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Equities: Who are the largest sellers and buyers of order flow?
Alternatives: Which sectors saw the most private equity deals last year?
Rates: The aggregate duration of fixed-income markets keeps climbing, which will exacerbate losses if rates rise suddenly.
United Kingdom: The BoE told banks they have six months to get ready for negative rates, which are probably not coming.
Market-based probability of negative rates collapsed.
United States: Unit labor costs jumped, pointing to higher inflation ahead.
However, this increase in labor costs is exaggerated. Here is a comment from Andrew Husby, Economist at Bloomberg LP.
• … unit labor costs likely exaggerate aggregate cost pressures for the same reason as the productivity statistics, namely the pandemic’s severe impact on select industries.
• It also overstates the total degree of cost pressures facing businesses, as unit non-labor payments, which account for subsidies like those provided by the Paycheck Protection Program, fell markedly in the fourth quarter (-6.3%) and for the year as a whole (-4.1%).
Food For Thought: Super Bowl halftime performers:
Edited by Devon Lall
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