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RaisePartner e-news February 08

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This past month has been very tense and put the markets through much pressure: the Société Générale affair, the lengthening list of victims of the subprime crisis...

Yet, the RP Quant Global Macro Index seems to weather this new storm on the markets, ending January with a positive performance.

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RP Quant Global Macro Index

RP Quant Global Macro in January '08:

Return over the month	+0.43%
Minimum daily return	-0.36%
Maximum daily return	+0.61%
Annualized daily volatility	3.17%

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RP Market Watch

			18-Feb-2008 \| Subprime crisis: are insurance companies next? One question is haunting the Finance ministers since the G7 Tokyo summit early this month: who will be next in the lengthening list of the victims of the subprimes crisis? About one year ago, in spring 2007, the Fed was forecasting a $50 billions loss; then experts talked about 150 billions after last August’s seism on the markets. Ten days ago in Tokyo, during the G7, the german Finance minister Peer Steinbrück revealed the losse [...]

			04-Feb-2008 \| After the storm, time for cold sweat and questioning Two weeks after January 21st mini-krash, market operators are barely catching their breath and analyzing the course of events. Early morning on Monday 21st, the news went out: the Nikkei 225 index dived 4% to 13 325,94 points, reaching its lowest level since October 25th 2005. At the head of Société Générale, hearts skipped a beat: this unexpected reaction of Asiatic markets were about to impact the European [...]

			21-Jan-2008 \| Skyrocketing cereal prices and hunger riots From Djakarta to Rome, from Dakar to Nouakchott, the rising price of cereals and oil-producing plants is causing riots. In Pakistan, the army had to keep the corn stocks safe from the angry masses. China and Russia have just set strict conditions on the price of farming products. During his last press conference held in Rome on December 17th 2007, the director of the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) Jacques Diouf [...]

			14-Jan-2008 \| Consumers are down in the dumps Analysts’ worries expressed at the beginning of Thanksgiving week seem to be confirmed: the US end-of-year sales are way below the most pessimistic expectations. Such a slack had not been observed since 2002. "These numbers are bad because consumers are clearly seeing some pain here," Ken Perkins, president of sales tracker Retail Metrics, said on CNN Money on December 10th. In Europe, the rising oil barrel price directly imp [...]

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Subprime crisis: are insurance companies next?

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Skyrocketing cereal prices and hunger riots

Consumers are down in the dumps

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