Good morning. Specially for the Dutch elections today, a nice tool showing possible coalitions based on restrictions you can enter yourself (via @leonmwc)
(source http://www.coalitiechecker.nl/)
Dutch Elections, iphone 5 and German court ruling: which one is going to be the market mover today? I am pretty sure not the first one…
And this one should have been posted on 9-11, but I can still sneak it in, I think: what has changed over the 11 years..
· http://www.zerohedge.com/news/september-11-%E2%80%93-eleven-years-later-selected-statistics
High yield spread hits the low of the year. Some longer term perspective would have been welcome though…
· http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2012/9/11/high-yield-spreads-at-lows-for-the-year.html
A positive post on China: a rare find these days…
· http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/09/11/1153371/one-for-the-china-bulls/
Moody’s is playing tough with US on the budgetary development in 2013…
· http://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-issues-update-on-the-outlook-for-the-US-governments–PR_254944
· http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/11/us-markets-rating-usa-idUSBRE88A0R420120911
Ha, ha, ha! That’s all I can say on this one…
· http://www.people-press.org/2012/09/11/record-partisan-gap-in-views-of-economic-news/
Nice one: how much each sector needs to go up in the S&P to reach its old all-time high. Go financials, go!
· http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2012/9/11/sp-500-sectors-distance-from-all-time-highs.html
Why has the price of copper risen, given the high (and rising) level of stock?
· http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443779404577643930176911276.html
Imbalances in the Eurozone have not decreased because of smaller current account deficits in the South…
· http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/09/focus-0
Interesting overview of the fate of some of the companies bought by Bain Capital while Mitt Romney was working there
· http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204331304577140850713493694.html
Even the US Treasury Department is now handing out infographics! AIG has been repaid
· http://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/Pages/aig-182-billion.aspx
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