A key point was absent from the mind of Societe Generale’s Albert Edwards as he was in Japan considering China’s first quarter gross domestic product numbers. He points out in a report titled “Finally! The yen breaks 30-year support – a new round of currency turmoil begins,” that the oddity of quantitative easing in Japan and currency markets that are starting to move. Albert Edwards: Confession is GDP deflator in China showing deflation Albert Edwards had “a confession to make,” he wrote in the June 2 cross asset research report. When China’s first quarter GDP came out he didn’t initially catch…
Albert Edwards: China Deflating; Japanese Yen Breaking Down
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.