@martinwhetton.bsky.social
Head of Financial Markets Strategy- Westpac. Sydney based. Bit of wine, cycling MAMIL, travel.
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Vivid Sydney
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Ruh roh
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Wait until bunds get going..
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Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon.
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Close-up of Emmanuel Macron. Overlaid text reads: Macron open to stationing French nuclear weapons in other European nations
The French president has held talks with allies such as Germany and Poland as Europe responds to signs that the US plans to scale back its military presence on the continent. www.ft.com/content/9623...
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Oh *that* Enoch Powell speech.
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NYT: “.. The United States is the only country .. that is forecast to see an international visitor decline in 2025.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/t...
Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
Shocked . Shocked i tells you
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In return for……
13.05.2025 10:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Vibes of John Gummer and the mad cow burger 🍔
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Big start, large book already and tighter pricing in the benchmark Semi in € from QTC.
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God. Not Milton Keynes. Would somebody please think of the children!
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Great note here from
@WestpacMacro Luci Ellis on trade policy, opportunities, currency valuation, portfolio management and Australia’s defence sector. www.westpaciq.com.au/economics/20...
Well, I don’t want to go off on some sort of tangent, but I can’t work out what his angle will be. He’s obtuse.
08.05.2025 22:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0A pope with a maths degree. It’s some sort of sine.
08.05.2025 22:10 — 👍 58 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2You’ve still got it
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I need a (Taiwanese) dollar, dollar, a dollar is what I need.
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Per OMFIF.
07.05.2025 23:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That would make more sense
07.05.2025 09:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hmm not sure !
07.05.2025 08:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0{GE} "GERMAN DEFENCE MINISTER PISTORIUS IS SEEKING DRASTIC INCREASE IN GERMAN ANNUAL DEFENCE BUDGET - TWO SOURCES TELL REUTERS
* AIMS FOR MORE THAN 60 BLN EUROS PER YEAR IN DEFENCE SPENDING FROM 2025 - ONE SOURCE TELLS REUTERS" - Reuters
Evening run.
06.05.2025 07:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You’d think so..
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Errrrr… you sure ?
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