The Big ECB Announcement

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Good morning, Slopers, and welcome back to another day in December 1999 – – whoops, I mean December 2016 – – in which this headline greeted us:

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It appears equity markets didn’t get the memo that this was a really big deal. The chart since yesterday resembles the EKG of a corpse.

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I will say, however, that the “path to parity” I keep touting appears to have turned the page to a new chapter. The green tint, I would suggest, represents substantial overhead supply, and the Euro seems well positioned to keep evaporating down to the oh-so-easy-to-convert 1-for-1 value with the US dollar.

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