17 ordspråk av Mark Cliffe
Mark Cliffe
As we go into the new year, we have to ask ourselves: 'Can this growth continue, and what is going to happen with Iraq?'
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For most people in financial markets, this is typically put in a box labeled 'too difficult'. There's just no sensible way of producing a systematic probability of the outcomes and it's very hard to put numbers or values on it.
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For the last three or four years there has been a gradual reduction of staffing on foreign exchange desks for doing these intra-European trades partly because the volume has declined,
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Generally we're looking pretty quiet - one of our traders just told me it's one of the quietest days he's ever seen.
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His reputation as an arch-dove on inflation is rather misleading.
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I don't think anybody expects them to move on rates given their recent rhetoric.
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I think he's going to lean towards indicating that the Fed isn't in a hurry to raise rates,
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I think he's still concerned to keep the stock market afloat and to hold down bond yields. He's going to be more inclined to talk the markets up rather than down.
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I think most of the staffing implications have already been taken on board. It has been happening gradually over a period of time.
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I think the market is in a dangerous position,
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I think the market is in a dangerous position. It has gone a long way toward pricing out a [Fed] rate increase, and that does leave you vulnerable if data comes out pointing to inflation.
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Ireland is just too successful, that's the problem, ... Ireland is seen as too expansionary given the current inflationary environment.
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Ireland is just too successful, that's the problem. Ireland is seen as too expansionary given the current inflationary environment.
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It certainly looks rather more realistic than it did before the release of these figures.
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Markets want to hear some kind of hint that they'll back up these words with action, specifically intervention in foreign exchanges to drive the euro higher,
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