Recent Commentaries

Emotional Arbitrage

Towards the end of the 1987 movie classic Wall Street, as BlueStar Airlines stock was collapsing, a calm Bud Fox enters into the following telephone exchange with an emotional Gordon Gekko: Bud: "You once told me don’t get emotional about stock, Gordon. Don’t. The bid...

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Is the TWD a guiding light for Plaza 2.0?

Away from all the “we are in recession now” folks choking on their breakfast sandwiches just after Friday's strong payroll release, a sleepy currency pair was lurching onto the financial market center stage. The Taiwan dollar, which almost always trades in highly...

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