Hints and tips:
...Although Robert Kaplan, the Dallas Fed president, recently said the bill-buying was a derivative of QE and may be causing some QE-like effects for asset prices....
...Lou Crandall at Wrightson Icap notes: “While it is unclear whether there was much support for that notion in December, this seems like an approach that might be appealing to the Federal Open Market Committee...
...Quick Hits — What’s on the market radar When you need to pay the price — Here’s a great example as to why Italy worries plenty of banks and insurers via the FT’s Robert Smith....
...Louis Crandall, Wrightson Icap chief economist, said the Fed now appeared to be looking for openings to push ahead with tightening....
...One heavily symbolic photograph of UK heavy industry’s decline in the 1980s showed Margaret Thatcher, then prime minister, walking across the wasteland left by the demolition of the nearby Head Wrightson...
...Wrightson Icap estimates the net supply of Treasuries maturing in more than ten years will rise by more than $250bn, an increase of 30 per cent over the next 18 months if no changes are made to the Treasury...
...“There has been a merging of the boundaries in fashion,” says Robert Achten, Icebreaker’s design director. “There used to be quite distinct categories....
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