Good morning. Another month is almost finished. Let’s just pre-empt on the performance year to date

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/04/29/2128113/in-which-the-shanghai-composite-lords-it-over-the-rest-and-allows-for-some-handy-listings/

Mmmmmm. So…. It is all to blame on the unions!! 🙂 (via @went1955)

http://www.oneworld.nl/blog/de-week-tweets/de-week-van-went-tweets-55

Polling Wall Street…

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/04/polling-wall-street/

Ben Bernanke is not much in favour of a Taylor rule (although I think Taylor just observed that it was central banks acting like that)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/ben-bernanke/posts/2015/04/28-taylor-rule-monetary-policy

A bit of analyses on that weak Q1 report of the US economy

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/04/29/2128140/another-winter-of-discontent/

Some more thoughts on why we should not worry about the weak capex spending

http://humblestudentofthemarkets.blogspot.nl/2015/04/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love.html

Yesterday we had the IMF on Sub Saharan Africa, today something on Latin America

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/car042915a.htm

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