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Chart of the Day: The Shanghai Bounce
The Shanghai has put in its best two day performance since September ’09, rising 5.8 percent. After its post crash peak in August 2009, Chinese stocks have fallen almost 40 percent before hitting their lows last Friday
Chart of the Day: Dollar Top or Breakout?
Tough to bet on a triple top here. Looks like 82.60 is the next key level, which is the .618 fib retracement of the June 7, 2010/May 2, 2011 move
Chart of the Day: S&P500 2011 Heat Map
A visual representation of how stocks in the S&P 500 fared in 2011 with Green for gains and red for losses
Chart of the Day: Market Year in Review
Wow! Who would of thunk it. The Dow the only major global equity index positive for the year. U.S. Treasuries up 15-20 percent, the dollar index (Dixe) positive; Brazil and Chinese equities down 20 percent and India down almost 25 percent. Copper was on everybody’s buy list at the beginning year, finished down over 20 percent; and foodstuffs had nowhere to go but north, finishing flat after spiking earlier in the year and taking most of the political leaders in North Africa with them
Chart of the Day: International Manufacturing Compensation Costs Compared
Great data from the BLS comparing hourly compensation for manufacturing. The second chart looks at the benefits component of the hourly cost
Chart of the Day: U.S. Real Earnings through November 2011
Only three positive months in the last year. Lots of pain out there. Be charitable this holiday season, our friends. The return is tremendous
Chart of the Day: The ECB Balance Sheet
Who says the ECB can’t keep up with the Fed. As the euro crisis has caused liquidity for euro zone banks to dry up, the ECB has taken on the intermediation role. In essence, they have taken on the dollar liquidity function that the US money markets used to provide via its bank liquidity operations and currency swaps with the Fed
Chart of the Day: China’s Financial Architecture
Now the bubble is visibly bursting. How much damage will it do to the Chinese economy — and the world? That is our homework assignment over the holiday. Getting it right will determine 2012′s investment and trading returns, in our opinion. We leave you with an excellent flowchart and table from the IMF explaining China’s financial architecture
Chart of the Day: European Bank Recapitalization
A chart with a country by country breakdown of the over 100 billion euros of additional capital needed by euro zone banks
Chart of the Day: Post-Bubble Performance Comps of U.S. Financials and Techs
The guys over at Bespoke put out a great piece yesterday comparing the post-bubble performance of U.S. financials after the February 2007 top and the technology sector after the dot.com peak in March 2000.
More Charts of the Day: Italy Works Over 20% More Hours Than Germany and France
The stereotype of lazy southern Europe and the hard working North is just not reflected in the data. We came across this BLS data set over the weekend which was very enlightening and, in part, smashes this widely held generalization
The Ugly Chart Contest
Here’s a couple ugly charts we’re monitoring: China’s Shanghai Composite stock index and Commodity Research Bureau Index (CRB). Do you think there’s causality here? Remember the “China is buying/hoarding every commodity” story