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Can we really reconcile the expectations flooding the market this week with key fundamental data we’ve got our hands on? I sure can’t. Can you?

Risk tolerance in global capitals markets was the theme throughout yesterday. Higher yielding assets and currencies like the AUD, EUR, GBP benefited from the market participants’ huge appetite. Shall we see the same scenario today?

We do our best to build alternative plausible scenarios that are in competition to our current trading positions; we say our best because we know by virtue of taking a position, the bias already exists.

The recent USD rallies have left investors hungry for risk… and it looks like they’ve had their fill yesterday! Find out why on today’s economic round-up.

“Here we are folks, days away from the next round of the mega-fight between Japan and the ‘dreaded recession’…”

First-quarter earnings season, characterized by low-ball estimates and less-bad-than-expected results, helped drive a sharp rally in stock markets and risk appetite.

Risk tolerance on shaky ground. Currency pairs go into range bound motion as we enter the doldrums of summer.

If you’ve followed the newsletter crowd much at all, many love to talk about the dollar, but few really risk their well-being trying to make money for real people trading it (it’s a beautiful thing being a guru with impunity).

Good day ladies and gentlemen! It’s the beginning of a brand new trading week and we all know what that means… more economic round-ups from me! It looks like concerns of a double-bottom recession are beginning to surface and

China is dead in the water without exports. They are in panic mode. That is why they are flooding their economy with massive amounts of capital and suppressing any hint of decent everywhere.

TGIF!!! It has been a pretty rough week as we saw several one-way daily moves. Should this roller coaster of a market take a pause today? Maybe not as several top tier reports are still due in Canada and the US.

Once upon a time, eight great kingdoms decided to join forces in the battle against the global recession in 1973. They called themselves the “Great 8” or G8 – presumably using the word “great” to signify their status as world leaders. Now that the world is in the throes of the worst post-war global recession, how will the G8 fight its way out?

It’s Thursday, the currencies are retracing again so we figured what better time than now to throw together some random thoughts on the markets, news and whatever else. Enjoy!

Increased demand for safe-haven currencies caused quite a ruckus yesterday. Will the majors suffer the same fate today or will they take a breather? Check out today’s economic roundup to find out!

Above is the yield curve. Notice how far rates in the low-end (left side) of the curve have fallen. This is good for banks but likely bad for us who want to borrow and not too good for those who depend on deposits for income.

Dollar domination! Risk aversion gaining momentum – time to run for cover? The G8 meeting will commence today – sentiment changing or a non-event?

Climate change — it’s taken on a meaning beyond the literal. It is “global warming” … it is carbon emissions … it is saving the planet … it is ridiculous.

Gooday Mates! How’s every one doing? I just got back from some kangaroo riding in the Outback and checking out the economic landscape in the Land Down Under. The Outback is a vision as always, but how are the Aussies faring in this global economy?

Liquidity was back in full swing in the market yesterday… With the exception of the JPY, we saw most pairs trade side ways. So, what’s today’s economic calendar got in store for us? Check it out!

The BRIC countries which include Brazil, Russia, India, and China are talked about as if they are some monolithic grouping that will carry the world out of the great depression we seem to be now mired.