“MM” Reports (Inc FI & FX) CS,JP,TD,CB – 03 Jan13

Some of the institutions issued new reports as of Friday. Many firm’s research desks have remained closed until tomorrow or in some cases Tuesday. Here are the latest reports for the first complete week back in the new year 2014. Here the outstanding ‘mm’ report from CS to kick things off. cs-mm2-23-12-13 Here from JP …

Commodity Outlooks SC,ANZ,D,MG,JLT – 2014

Its been a wonderful holiday season but its time again to get back down to work. As the first post for 2014 lets start with the great under performer of the last few years. Namely commodities! SC-Commodites-2014 ANZ-Commoditiesoutlook14 D-miningoutlook14 Mcguarie-agri-outlook14 LBMA-Outlook14 And here some geopolitical outlook for 2014 which, depending on what occurs, can affect …

2014 Outlooks – “MM” Technical Analysis. ML,CS,BS,Citi,SB,HS,JL,WF

Last post for 2013. What a wonderful year it has been for trend followers.Hedge funds have generally had a dismal year. One quote from a hedge fund manager summed up the situation nicely. “All you had to do this year was go long a major US index and go focus on your golf swing”. Yes …

JP Commodities 2014 Outlook – “Tapering is Bullish, not Bearish, for Commodity Markets”

2013 has been a dismal year for commodity bugs and especially the gold bugs. But cyclically wise commodities usually rise toward the end of a recovery period in asset prices. They are the laggards to the move so commodity bugs it could be time to wake up to these themes again. Rising interest rates have …

“The New Great Game” Thunder Road Dec2013

I very pleased to bring you the latest, hugely insightful, multi market macro report, namely, the Thunder Road Report. During this festive holiday period its a perfect time for some reflection on the macro and how this feed into our macro and micro allocations for the coming year. A very timely release therefore. Thunder Road’s …

2014 Outlooks – CS, SC, ML..

Macro wise, very high correlation in allocations and perspectives across the majors which represents a high risk to asset markets. If we do hit unexpected problems, volatility could spike up in 2014 due to this herding phenomena, be warned. There is little or no downside risks priced into this market on a macro level. CS-GlobalEquity-2014 …

Xmas Weekly Technical Update – “Santa’s Rally Sustains” 24th Dec13

A very brief Christmas technical update as the US markets soar to new all time record highs capping a wonderful year for speculators and investors alike. 2013 has conformed perfectly to second half of December strong positive seasonal period. Some call it ‘window dressing’ and some call it Santa’s Rally. For whatever reason we have …

Weekly Technical Analysis – “Mid Dec Buying Setup” 17th Dec13

Its that time of the week for the usual technical update across the major asset markets. The Swiss team stick to their bullish theme of forecasting a likely near term bottom for the US indexes and a buying opportunity therefore. They also stick to their medium term view that a deeper Q1 2014 7 to …

Weekly “MM” Reports – Barcap,MS,CS,DanskeB 13 Dec13

Here below some of the latest multi market “mm” reports issued late last week and some from close of business Friday. barcap-mmwklytech-12-12-13 cs-macrostrat-11-12-13 CSwealth-mmwkly-13-12-13 cs-wklymm-11-12-13 CS-mmwkly-13-12-13 Danske-mmwkly-13-12-13 MSwealth-dec13 I stated last week that i would be more bearish than i am at present in terms of allocations and weightings if it wasn’t for the positive …