Category: economics
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Macro-micro of the housing and construction sector
For anyone tracking markets for more than a decade, knows for sure what happens when interest rates start rising. Recession is one of the final outcomes of the slowdown witnessed in various industries and sectors. While, manufacturing, services do see significant drop in their productivity, the final nail in the coffin is in the construction…
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Inflation-Employment conundrum: Is productivity to be blamed for?
Inflation is not just about the demand of the goods and services being produced, but is also about the supply of those goods and services. Supply, while it is about how many of those actual products are being produced, that quantity depends on the productivity of the labor and the processes involved. While there are…
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Welcome to refreshing version of MacroMicro
Thrilled to be back!
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Markets update: Shaky short term, hazy long term
Three weeks ago I had this post about the long term bullishness (Did we see it wrong all the while?) with a different perspective on the market. In that post I had hoped for some clawback in the YM after a relentless rally. That clawback is here and seems to have helped getting us the…
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Markets: The what if and the probabilities
What if the Covid rally was a bigger breakout and the crash this year was only a backtest of this breakout?
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Macro update: The ‘known unknowns’ and the ‘bad news is not bad news’ paradox.
Russia Ukraine war – going on but markets won’t care less. European energy crisis – came and gone. UK pension crisis – fizzled away. The bad news ain’t worse news anymore! All that bad news that seemed end of the world for markets, didn’t result in what the bears would have otherwise wanted it to…
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Weekly markets update: No man’s, bulls’, bears’ land
Before I start with the technical update for the markets, here’s some anecdotes from my visit at the Bloomberg Invests’ NYC event:
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BOJ, BOE.. did they pivot?
Is it THE pivot? Hell no and it better not be! Because what lies ahead would be far more worse!
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