Good morning. Cool chart on S&P sector weightings through time…
https://www.bespokepremium.com/think-big-blog/sp-500-sector-weightings/
…which makes you wonder when US discretionary will be the biggest out there
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/03/09/the-six-year-bull-market-in-five-charts/
A bit of (interesting) history on a period that looks a lot like the current period
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/03/09/2120134/jobs-automation-engels-pause-and-the-limits-of-history/
These charts are of all ages: there is always a refinancing issue somewhere in the future…..
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/03/china-s-local-government-debt
Interesting to see that the Swiss franc is close to surrendering all its gains versus the dollar
http://macro-man.blogspot.nl/2015/03/shhh-dont-look-now.html
And whilst on the subject of currencies: bitcoin is now a Chinese currency. Of sorts.
http://qz.com/359679/80-of-bitcoin-is-exchanged-into-and-out-of-chinese-yuan/
This looks interesting: real time growth.
http://blogs.ft.com/gavyndavies/2015/03/09/global-growth-report-card-world-activity-steady-as-us-slows/?
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