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@MrMBrown

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Senior Research Strategist @PepperstoneFX

City of London
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Michael Brown
3 years
I guess it's another day of finding a narrative to suit the price action
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Michael Brown
1 year
Goldman ripped up their 2023 f'casts last wk...JPM turned bullish EUR over the weekend...MS now doing the same...that year-ahead consensus lasted a grand total of 16 days...
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Michael Brown
2 years
No sanctions (yet). No action on energy. Not kicking Russia out of SWIFT. But, hey, they've lit up a building... EU, what a joke.
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Ursula von der Leyen
2 years
In these dark hours, tonight the colours of the Ukrainian flag shine bright on the @EU_Commission headquarters. A symbol of our solidarity. Friendship. And steadfast support. More than ever, the EU stands with Ukraine and its people.
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@jaswalia @FinancialTimes they're moving to St Paul's you clown
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Michael Brown
2 months
Warren Buffett's tribute to Charlie Munger
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Michael Brown
4 years
From LinkedIn...long or short lightning? 😂
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Michael Brown
2 years
Crypto adverts on the side of buses; what could possibly go wrong…
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Michael Brown
3 years
Because you sold before everyone else did? GOLDMAN SACHS CEO DAVID SOLOMON ON ARCHEGOS SITUATION SAYS "OUR RISK CONTROLS WORKED WELL" - CNBC INTERVIEW
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Michael Brown
3 years
"In the long term, Moderna aims to develop an annual supershot that could suppress numerous respiratory ailments, including Covid, flu, and others. 'Our goal is to give you several mRNAs in a single shot at your local CVS or GP every August or September'"
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Michael Brown
3 years
@thehill You’ve seriously tweeted this a second time?! It’s called bonfire night, look it up.
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Michael Brown
3 years
Ludicrous that after half a decade people are still trying to claim that negative rates are a good thing.
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European Central Bank
3 years
Watch again: President @Lagarde responds to criticism about negative interest rates and describes how they support companies and people in the eurozone
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Michael Brown
10 months
UK tax system has no incentive to save/invest at this point...income tax brackets frozen = more in higher bands thus lower tax free savings allowance...dividend allowance cut in half...CGT allowance too, and set to be halved again nxt yr...absolutely nonsensical policymaking...
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Michael Brown
9 months
5% rates is normal, ZIRP is not...the fact people still haven't figured that out is ludicrous
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Michael Brown
23 days
Erdogan is moonlighting as a JPM analyst
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Michael Brown
3 years
wtf have they been smoking!? TESLA INC, IN AN SEC FILING, SAYS EFFECTIVE AS OF MARCH 15, "TITLES OF ELON MUSK AND ZACH KIRKHORN HAVE CHANGED TO TECHNOKING OF TESLA AND MASTER OF COIN"
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Michael Brown
1 year
@DumboJohn1 Brown shoes too 🤦‍♂️
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Michael Brown
1 year
Faked AI images moving markets...welcome to the future... 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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Michael Brown
1 year
You just know Lagarde is going to make a mess of this...
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Michael Brown
1 year
NY Fed recession probability index at its highest since '82
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Michael Brown
4 years
Always nice when your laptop does an impression of a jumbo jet take-off while using Excel...
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Michael Brown
1 year
*US 2- TO 10-YEAR CURVE INVERSION REACHES NEW MULTIYEAR EXTREME
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Michael Brown
3 years
549,943 vaccine doses given in England yesterday, just shy of 1% of the entire population in a single day, we’re finally crushing this damn virus...a huge achievement by all involved!!
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Michael Brown
9 months
@RachelReevesMP How on earth were you ever employed by the Bank of England?
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Michael Brown
3 years
Technical analysis on inflation breakevens...do me a favour...
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Michael Brown
1 year
This should be a criminal offence.
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Michael Brown
1 year
"Jamie, it's Jay. I'm gonna need you to buy another bank for me..."
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Michael Brown
3 years
It really isn't.
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Michael Brown
2 months
I'm going max long Frankfurt tanning salons
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Michael Brown
3 years
The City is back. Bet against it at your peril.
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Michael Brown
1 year
6yrs done & dusted…onto the next thing…long weekend for me…cheers 🍻
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Michael Brown
3 years
That’s me done & dusted here for another week. Have a great long weekend all!! 🍻
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Michael Brown
2 months
*IPHONE SALES IN CHINA PLUNGE 24% AT START OF 2024: COUNTERPOINT
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Michael Brown
8 months
Got to be one of the most moronic things I've read in a long time
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Michael Brown
1 year
1-day JPY implied vol has gone absolutely berserk
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Michael Brown
4 years
Can't we just have a feature that auto-mutes idiotic central bankers...
