Global Macro Trading Journal

[ralph00]

Quote from m22au:

posted here merely on a "for what it's worth" basis:

http://twitter.com/#!/zerohedge/status/101271809571303424
Intesa down 8%, rumor of French downgrade

For some reason, ET doesn't do the urls right for twitter, you've got to put them in manually.

 

[m22au]

Quote from ralph00:

For some reason, ET doesn't do the urls right for twitter, you've got to put them in manually.

I think you need to remove the #! after the .com/

testing:

http://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/101271809571303424
Intesa down 8%, rumor of French downgrade

 

[ralph00]

SocGen -19% in Paris, rumors of emergency meetings with Sarkozy

If this isn't 2008 all over again, I don't know what is.

 

[m22au]

Quote from ralph00:

SocGen -19% in Paris, rumors of emergency meetings with Sarkozy

If this isn't 2008 all over again, I don't know what is.

http://twitter.com/FGoria/status/101295264488361985

***Market talk that SocGen 12 month gold forward rate was a typo on the original FT Alphaville article***

 

[Butterball]

Bye bye Europe, was nice knowing ya. How long before Trichet flip-flops on his rate hikes a la 2008?

 

[Daal]

Quote from Butterball:

Bye bye Europe, was nice knowing ya. How long before Trichet flip-flops on his rate hikes a la 2008?

Will be tough for him to say good bye on another flip-flop, the new president might do for him

 

[ralph00]

Quote from m22au:

http://twitter.com/FGoria/status/101295264488361985

***Market talk that SocGen 12 month gold forward rate was a typo on the original FT Alphaville article***

Yeah, but their exposure to Italy and maybe being massively short vs. the swissie are not.

 

[ralph00]

ZH reporting Paulson -31% YTD. Ouch for the morons who invested with this guy because he got one macro trade right.

 

[Butterball]

Maybe Paulson can join Pellegrini for a round of golf soon.

 

[Martinghoul]

The SocGen rumors are a total bunch of unadulterated bollox...