Germany Shifts to the Left Despite Retiring Merkel's Stratospheric Poll Numbers
Germany has shifted mainstream left, with SPD & Greens the big winners (gaining 11pp higher share of the vote), and extremist AfD and Die Linke...
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This Week in Macro: NFP, BOJ, EZ GDP - Short UST/JGB, Long Argie/Turkey, US Midterm Tail Risk Trades
Our guide to this week’s global macro risk events and trading opportunities. This week in trade ideas: Initiate strategic short 10yr USTs and JGBs...
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Angela Merkel: Besieged and Cornered
Besieged by opponents on both sides of the Atlantic, and now within her own CDU/CSU/SPD alliance, Angela Merkel looks unlikely to be able to obtain...
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Trump's Upside-Down Trade Policy Wrecks Alliances & Makes US "Adversaries" Smile, but He Has a Point
Trump's idea that "trade wars are easy to win" is true only in one narrow sense: the US, having the economy with the largest trade deficit, has...
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Germany Finally Abandons Fiscal Austerity: Good for Growth, Bad for Bonds
The six-month period of post-election uncertainty in Germany is close to ending, after the conservative CDU/CSU bloc secured a coalition deal this...
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