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Pussy Riot! Pussy Riot! Pussy Riot! Sorry. Couldn’t help myself. It’s way too fun to say that, knowing it won’t clog your spam folder. Plus, I got mild tourette’s. Anyhow, in my absence, Putin locked up my favorite punk band. Apparently Vladimir’s gone soft, ’cause a hardened dictator woulda tucked the trio into bed, not the gulag. But hey, that’s the trend. Things ain’t as hard as we thought. Yeah, look at US Q2 GDP

Olivia and Teddy squeezed into the 3rd row, double-buckled, sandwiched between luggage, laptops, lacrosse gear. Osama bin Charlie, strapped to his water-board, shared the 2nd row with Jackson and Grandma. DJ Mara rode shotgun, spinning Harry Potter books-on-tape. While Grandpa Pierre sat between us, reduced to ashes, in a 6-inch wooden box, in the center console, amidst our CD collection. Yeah, it was our Little Miss

Week-in-Review: Mon: Russia ret sales 18m low, German fin min denies rumors ECB to cap peripheral yields, S&P flat; Tue: China injects 220B CNY to easy money mkts, HK CPI 24m low, smooth Spanish bill auction, S&P -0.3%; Wed: Dovish FOMC mins foreshadow QE3 (USD drops), Norway unemp 3%, Brazil infl as exp, Canada ret sales soft, S&P flat; Thur: China HSBC flash PMI soft, Taiwan IP remains weak, Germ mfg PM

See you Sept 2nd with full wknd notes. Week-in-Review: Mon: Russia ret sales 18m low, German fin min denies rumors ECB to cap peripheral yields, S&P flat; Tue: China injects 220B CNY to easy money mkts, HK CPI 24m low, smooth Spanish bill auction, S&P -0.3%; Wed: Dovish FOMC mins foreshadow QE3 (USD drops), Norway unemp 3%, Brazil infl as exp, Canada ret sales soft, S&P flat; Thur: China HSBC flash PMI so

Week-in-Review: Mon: Japan GDP slips, Mex IP stable, VIX 5yr low, new lawsuit filed against ESM in German court, S&P -0.1%; Tue: Sweden IP 5m high, Germ ZEW 8m low, EU GDP continues drift lower, EU IP stable, UK CPI 2.6%, US NFIB 9m low, retail sales solid, S&P unch; Wed: Turkey unemp new lows – 8.2%, Greece seeks 2yr austerity extension, BoE mins tad hawkish, UK emp solid, US CPI soft, IP strong, S&P +0.

See you Sept 2nd with full wknd notes. Week-in-Review: Mon: Japan GDP slips, Mex IP stable, VIX 5yr low, new lawsuit filed against ESM in German court, S&P -0.1%; Tue: Sweden IP 5m high, Germ ZEW 8m low, EU GDP continues drift lower, EU IP stable, UK CPI 2.6%, US NFIB 9m low, retail sales solid, S&P unch; Wed: Turkey unemp new lows – 8.2%, Greece seeks 2yr austerity extension, BoE mins tad hawkish, UK emp sol

Week-in-Review: Mon: Curiosity on Mars, S&P + 0.3%;  Tue: RBA unch’d (exp), Hungary IP, Italy IP and German Factory orders (-) surprise, Canada PMI and UK IP (+) surprise, S&P 0.5%;  Wed: German IP, India IP, China IP and Japan machine orders disappoint, Aussie jobs stronger (14k vs 10k exp), Greece outlook neg (S&P), NZ’s Key says scope to lower rates, US Q2 Unit Labor Costs +1.7%, S&P fl

See you again with full wknd notes on Sept 2nd. Week-in-Review: Mon: Curiosity on Mars, S&P + 0.3%;  Tue: RBA unch’d (exp), Hungary IP, Italy IP and German Factory orders (-) surprise, Canada PMI and UK IP (+) surprise, S&P 0.5%;  Wed: German IP, India IP, China IP and Japan machine orders disappoint, Aussie jobs stronger (14k vs 10k exp), Greece outlook neg (S&P), NZ’s Key says scope to lower

Week-in-Review: Mon: Japan IP 6m low, Sweden GDP solid, Spain CPI 7m high (2Q GDP -0.4%), EU cons conf 35m low, Brazil infl pops, S&P -0.1%; Tue: S.Korea IP soft, Japan PMI 15m low, Taiwan 2Q GDP negative, Italy unemp 10.8%, Germ unemp stable,  EU unemp 11.2%, US savings rate bounces, US C/S home-price fall slowing, Chicago PMI 53.7, cons conf solid, S&P -0.4%; Wed: Aussie PMI 37m lows, China HSBC PMI 49.3, S