It’s too late on a Friday to even try to begin to explain.But news comes to us of “gold backwardation” and quite a startling opposite effect in silver.The...
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Editorial: Protecting Privacy
Every time we visit a website, our personal information is in the hands of web publishers and advertisers. While both Europe and the US push for data tracking protections, there are some benefits of personalised advertisements.
As the FT’s editor...
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Former Nomura fund chairman fingers Nomura Asset Management to the SEC
It’s a bit of an odd one this. So here’s a straight story to start:——- Nomura Asset Management USA, the American offshoot of the Japanese bank’s asset management business,...
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Repo curve inversion?
We’re not sure how significant this is, but the US repo curve appears to have inverted.Looking at the historical data it seems not for the first time in the last year either....
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The far future of Europe’s fiscal crisis
It’s summer, the Sun is high in the sky… and the European sovereign stress is low.But that hasn’t stopped Barclays Capital looking for glimpses in the crystal ball....
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US GDP comes in below consensus at 2.4 per cent
US GDP grew at an annualised rate of 2.4 per cent in the second quarter, according to Commerce Department data released on Friday. From the release:Real gross domestic product —...
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How Dodd-Frank travels – all the way to Canadian ABCP
DBRS’s Andrew Fitzpatrick has a wonderfully understated way of putting things:. . . it would be something between ironic and sad if the best-laid plans of the Montréal Accord,...
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UBS ponders the UK’s quiet CPI calibration
Is Britain’s government quietly working on a(nother) CPI/RPI change?Back in May, the new UK chancellor George Osborne suggested to Mervyn King that he would “welcome”...
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Markets Live transcript 30 Jul 2010
Markets Live chat transcript for the chat ending at 11:13 on 30 Jul 2010. Participants in this chat were: Miles Johnson, FT Izabella Kaminska, FT Joseph Cotterill MJ Hello...
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A humpy US curve
FT Alphaville reported on Wednesday that the US 10-year Treasury swap spread was back in negative territory.But rather than looking at the historical spread for clues as to what’s going on,...
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