A Convoluted Picture
January 26th, 2010 admin
Man, it was all looking pretty good there for a while. Futures were up (courtesy of the new Monday effect , which funnily enough is the opposite of the old Monday effect ), the Greek book-build went well, and AAPL earnings blew expectations out of the water. It was almost enough to make Macro Man forget the torch-and-pitchfork-carrying mob…. Well, not really. The Monday bounce was perhaps inevitable, or at least likely, after two strong down days at the end of last week. The Greek news was positive on the face of it yesterday- demand for the new 5 year issue reached more than €20 billion, with the authorities deciding to raise the issue size from €3 -€5 billion …
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