Interesting chart from the Q&A from Carney at the Bank of England: imbalances in decline (but currency war on the rise!)

(source: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/other/treasurycommittee…)

 

Brilliant title: what shale we do? Shale gas in Europe…

·         http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/07/will-fracking-ever-spread-to-europe-maybe-in-a-decade/

 

Ok: yesterday a chart on the rise of buyouts and today the news that Insider Traders are aggressively bearish… Insiders are from Mars, Buyout insiders from Venus?

·         http://articles.marketwatch.com/2013-02-06/commentary/36937273_1_sell-to-buy-ratio-insider-indicator-corporate-insiders

 

The MUST HAVE for all working in financial markets: the Credit Suisse Global Investment returns Yearbook 2013. With lots of nice charts

·         http://www.investmenteurope.net/digital_assets/6305/2013_yearbook_final_web.pdf

 

“Pension Funds Cut Back On Commodity Indexes” So you know it…

·         http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324761004578286172166045096.html

 

Research that is using the BigMac index to track adjustments within the Eurozone. Italy is moving in the wrong direction… (thanks @maratom)

·         http://www.bruegel.org/nc/blog/detail/article/1005-what-does-the-big-mac-say-about-euro-area-adjustment/

 

For all you algorithmic traders out there: Coke is also active in the field… (via @16klepper)

·         http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-31/coke-engineer
s-its-orange-juice-with-an-algorithm

 

And of course everyone will be interested to read this article on the price developmentr of Lego bricks, right?

·         http://therealityprose.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/what_happened_with_lego/

 

Currency wars have been around for some time… Although I would say the 30s is not the best comparison

·         http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-07/lessons-1930s-currency-wars

 

A bit of old news (performance over 2012), but still: high yield in 2012. How much longer can this continue…

·         http://www.businessinsider.com/richard-bernsteins-2012-review-2013-2

 

ETF’s! If this was a chart of the stock market, everybody would be screaming bubble… 🙂

·         http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/02/an-updated-look-at-etf-assets-2/

 

The most expensive city in the world? Japan, apparently!

·         http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/02/daily-chart-3

 

Cool charts.

·         http://www.businessinsider.com/census-stats-on-foreign-born-americans-2013-2

 

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