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"Data received this week were strong, on balance, and boosted our Q2 GDP tracking estimate by a cumulative three-tenths, to 5.3%."

With many traders on vacation, the algos will be kept busy with a busy weekly slate, with the global PMIs due out on Tuesday, the ECB meeting on Thursday, US Q2 GDP on Friday and corporate earnings releases peaking.

"Large moves are becoming more common: 2017 was remarkable. Despite low levels of volatility that made the bar for a large move relatively low, few occurred. 2018 is very different."

It's damage control time.

"We think this is a very real threat because trade tensions are hard to resolve when the goal is to rebalance economic power."

"One cause for concern is that renewed monetary easing by the world’s central banks might rekindle a fear of competitive currency devaluations, as it did in 2015 and early 2016."

They're calling it a "user fee...Let's call it for what it is... it's another tax..."

What's the difference between dog and goat? The answer is the economy.

"That’s why they all are billionaires and all got elected president. .."

China is responding to Trump's trade war with a currency war of its own.

"U.S. equities at five-month highs, gold at one-year lows, the yen at five-month lows and Treasuries having their tightest yield range in almost 20 years on the week that tariffs were implemented. Where’s the risk aversion and the panic?"

China's central bank will directly fund banks with ultra cheap liquidity, with one simple instruction: "increase bank lending and bond purchases."

"You want to be careful to walk on this path because it might not be so easy to get off it."

Turkey issued a key challenge to its NATO "puggybank" ally the United States today, when a Turkish court ruled to keep imprisoned US Pastor Andrew Burnson in jail, quashing speculation that he would be released after a hearing on Wednesday.

Global stock markets were firmer on Wednesday, supported by Tuesday's euphoric tone when not even the Netflix debacle could hold back the Nasdaq from hitting a new all time high.

... the gap between Britain’s traditional and crypto economies will “lessen and eventually disappear” within the next few years.

"Assange is a courageous and fearless publisher who is being persecuted for exposing the crimes of the corporate state and imperialism. His defense is the cutting edge of the fight against government suppression of our most important and fundamental democratic rights."

The CFA Institute is adding topics on cryptocurrencies and blockchain to its Level I and II curriculums for the first time next year.

Steve Cohen's Point72 is back to its old winning ways,