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June 17, 2023

Move Along, nothing to see

by Simon Phillips in Blog

“Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about other people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.” – Lao Tzu Serious disclaimer upfront: personal serenity, peace between the ears and any existing meditative state maintenance is your own responsibility […]

January 16, 2020

THE CRESCENT THREAT

by Simon Phillips in Blog

Well, welcome to a new decade! What a start, no shortage of market moving news to distract the best laid holiday plans. So far, Australia begins to count the cost of fire disasters as the Middle East (ME) looked like firing up and, this week, we’ve had, what seems like, the 12th US/China trade deal in […]

December 16, 2019

REPOCALYPSE 2019

by Simon Phillips in Blog

As big as the win last week was for “Brexit”, as small as the “huge” Trump trade deal is, no news of the last week *Trumps* the gargantuan US Fed promise of 500BILLION to a frozen short term REPO money market over the next few weeks, just to keep the engine running and stock markets […]

August 28, 2019

TWEET TWEET

by Simon Phillips in Blog

It’s fair to say that last weekend’s POTUS Tweetfest was unhelpful to a rapidly deteriorating Global Economy. For those who missed it, here’s a summary below, courtesy of Zerohedge: “Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole speech was supposed to be the most important event of an otherwise sleepy, August day, after which traders could quietly exit for […]

February 11, 2019

SHIFTING PLATES

by Simon Phillips in Blog

Nothing lifts the animal spirits of markets quite like the smell of fresh rounds of central money printing, to go with the central banks that never stopped. The US Fed’s reversal in late January, (combined with intense early January jawboning from US Treasury Secretary and President to buy all the things) was sudden, and stunned […]

August 26, 2017

CHARTFEST

by Simon Phillips in Blog

You’ll be pleased to hear that today’s note is heavy on pictures and light on dribble/rant words. On the back of the recent US Fed inflation modelling “confusion” (going one way then the other) it’s high time to let the pictures be provocateur! The “pictures” are a little global focused so we’ll quickly join the dots back […]

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Move Along, nothing to see

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