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Bill Gross on Risk Seeking Return and Safe Carry

Edward Harrison — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:00:32 +0000

Bill Gross is out with his monthly commentary. Because his points are central to the discussion of policy and markets right now, I am going to write this weekly newsletter commentary outside the paywall. The major question is about how to invest in a world that levers much more slowly in total, and can delever sharply in selective sectors and countries. Gross has some answers and I have some comments on the macro backdrop

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Connect the Carry Trades

Global Macro Monitor — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:30:51 +0000

So, our friends, a few questions. Which rates are the result of financial repression, capital flows, and/or stellar credit risk? And what is the best carry trade, assuming you can borrow close to the sovereign

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Mrs Watanabe has amassed a large short yen position

Marc Chandler — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:27:48 +0000

Something interesting is being played out. Margin traders--the famed Mrs Watanabe-- at the Tokyo Futures Exchange--have amassed a large short yen position. There are about 900k short yen contracts as of today and about 364k are short yen against the dollar. This is the largest short yen long dollar positions since

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Financing world trade – Buy the dollar

Edward Harrison — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:30:31 +0000

Andy Lees argues insufficient dollars are getting into the system from the US current account deficit to finance the growth in global trade, so the stock of these international dollars is falling relative to the value of world trade. He says this means the dollars are either getting in through other means to finance global trade, or as appears to be happening over the last couple of months, global trade will have to slow

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The Carry Trade and Fed Swap Lines

Edward Harrison — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:30:30 +0000

The Fed is stuck at permanent zero and that means the carry trade is on. If we did have another panic, those swap lines would be handy because the Fed would again become the global lender of last resort

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Forexblog – Q&A on Macroeonomics, FX and all the Rest of It

Claus Vistesen — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:19:51 +0000

I was recently contacted by Adam Kritzer who is a lead editor on Forexblog which is arguably the best one stop resource for people interested in FX (trading) and the importance of foreign exchange in general. He asked me whether I would answer some questions about macroeconomics and FX markets. You can see his questions

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The Euro As A Carry Trade Funder … Surprising?

Claus Vistesen — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:40:00 +0000

Nothing is so bad, that it isn’t good for something. So goes an old adage in my home country (and I would imagine elsewhere too) and perhaps if hard-burdened Eurozone policy makers and investors are finding it hard to find any kind of (positive) silver lining in the current debacle, they may just want to

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Links: 2010-05-15 Gordon Gekko at Cannes and the carry trade unwind

Edward Harrison — Sat, 15 May 2010 13:16:12 +0000

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Liquidity Giveth, Liquidity Taketh – The IMF On International Capital Flows

Claus Vistesen — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:25:19 +0000

To be an economist these days is a rare privilege and especially; it is a privilege to be a blogging economist since there is just so much good material to write about at the moment. On the one hand, there is the unfolding unravelling of Goldman Sachs (loads of material out there already, but just

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Quantitative easing is not the cure to what ails Europe

Edward Harrison — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:47:57 +0000

"This is definitely a threat on the horizon," said Blaise Ganguin, the agency’s European credit chief. Some 75 companies large enough to be rated face likely default in 2010 as the slow-burn effects of the crisis hit home. The default rate peaked near 13pc this year, the highest since S&P began to collect data. This

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