K's Analytical Musings

Stephen Gordon, on WCI, had a nice post exploring the JOLTS data coming out of the US ( Another view of the sluggish US labour market ). I ...

This post continues on the discussion of the degree to which CAD/USD is influenced by WTI, and is primarily meant to add some colour to the ...

Mike Moffat on WCI posted a "toy" model relating CAD/USD to the price of oil and interest rate differential between the U.S. and C...

This post was prompted by a post by Stephen Gordon on the Worthwhile Canadian Initiative discussing the Bank of Canada and the exchange rate...

The Canadian Dollar (CAD) has strengthened markedly against the US Dollar (USD) in the last decade rising from an average of CAD 0.64 per U...

There's been a spate of articles on Canadian banks this past week -- perhaps that's a sign to sell. But here's a look at the ma...

Vix is a pretty reliable indicator of whether equities are in an uptrend or a downtrend. In particular, when Vix is below its 20 dma, the m...

This is in response to a nifty put/call ratio analysis presented by the Financial Ninja . His analysis uses the CBOE put/call ratio and su...

Amazing picture which I have to repost from Alea's FRBNY: Domestic Open Market Operations during 2008

The Credit Default Swap indices have been improving this. Even with today's sell off, these indices appear to be heading south -- which...