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Good morning. The newest trend: data reports (like friday’s payroll report) are getting ‘leaked’. 0.17 seconds before the official release to be precise….
http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/weird-unsettling-graph-of-the-day/

 

 

As the Japanese stock markets collapsed, so did priced in inflation…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-09/japans-ruling-ldp-party-joins-jgbi-market-fears-abenomics-could-fail

 

Last week’s recap: always a good place to start the new week…

https://lukasdaalder.com/2013/06/07/best-in-economics-this-week-june-7/

 

 

Intriguing chart on the possible relationship between aging and inflation… Don’t get fooled by the 5 outliers though…

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/06/banzai-banzai-banzai/

 

More evidence of the Chinese growth slowdown…: exports and lending weaken

http://www.businessinsider.com/china-may-data-in-one-chart-2013-6
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/business/global/chinas-export-growth-slows-amid-concern-of-slowdown.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/09/us-china-economy-idUSBRE9580GE20130609

 

Emerging Markets with weak currencies have generally been hit by bigger corrections in the bond market

http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/06/07/em-currencies-judgement-days/

 

The question is being addressed whether the US is on the brink of a recession…

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-four-official-economic-indicators-2013-6

 

The story of stock markets in 2013 so far…

http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2013/6/7/2013-country-stock-market-returns.html

 

Temporary jobs have reached the previous high in the US. Quite unlike the total payroll number…

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/06/temporary-help-services-reach-record-high/

 

Cool chart showing the change in real commodity prices taking 1950 as starting point

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/06/daily-chart-3

 

Hard to believe that there were only 89 beer brewers in the US in the late seventies!

http://www.businessinsider.com/brewery-chart-2013-6

 

 

And this week’s schedules
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/06/09/the-week-ahead-june-10-15/
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/06/schedule-for-week-of-june-9th.html

 

 

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