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EC Today’s Trading Plan: End To A Historical Quarter
Technical Outlook: Gap up yesterday held on but not in an overly convincing manner on the SPY – finishing slightly lower than its opening price. Volume trailed off from the day prior and is still well below recent averages. Potential bull flag pattern forming on the SPY 30 minute chart. Yesterday’s price action represented okay […]
Spotify Raises $1 Billion In Debt
Written by PitchBook Music streaming company Spotify has reportedly raised $1 billion of convertible debt from firms including TPG and Dragoneer, and the lenders are said to have worked in some advantageous terms. Not only will they convert the debt to equity at a 20% discount of the share price when Spotify IPOs but, if Spotify […]
E The Daily Shot And Data – March 31, 2016
Greetings, We begin with emerging markets which have been experiencing a worse recession than what we saw during 2008/09. Here is the breakdown by country. Source: @FitchRatings, h/t Josh Continuing with emerging markets, here are more updates. 1. Taiwan’s economy has been sputtering as a result of the global demand slowdown (especially the PRC). The […]
Silver: Can Jobless Claims Tempt Traders To Break The Deadlock?
Silver prices have been range bound over the last few days with yesterday’s high of $15.46 capping prices and Tuesday’s low of $15.08 supporting them. The support levels beyond Tuesday’s low of $15.08 are the March 3 low of $14.87 and the March 1 low of $14.75. Resistance levels beyond yesterday’s high are the March […]
China Credit Ratings Cut To Negative
Today’s Economic events UK Gfk Consumer confidence 0 vs. -1 Australia New home sales m/m -5.30% vs. 0.60% previously Australia private sector credit m/m 0.60% vs. 0.50% Japan housing starts y/y 7.80% vs. -2.20% French consumer spending m/m 0.60% vs. 0.10% French preliminary CPI m/m 0.70% vs. 0.50% BoE Gov. Carney speech UK Current account […]
McDonald’s ‘Simplicity’ More Than A PR Stunt
McDonald’s (MCD) has a problem. While the recent introduction of all-day breakfast has made for a quick turnaround in same-store sales — a whopping 5.7% growth in Q4 of last year — it also made one of the fast-food giant’s problems worse: expanding its already gigantic list of menu items. In 2014, McDonald’s had 121 menu items. […]
Europe Remains Stuck In Deflation For Second Month
The last time Europe had at least two consecutive months of deflation was in late 2014/early 2015 when the ECB launched its sovereign QE, and when prices staged a modest rebound into the rest of the year. One year later, it’s more of the same, and as Eurostat revealed earlier today, after a headline price […]
Dynamic Inefficiency
This is a post about macroeconomic theory. It is technical and I honestly don’t know how much is already in the literature. The aim is to address an important policy question — is public debt a burden on future generations. It is possible in theory that the answer is no and that higher public debt […]
