Re: Pearls of analyst wisdom

[AndyM]

Putting a positive gloss on things department:



'The Tuna Macro average on HedgeFund.net...is up -0.57% YTD'

[Rookie_Quant]

"...have adjusted our ratings to short term outperform, long term underperform..."

[jungle]

a "one time shocklet".



so now we have caplets, wavelets, buy-to-lets and shocklets...

[jungle]

"With inflation low and short-term interest rates rising, we remain bullish on the [b]highest quality asset[/b] in the world – the US Treasury Bond."



from ML.

[kr]

this from a loan desk:





The loan trading elves have been working hard the last few days to come up with some holiday bargins for your finest accounts. Here they are:







ahem... bargains?  didn't you say 'bargains'?

[Anthis]

[i]With inflation low and short-term interest rates rising, we remain bullish on the [b]highest quality asset[/b] in the world – the US Treasury Bond."[/i]


[i]from ML.[/i]



[i][/i] 



Come on, I cant believe it!!!!



How much this person is getting paid to entertain people? Tongue out

[tripitaka]

some technical analyst (paraphrasing) :



when bond vol. is at a low, and remains low, analysis shows that a big move usually follows. Low vol. doesn't signal which direction the move will be...



so when vol is low, and stays low, it will be low until vol goes higher...interesting...

[jungle]

"bonds will only fall in value if investors decide to sell them".



from a JP morgan strategy piece this week. Smiley

[nsande]

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[AndyM]

From Bloomberg (I find Bloomberg columnists, with the exception of Michael Lewis and Caroline Baum, to be a particularly poor bunch):



'It's widely expected that a yuan revaluation will result in a stronger Chinese currency'



Thank you, William Pesek Jr.