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Swiss Franc The Euro has risen by 0.34% to 1.1453 CHF. EUR/CHF and USD/CHF, September 28(see more posts on EUR/CHF, USD/CHF, ) Source: markets.ft.com - Click to enlarge FX Rates The US dollar is consolidating inside yesterday’s ranges against the euro and yen while extending its gains against sterling and the dollar-bloc currencies.  The sell-off in the US debt market continues to drag global yields higher.  The...

© Nik Frey | Dreamstime The UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index 2017 describes housing in Zurich and Geneva as only moderately overvalued. The two Swiss cities rank 6th (Geneva) and 9th (Zurich) in a list of 20 selected global cities. The top eight: Toronto, Stockholm, Munich, Vancouver, Sydney, London, Hong Kong and Amsterdam are all classified as bubble risk. Only Chicago is undervalued. Since 2012 apartment price are...

New Yorkers who wince every time they slip a $1,500 rent check under their super’s door should consider moving to Shanghai, or maybe Berlin. According to a new study published on RentCafe, $1,500 will buy you three times more space in Shanghai than in Los Angeles and twice as much in Frankfurt. Meanwhile, rents per square foot are five times higher in San Francisco than they are in Berlin. Rentcafe used data from the...

– Listen to Jesse Livermore and ignore the noise of short term market movements, central bank waffle and daily headlines  – Stock and bond markets are overvalued but continue to climb… for now– What goes up must come down and investors should diversify and rebalance portfolios despite market noise– Behavioural biases currently drive markets, prompting legendary investors to be confused and opt out– Lesson is to prepare...

The framing is a bit clumsy, but the latest data in favor of the artificial CNY surge comes to us from Bloomberg. The mainstream views currency flows as, well, flows of currency. That’s what makes their description so maladroit, and it can often lead to serious confusion. A little translation into the wholesale eurodollar reality, however, clears it up nicely. Demand for foreign exchange outstripped that for yuan for...

USD/CHF EUR/CHF EUR/CHF and USD/CHF, September 23(see more posts on EUR/CHF, USD/CHF, ) Source: markets.ft.com - Click to enlarge EUR/USD [embedded content] USD/JPY [embedded content] GBP/USD [embedded content] NZD/USD [embedded content] Related posts: FX Weekly Review, August 28 – September 02: The end of big euro rise? FX Weekly Review, June 26 – July 01:...

En 2013, puis en 2014 lorsque les questions du Taper et de la normalisation de la politique monétaire ont été évoquées, les grands noms de la Banque mondiale , les patrons de JP Morgan, Citi , Goldman se sont émus. Ils ont évoqué avec un bel ensemble le problème de la liquidité des marchés, en particulier obligataires. Ils l’ont évoquée pour se plaindre bien entendu de son insuffisance; les marchés sont trop étroits...

Swiss Franc The Euro has risen by 0.17% to 1.1441 CHF. EUR/CHF and USD/CHF, September 27(see more posts on EUR/CHF, USD/CHF, ) Source: markets.ft.com - Click to enlarge FX Rates The Federal Reserve may not be on a coordinated campaign to convince the markets of a pending rate hike as it did so effectively in late February and early March. But investors are getting the message. The Bloomberg calculation of the odds...

Watch executives are betting on growth in China (Keystone) - Click to enlarge The majority of Swiss watch executives surveyed by consulting firm Deloitte are positive about new rules requiring at least 60% of a watch’s manufactured costs to be incurred in Switzerland. According to the Deloitte Swiss Watch Industry Study 2017external link, released on Wednesday, 44% of 60 watch executives surveyed consider the new...

The FOMC is widely expected to vote in favor of reducing the system’s balance sheet this week. The possibility has been called historic and momentous, though it may be for reasons that aren’t very kind to these central bankers. Having started to swell almost ten years ago, it’s a big deal only in that after so much time here they still are having these kinds of discussions. My own view on the topic is the same as...