Austerity
Austerity – a Recipe for Disaster? Austerity is a policy decision made by deficit running governments to reduce public sector spending....
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Aug 5, 2015
Go East, Young Man: "Mr China", by Tim Clissold
China has been all the rage for a while now, for brokers and traders as well as for a whole raft of other western enterprises desperate...
geoffreysambrook
Jul 29, 2015
China – Equities and Commodities
Should we be seriously concerned about the recent gyrations in the Chinese equity markets? A huge (150% plus) rally, followed by a...
geoffreysambrook
Jul 22, 2015
Limit Up/Limit Down – Coming Soon to a Market Near You?
Recently, a rather strange rumour has begun to emerge – I’m not sure where from, originally – that the LME may need to think about...
geoffreysambrook
Jul 15, 2015
The Emperor has no Clothes
I worked for a while at a very, very blue-blooded investment bank. One of the highlights(?) was a regular attendance of the credit...
geoffreysambrook
Jul 8, 2015
Gamblers and Murderers
The threat of Greek default hangs over the Euro like Damocles’ sword, the Shanghai equity market has discovered gravity and the metals...
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Jul 1, 2015
Do We Heed Alarm Bells?
Last week, I wrote (in the ‘Metal Bulletin’) that I am always rather nervous of traders who tell that they have discovered a new – and...
geoffreysambrook
Jun 24, 2015
Teaching the Next Generation
It is a widely held view that metal trading is impossible to teach. After all, there is to my knowledge no school in it, nor university...
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Jun 17, 2015
Waiting for the Barbarians
Greek Literature was sitting staring out of a classroom window, while a middle-aged classics master wittered on to a bunch of schoolboys...
geoffreysambrook
Jun 10, 2015
The Sorcerers of Zug? The Glencore Share Price
I’m quite an admirer of Glencore. Regular readers will recall that a while ago, my colleague, Anthony Lipmann, wrote an article...
geoffreysambrook
Jun 3, 2015
Shareholders Bear the Pain
There’s an ongoing argument in financial theory about whether or not investors want the companies they invest in to pay dividends. One...
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May 26, 2015
Shaken not Stirred, Mr Engelhard
“Do you expect me to talk, Goldfinger?” “Talk, Mr Bond? No, I expect you to die.” Ever since I first discovered them in my early teens,...
geoffreysambrook
May 20, 2015
Scratching an Itch
LME Week, 2013, the CME announces it will launch an aluminium futures contract, aiming to take advantage of the LME’s troubles in...
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May 12, 2015
Pollsters and Forecasters
Spare a thought for the analysts and forecasters. I know I’m often critical, particularly when the modus operandi seems to involve...
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May 6, 2015
Ah, the General Election…..
Tomorrow, in the UK, there is a general election; I wrote something about it a couple of weeks ago, and I’d intended to leave it at that....
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Apr 29, 2015
QE, Debt Monetisation by Stealth
Quantitative easing, in central banking terminology, is the creation of currency by the repurchase of existing debt from the balance...
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Apr 22, 2015
The Magic Money Tree
There’s a general election coming up in the UK in a couple of weeks’ time, so I hope non-UK readers will forgive me writing a bit about...
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Apr 14, 2015
Hubs and Exploitation
Lee Kuan Yew, who died recently, was a pretty remarkable politician. He led Singapore first into and then out of the Malaysian Federation...
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Apr 8, 2015
Alice and the Wonderland Election
“Wooooo!!!” said Alice, “there’s going to be an election in Wonderland. What fun that’ll be! All those clever politicians setting out...
geoffreysambrook
Apr 1, 2015
Regulation, Financial Crisis and a Different Breed
My old boss in the 1990s was fond of telling us that regulation and transparency were a good thing for our business. It was slightly...
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