RBNZ OCR announcement out tomorrow
Good time to have your finger ready on some trading strategies to take advantage of NZ's relatively high (compared the rest of the West) interest rate.
Good time to have your finger ready on some trading strategies to take advantage of NZ's relatively high (compared the rest of the West) interest rate.
Found a nifty tool today that lets you download macro data sets directly into excel. There are loads of stats, such as the PPI, GDP and breakdowns of many stats into their component parts.
Anyone know the difference between extrinsic and exogenous?
After my recent visit to Ukraine for a few days, it gave me a chance to visit the country with a bit of a fresh look. After the mountains of cases that you tend to read at b-school, it makes you more inquisitive and questioning of what goes on around you at least from an economic and financial standpoint.
The world needs to hear my internal monologue. He's really good to talk to
It's high time I wrote a blog update. Especially since there's heaps to write about after being in Saudi for a week. The last few weeks have been pretty low key on the work front. Every now and then there'll be a big spurt of travel - Mallorca for a couple of days, Rome, Paris and London. These places are all repeats (except Mallorca), so while I'm not tired of the Eurowandering yet, it's not as interesting as going somewhere new. Most of Europe all seems the same - the churches, cobbled streets, closed shops on Sundays and bad weather. To conceptualise what a European town or city looks like, I take Frankfurt to be the perfect example. There's snow, nothing to do on Sunday apart from the gym or shag the missus. People will tell me to appreciate what's different about the place. That's like these telling me that having a baby is a wonderful experience and that every day is "difference". I'm sorry, but I just don't get it. A lot of these places just seem like people holders. When was the last time you heard of someone going to Luxembourg for a dirty weekend away.
I had to head down to Dubai the week before last. Those religiously aware types may know that it was Ramadan. My collegue/buddy who arranged the trip down there apologist profusely for organising a trip during the Islamic fasting time. Ramadan lasts for about 40 days and if you observe it, it forbids you from doing a whole bunch of stuff between sunrise and sunset. To make sure you follow the social mores, the hotel I was staying at passed a memo under my door giving me the lowdown.