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vague rumours of china selling us treasuries doing the rounds. no significant story or source to pin it on but this rumour doing the rounds as we speak.

better to take the pain now than later. when the fed ecb and boe realise they provided too much cheap money and real interest rates are still too low it will all be too late. no one can even get their head round the fact that rates in the usa and europe will have to go up substantially in...

think again thats what goldman thought

think again thats what goldman thought

probably released this after they shorted the market though

THE GREATER FOOL THEORY A theory that states it is possible to make money by buying securities, whether overvalued or not, and later selling them at a profit because there will always be someone (a bigger or greater fool) who is willing to pay the higher price. When acting in accordance...

i think quite simply it means being long stocks in a market that is full of bulls and bullish comments and using the old classic from 1929. ' OF COURSE THIS TIMES ITS DIFFERENT' it will be different this time because when the deleveraging begins in these markets there will be an...

just wanted to point out to anyone trading us treasury futures. last week their client survey gave the following results: 29/05/07: long - 30 neutral - 58 short - 12 this was the highest number of longs since may 03. us ten year was trading at 106.215. now here is the latest...

well the authorities gloabally have tried to adjust/deceive the inflation figures to suit their own needs. sometimes through hedonics or sometimes through cruder methods. the good thing about the free market though is that higher prices will show up sooner or late. e.g. food , petrol ...

this has been on the cards for a while out in spain. i think the real issue is the fact that it is so expensive to live in spain compared to 10-15 years ago. that was the point of relocating to spain from a country in europe. you could get nice weather, a nice cheap place to stay and...

this has got to be a first. someone actually issuing a sell signal to its investors and the market. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/06/06/cnmorgan106.xml

obviously they will be refunding all their clients who took their point of view. when these guys come out and say they think rates are going higher im gonna load up with eurodollars and treasuries to the ying yangs. this us chief economist at goldman probably makes 2 million a year with no...

the german five year future. have you heard of the german bond market or not?

at 6:58 am we will hold a two minutes silence for the departure of our dear old friend the ' bobl '. he was a great friend to us all and provided everybody who traded it againt the bund , the shatz , the five year and the euribor with a few ticks a day. sadly that has all come to an end...

http://www.euronext.com/fic/000/020/880/208805.xls using the above link to go to liffe statisical historic data you will note the following: comparing month on month march 2007 versus april 2007: all short term interest rate products for traded contracts are down a massive 20.2...

you are correct my friend that they can be hit by anybody at anytime for the amount they are working. i spoke to liffe this morning and subject to your own margin requirements the maximum the system is set up for is 999,000 lots in total. that means across the strip or an individual...

this looks like its gonna be a long while. they are normally up and running by now. maybe some algo blew their system up and they are going to ban them all. then again.

i was just looking at pimcos website and billy boys latest report. he seems to have changed his tune. they must be long treasuries up to the ying yangs since he was always calling for rate cuts. this is his august 2006 update below. aptly titled The End of History and the Last...

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