Frontrunning: August 17

• Bulls on parade: Latest JPM Treasury client shows longs rose to 27% from 24%, shorts unchanged at 14% and neutral holdings fell to 59% from 62%
• Debt Virus Spreads During Make-Believe Recovery (Bloomberg)
• Ben should make banks lift savings interest rates (Post)
• Merkel to Stick With Cuts Despite Growth (FT)
• China tries to downplay signficance of July trade number: China's July trade surplus a rare case: expert (China Post)
• Japan govt to discuss stimulus steps Aug 20 (Reuters)
• Our thesis of a European slowdown coming to fruition: German Data Point to Slowdown (WSJ)
• Stellar German Recovery Masks Euro Zone Strains (Reuters)
• Australia, Korea Central Banks Harbor Doubts on Global Outlook (Bloomberg)
• Uncle Sam, Venture Capitalist: Meet the battery company that Obama visited yesterday (WSJ)
• US House Mortgage Arrears Mount (FT)
• Big Banks Loosen Lending Standards (WSJ)
• Fed Cracks Down on Mortgage-Lending Abuses (WSJ)
• Hello America: China's economy overtakes Japan's in real terms (Economist)
• Juveniles in charge: Beavis and Butt-head on the Potomac (Washington Times)

European Economic Statistics:

• UK CPI for July -0.2% MoM 3.1% YoY in line with expectation Consensus -0.2% MoM 3.1% YoY Previous 0.1% MoM 3.2% YoY
• UK Core CPI (YoY) for July 2.6% lower than expected Consensus 3.0% Previous 3.1%
• UK Retail Price Index for July 223.6 in line with expectation Consensus 223.6 Previous 224.1
• UK RPI for July -0.2% MoM 4.8% YoY in line and lower than expectation Consensus -0.2% MoM 4.9% YoY Previous 0.2% MoM 5.0% YoY
• UK RPI Ex Mort Int.Payments (YoY) for July 4.8% in line with expectation Consensus 4.8% Previous 5.0%
• Germany ZEW Survey (Econ. Sentiment) for August 14.0 lower than expected Consensus 20.0 Previous 21.2
• Germany ZEW Survey (Current Situation) for August 44.3 higher than expected Consensus 24.0 Previous 14.6

Comments

[snowball777]

Ben should make banks lift savings interest rates...

Re-tar-ded.

An awesome idea, if you want the only people who could possibly spend in this economy to do anything but.

[raygun]

not retarded, my retired mom lives off SS and interest on her CDs. The more interest she makes, the more she spends.

[hellboy]

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[Hephasteus]

That battery company must be to store all the electricity that is going to be generated from a proposed paneling of the entire light side of the moon beaming the electricity to earth using microwaves.

The bigger the idea the more need of servants to complete it. Everybody grab a stone saw, it's pyramid building time.

[nonclaim]

Like other O big gov projects this one should be a huge success,

[Young]

Bloombergs been posting som very good articles this week.

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