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New Lows and a Dud IPO
We're testing all sorts of lows: record low for GT10 auction last week; GT30 yield, same level as Dec 2008; European banks are at same price level as 1987...so 25 years of gains wiped out; euro stocks same level as March 2009, so all the gains gone; U.S. safest and best place to be; China stocks at same level as 2006, since then the Chinese economy has doubled and; to cap it all we had an IPO that should never have happened. We're back in risk territory and markets don't want to extend or commit.
Christian W. Thwaites
President and CEO of Sentinel Asset Management, Inc.
Macro Hedge Funds Still Reducing Beta
The investable hedge fund composite index was down 1.10% month-to-date as of May 16, compared to down 5.23% for the S&P 500. CTA Advisors and Convertible Arbitrage performed the best, up 0.36% and 0.32%, respectively. Long/Short performed the worst, down 2.63%.
—Mary Ann Bartels, head of U.S> Technical Analysis
Will China Fire Up its Economy?
China wants the ability to manage a “stable decline” to “promote medium-to-long-term structural reforms” as well as avoid a hard landing.
—Frank Holmes, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, U.S. Global Investors
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