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December 17th, 2009 admin

Macro Man isn’t sure that we learned much from the FOMC last night, but that doesn’t mean that markets have receded into a pre-Christmas stupor. It’s hard to know what the DGDF crowd was looking for…but whatever it was, they certainly didn’t get it. Cue the by-now predictable battery of stop losses from dollar shorts and, dare we speculate, initiation/expansion of dollar longs by the CTA community. In any event, one could argue that there was a significant development last night, via S&P’s downgrade of Greece and maintenance of a negative watch. Greece will soon be knocking on the door of the lower threshold of eligible ECB collateral; one doesn’t need a terribly vivid imagination …


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