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Neel Kashkari
4 years
Twitter should create an option of auto-muting all anonymous (coward) accounts. But that would kill-off much of fintwit I guess.
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Michael Brown
3 years
Why are we getting these as headlines ffs!? Who cares...
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Michael Brown
3 years
I just can't understand why the Elliott Wave folk didn't warn us about Archegos.
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Michael Brown
3 years
This is the opposite of how to tackle inflation…
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Stanley Pignal
3 years
French government is giving over 30m people a one-off €100 "inflation compensation" payment. Multi-billion euro giveaway that some people will get in early 2022, ahead of elections in April. Guess we will revisit those EU budget rules a but later then.
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Michael Brown
1 year
Pull the other one...
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Michael Brown
1 year
I asked AI to generate me a picture of a copycat and look what it came up with…
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Michael Brown
11 months
FT article on this morning's eurozone GDP...not one mention of the word "recession"...if the UK had 2 consecutive Qs of contraction, they'd be screaming about it on the front page...absolutely awful paper with shockingly low standards...
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Michael Brown
3 years
U.S. SMALL BUSINESS LABOR SHORTAGES, WAGE PRESSURES WORST IN 50 YEARS - BOFA
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Michael Brown
2 years
Pretty sure that’s Andrew Bailey (or a v good lookalike!) photobombing my snap of the shard this morning…
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Michael Brown
2 years
Cable below 1.08 in very early FX pricing…it’s gonna be another loooooooong week…
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Michael Brown
3 years
Electric scooters; ban them & destroy every damn one that has ever been made. Lethal things, disaster waiting to happen!
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Michael Brown
10 months
per Zoopla on UK housing...the crunch begins..."The number of homes hitting the market in May was 18% higher than the five-year average, while the number of buyers fell by 14% compared to the average" h/t @John_Stepek
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Michael Brown
5 months
Terribly sad news *BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY SAYS CHARLIE MUNGER HAS DIED
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Michael Brown
3 years
how it started how it‘s going
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Michael Brown
2 years
Early mornings made easier by sights like this.
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Michael Brown
3 years
@Schuldensuehner You should have your bloomie confiscated for using it for rubbish like this.
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Michael Brown
10 months
FX scammer spotted in the wild
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Michael Brown
3 years
Better view than staring at my screens all day...
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Michael Brown
8 months
Infuriates me when folk are rude to receptionists, security guards, etc…basic manners costs nowt…
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Michael Brown
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Michael Brown
1 year
That’s me done & dusted in front of the screens for 2022; what a 12 months it has been. Thanks for the many laughs, jokes, insights & debates through the year - it all makes this much more fun! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all! 🍻🎄
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Michael Brown
11 months
It’s clearly intern season again.
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Michael Brown
3 years
That’s me calling it a week, I’m done & dusted here for now. Have a great weekend all!! 🍻
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Michael Brown
11 months
Gilts trading like Liz & Kwasi are running the show again…
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Michael Brown
4 years
Bank, lunchtime, hardly a soul around.
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Michael Brown
3 years
That’s me done & dusted here for the week. Have a great weekend all!! 🍻
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Michael Brown
11 months
About 1.6mln UK mortgages fixed at rates under 2% set to end btwn now & Q3 24 according to BoE/ONS figures...that could get ugly quickly...
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Michael Brown
1 month
A long but rewarding two and a half years
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Michael Brown
3 years
Looking forward to going ‘back to school’ from September.
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Michael Brown
1 year
That was one hell of a week. Have a great weekend all!! 🍻
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Michael Brown
1 year
spoos...make or break time for the bulls...
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Michael Brown
2 years
That’s me done & dusted here for the week. Have a great weekend all!! 🍻
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Michael Brown
3 years
Spot on, Rishi. SPOT ON! "Rishi Sunak has told young people that going into the office can be “really beneficial” to their careers and warned that video conferencing was no substitute."
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Michael Brown
1 year
Talking in riddles now *LAGARDE: ANY DECISION IS THE FRUIT OF A COMPROMISE
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Michael Brown
8 months
30y fix @ 7%...you'd have to be insane...
