Good morning. Brilliant way to show where the party’s at! (via @went1955)
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/07/asia_population_circle.html

This is old, but man, it is cool as well! 220 years of growth…

http://www.businessinsider.com/lacy-hunt-mauldin-presentation-2013-5

If you do not know what the Bakken is, that’s the North Dokota shale gas boom area… (via alphaville)

http://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications_papers/pub_display.cfm

Interesting chart on the past performance of the Nikkei during solid strats of the year.

http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2013/5/7/land-of-the-rising-stock-market.html

The length between US recessions appears to show that wars and rising debt can work wonders (at least for some time)

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-07/guest-post-debunking-keynesian-policy-framework-myth-magic-pendulum

“NYSE margin debt raises eyebrows” Thought you lot should know as well…

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/05/06/nyse-margin-debt-raises-eyebrows/

US Senior Loan Officers’ survey shows that the US banking sector is recovering further

http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/snloansurvey/201305/fullreport.pdf

Remarkable seasonal pattern in the gasoline prices in the US. It is only partly linked to the world oil markets…

http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2013/5/7/some-modest-relief-at-the-pump.html

Interesting thoughts on what a negative deposit rate could mean for Euro-area banks

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/05/07/1488492/what-the-danish-negative-rate-experience-tells-us/

The regional economic outlook from the IMF on the Western Hemisphere

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/reo/2013/whd/eng/pdf/wreo0513.pdf

Here we go again: research into assets and liabilities from households. I vaguely recall a lot of controversy on an ECB study, last month…

http://www.bancaditalia.it/pubblicazioni/econo/quest_ecofin_2/qef160/QEF_160.pdf

There is nothing wrong wit a little bit of dating mining from time to time. Tuesdays are the days to be long. (this year… so far….)

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-07/your-sp-your-sp-without-tuesdays

And to top it off, three charts on buying and selling among certain investor groups: hedge funds…

…institutional companies…

…and private clients. With most of them selling, why do stocks move higher?

http://www.businessinsider.com/bofa-clients-selling-rally-for-weeks-2013-5

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