When Defensive Assets Stop Working
What if I told you there was a bubble but it wasn't in risk assets? What if I told you that the assets most investors look to for safety...
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Callum Thomas
Dec 5, 20182 min read
Top 5 Charts of the Week: China, Global Trade, Reflation, and Asian FX
Here's some of the standout economic and markets charts on my radar. I aim to pick a good mix of charts covering key global macro trends,...
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Topdown Charts
Nov 21, 20181 min read
VIDEO: Top 5 Charts of the Week
In this video we run through the free weekly email newsletter "The Top 5 Charts of the Week" and add a bit of extra comments and context....
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Callum Thomas
Nov 21, 20181 min read
Chart Of The Week: Politics, Policy, And The Chinese Bear Market
Policy and politics are issues that have great impact on the risk/return outlook across markets and geographies, but I think it's fair to...
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Callum Thomas
Nov 5, 20182 min read
Economic Policy Uncertainty and Global Equities
It seems over the past few years the only certainty has been rising uncertainty, and the folk at Economic Policy Uncertainty have a set...
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Topdown Charts
Sep 13, 20181 min read
VIDEO: Top 5 Charts of the Week
In this video we run through the free weekly email newsletter "The Top 5 Charts of the Week" and add a bit of extra comments and context....
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Callum Thomas
Sep 10, 20181 min read
Chart: Global Equity Volatility vs Economic Policy Uncertainty
Economic policy uncertainty, and political risk in general has basically been a constant over the past few years. In more recent times...
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Callum Thomas
Aug 10, 20181 min read
Chart: Policy Uncertainty Surges in China
Every now and then you come across a chart that makes you do a double take, and I think this is one of those. It shows the "Economic...
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Callum Thomas
Jun 10, 20181 min read
Chart: Eurozone Credit Risk Pricing
This chart of Eurozone credit risk pricing attracted a lot of interest when I originally posted it, and it remains extremely topical, so...
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Topdown Charts
Jun 5, 20181 min read
VIDEO: Top 5 Charts of the Week
In this video we run through the free weekly email newsletter "The Top 5 Charts of the Week" and add a bit of extra comments and context....
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Callum Thomas
Jun 4, 20182 min read
Chart Of The Week: Eurozone Credit Risk
This week it's a look at credit risk pricing in the Eurozone. This is a chart I've been using a lot in recent months, of course as of the...
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Callum Thomas
May 29, 20182 min read
A Key Driver of Bond Yields: Governance
Through the cycle a lot of factors push and pull bond yields around, but as I was doing some research on governance rankings across...
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Callum Thomas
Dec 11, 20172 min read
Expect more volatility?
Globally equity volatility is low. For that matter, volatility (both implied and realized) is low across the major asset classes. But...
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Topdown Charts
Dec 10, 20172 min read
Weekly Macro Themes - 8 Dec 2017
Here's a brief preview of the topics and charts covered in the latest edition of the Weekly Macro Themes report. To read more and see the...
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Callum Thomas
Sep 8, 20171 min read
ChartBrief 144 - Global policy uncertainty peaks and volatility troughs
A curious couple of trends are underway on the global stage. Global economic policy uncertainty appears to have peaked at an all time...
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Callum Thomas
Aug 15, 20172 min read
ChartBrief 129 - The thing about Trump and North Korea...
After a crazy week the risk of a nuclear war has seemingly receded with the announcement by North Korea that its planned missile strike...
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Callum Thomas
Jun 15, 20172 min read
ChartBrief 85 - Are we all wrong about volatility?
A number of commentators have pointed out the divergence between economic policy uncertainty indexes and the VIX or equity volatility. ...
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Topdown Charts
Apr 21, 20171 min read
Weekly Macro Themes - 21 Apr 2017
Here's a brief preview of the topics and charts covered in the latest Weekly Macro Themes report. To read more and see the charts just...
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Topdown Charts
Apr 13, 20171 min read
Weekly Macro Themes - 13 Apr 2017
Here's a brief preview of the topics and charts covered in the latest Weekly Macro Themes report. To read more and see the charts just...
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Callum Thomas
Dec 11, 20162 min read
ChartBrief #36 Peak Political Risk?
2016 was the year of political risk. From Trump to Brexit, China's ongoing economic and political transitions, India's demonetisation,...
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