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Michael Brown
3 years
Says the guy who's been waiting for the S&P to hit about 700 for a decade
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Michael Brown
4 years
@piersmorgan The R rate is more volatile and harder to estimate when case numbers are low. Stop stirring.
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Michael Brown
1 year
How the hell is someone as incompetent as this employed as a policymaker?! Give me strength. *BOE'S TENREYRO LOOSER MONETARY POLICY NEEDED TO MEET CPI GOAL *BOE'S TENREYRO SAYS IT'S A `MYTH' THAT QE IS MONEY PRINTING *BOE'S TENREYRO SAYS COULDN'T AVOID INFLATION SURGE
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Michael Brown
8 months
And you can bet this geezer certainly doesn't...
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Michael Brown
10 months
JPM - hard landing for UK economy "looks increasingly likely", baseline f'cast is for peak Bank Rate @ 5.75%, sees risk BoE may need to hike as far as 7% (!!!) if elevated wage growth continues to offset impact of rising mortgage ates
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Michael Brown
2 months
Happy Friday one & all
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Michael Brown
3 years
That’s me done & dusted for another week. Have a great weekend all!! 🍻
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Michael Brown
1 year
Inflation takes are getting ridiculous...currently reading a piece referencing "inflation ex-food, energy, goods, education, holidays & airfares" to justify why BoE might pause...basically, strip out everything you can until you get a figure that justifies your priors...
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Michael Brown
1 year
No signs of recession in the City.
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Michael Brown
6 months
The miracle of compounding… “$1 invested in U.S. large company stocks in 1824 was worth $16 million in Oct 2023 with dividends reinvested” (BofA)
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Michael Brown
1 year
This is just a bloody shambles...jobs market starting to soften, inflation sticky >10%, activity rolling over...BoE +25bp next month but Old Lady still itching to hit the pause button even tho no light @ end of tunnel...not sure how this is constructive for GBP m/t or l/t...
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Michael Brown
5 months
This is not a drill - Morgan Stanley's Mike Wilson turns bullish... "with Powell not pushing back on the easing in financial conditions, equities appear to have the green light to ramp higher"
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Michael Brown
1 year
Think BBC might want to revise their knowledge of flags a bit…
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Michael Brown
29 days
They’re going to roll dice rather than throwing darts blindfolded…
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Michael Brown
11 months
Haven't got a scooby... 🤷‍♂️
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Michael Brown
1 year
7mths running of CPI > 10%...9mths since we first broke the 10% mark...BoE can talk lagged policy effects & f'cast inflation falling as much as they like...but reality is they've failed at their sole job...this chart should be pinned on the wall of every office on Threadneedle St
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Michael Brown
1 month
Award for best FOMC wrap title goes to...
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Michael Brown
3 years
That’s me done & dusted here for another week. Have a great weekend all!! 🍻
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Michael Brown
2 years
ECB sources have come out to play again...why they can't say this damn stuff in the presser or statement is beyond me...yet they harp on about 'transparency' the entire time... 🙄
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Michael Brown
3 years
That’s me done & dusted for the week. Have a great weekend all!! 🍻
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Michael Brown
3 years
Deutsche raises 2021 UK GDP f'cast from +4.6% to +5.7%
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Michael Brown
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#Spursy *TOTTENHAM OWNER JOE LEWIS SURRENDERS ON INSIDER TRADING CHARGES
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Michael Brown
11 months
If BoE do nowt then core inflation will get worse…if BoE hike a little then it has no impact on inflation but dents growth…if BoE hike a lot then it has impact on inflation but kills economy…no good options & all a mess of their own incompetent making…
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Michael Brown
3 years
Jeremy Clarkson got it spot on when he described most of the people on this site - “Twitter now is just an opportunity for very left-wing people to express increasingly left-wing views to other left-wing people.”
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Michael Brown
1 year
Oh wow
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Michael Brown
2 years
People actually let her manage their money!? 😲🤡
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Michael Brown
2 years
No, it isn’t.
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Michael Brown
3 years
Get Boris on ‘Gogglebox’
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Michael Brown
11 months
Things you see in a bubble…
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Michael Brown
2 years
Worse than brown in town…sandals & a suit combo spotted on London Bridge…
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Michael Brown
7 months
*EY HIRED TO FIND BUYER FOR METRO BANK THIS WEEKEND: SOURCES
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Michael Brown
1 year
End of the week. End of the month. End of the quarter. Glad that’s all done & dusted. On to the next one we go… Have a great weekend all!! 🍻
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