Good morning. Bonds appear to have even more lives than cats…
http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2013/4/5/10-year-treasury-yield-breaks-uptrend.html

‘Portugal bailout blown off course’ Take of one ‘f’ and add a comma and this title gets a different meaning…
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/3d1c3a10-9ed9-11e2-b813-00144feabdc0.html

As always, what did you miss out on last week? Best of the Week

https://lukasdaalder.com/2013/04/05/best-in-economics-this-week-april-5/

Sell in May? WRONG!! Sell in April is the new Sell in May!
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052748704882404578390611041748992.html

And this might be a good reason to do so… (or keep your cool: there are numerous other measures that show that stocks are cheap)

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-05/stocks-are-not-cheap

Nice one: what do the Alcoa Q1 results tell us about the rest of the earnings season (if anything?)

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-predictive-power-of-alcoas-earnings-2013-4

Very cool tool called ‘stash your cash’. An interactive tool for hiding your money! (not really)

http://www.icij.org/offshore/interactive-stash-your-cash

Know your Chinese region

http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/04/08/chart-of-the-week-chinas-uneven-growth/

De-industrialisation is a common feature…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-06/be-careful-what-you-wish-why-re-industrialization-america-bad-stocks

The reason why China’s stocks are doing so poorly? Because everyone is switching to Japan! (or so the argument goes)

http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/04/05/are-investors-selling-china-to-buy-japan/

Still a very good way to show which parts of the US labour market have recovered so far

http://macroblog.typepad.com/macroblog/2013/04/labor-market-update-muddy-waters-continue-to-run-deep.html

And the schedules for the week to come
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/04/schedule-for-week-of-april-7th.html
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/04/07/the-week-ahead-april-8-12/

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