Previously on MoreLiver’s:
Roundups &
Commentary
Frontrunning – ZH
Overnight: Rajoy "There Are No Green Shoots,
There Is No Spring" – ZH
The Lunch Wrap – alphaville
/ FT
Emerging N.Y. headlines – beyondbrics
/ FT
Daily press summary – Open Europe
Olli Rehn: We envisage EU Treaty change in 18
month to five years
Morning MarketBeat: The Race is On – WSJ
Sterling Pounded
on Dovish MPC – Marc
to Market
Morning
Briefing (EU/US): The Art of War – BNY
Mellon
Policy makers show little sign of stopping
doing whatever it is they have or have not been doing
EUROPE
A Minutes worth of sterling freefall – alphaville
/ FT
The minutes
put the MPC far closer to adding more QE to the mix than had been supposed with
Fisher and King weighing in on the more-QE side.
BoE minutes are very dovish – TradingFloor
Nick
Beecroft: Continuing in the same vein as that set after the publication of the BOE’s
February Inflation report, the February meeting of the Monetary Policy
Committee (MPC) was apparently a decidedly dovish affair.
Martin Wolf Misses the Real Reason the
Eurozone’s Unhappy Marriage Has Not Broken Up Yet – naked
capitalism
So why are
the periphery countries suffering this level of unproductive pain? Because the
countries aren’t making the decisions. It’s powerful local politicians who are
selling out their countries, working in cahoots with Eurozone technocrats. And
I can assure you none of them are sharing in the suffering of periphery country
workers.
In the Picture: the subversive appeal of Beppe
Grillo – The
World / FT
Final
opinion polls published ahead of the February 24-25 election showed his Five
Star Movement in third position with 13-16% of the vote – ahead of Monti’s
Civic Choice and only a few points behind Berlusconi’s People of Liberty. So
how did he get there? And what does he really believe in?
UNITED STATES
Fee Fi Fo FOMC. – Macro Man
ASIA
Japan trade figures, perhaps not so bad – alphaville
/ FT