#FTSE MIB

Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog, “The Cost of Missing the Market Boom is Skyrocketing”, says a Bloomberg headline today. That must be the scariest headline I’ve seen in quite a while. For starters, it’s misleading, because people who ‘missed’ the boom haven’t lost

While in recent days Bridgewater has been in the news not for its investing acumen (or lack thereof), or the outspoken, contrarian views of its founder Ray Dalio, but rather the recent spirited attack by Jim Grant who in not so many words hinted, if not explicitly stated, that there is something

A quick glance at the soaring Italian stock market and one would have faith in the future of the euro, with Alitalia just a 'storm in a teacup'. However, bond traders are as worried about political uncertainty as ever with Italian bond risk surging to over 3 year highs. As Bloomberg reports,

We're gonna need more "whatever it takes"... Merkel is under election pressure in Germany as Bild reports German Social Democrats overtook CDU in new Insa poll.   Economic uncertainty is soaring...   and German sovereign risk has spiked to its highest since Brexit this last week...   And

While most of the world is enjoying it last day off from the 2017 holiday transition, with Asia's major markets closed for the New Year holiday, along with Britain and Switzerland in Europe and the US and Canada across the Atlantic, European stocks climbed to their highest levels in over a year on