dec 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...
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Callum Thomas
- Sep 8, 2017
- 1 min
ChartBrief 144 - Global policy uncertainty peaks and volatility troughs
A curious couple of trends are underway on the global stage. Global economic policy uncertainty appears to have peaked at an all time...
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Callum Thomas
- Aug 15, 2017
- 2 min
ChartBrief 129 - The thing about Trump and North Korea...
After a crazy week the risk of a nuclear war has seemingly receded with the announcement by North Korea that its planned missile strike...
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Callum Thomas
- Jun 15, 2017
- 2 min
ChartBrief 85 - Are we all wrong about volatility?
A number of commentators have pointed out the divergence between economic policy uncertainty indexes and the VIX or equity volatility. ...
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Topdown Charts
- Apr 21, 2017
- 1 min
Weekly Macro Themes - 21 Apr 2017
Here's a brief preview of the topics and charts covered in the latest Weekly Macro Themes report. To read more and see the charts just...
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Topdown Charts
- Apr 13, 2017
- 1 min
Weekly Macro Themes - 13 Apr 2017
Here's a brief preview of the topics and charts covered in the latest Weekly Macro Themes report. To read more and see the charts just...
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Callum Thomas
- Dec 11, 2016
- 2 min
ChartBrief #36 Peak Political Risk?
2016 was the year of political risk. From Trump to Brexit, China's ongoing economic and political transitions, India's demonetisation,...
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