Cost of PUTs on Shanghai Index Hits Record vs. Calls; Sentiment vs. Valuation
August 30, 2015 0

Cost of PUTs on Shanghai Index Hits Record vs. Calls; Sentiment vs. Valuation

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This Bloomberg headline " If the Options Market Is Right, China’s Stock Rescue Is Doomed " reads like something one would find in a tabloid, but the reverse is now true. Options traders have never been so pessimistic on China’s stock market, betting the government’s renewed effort to prop up share prices is doomed to fail. The cost of bearish contracts on the China 50 exchange-traded fund surged to the highest level versus bullish ones since they started trading in Shanghai six months ago

Dear Bishop Hill: read your links. Also, take a look at this graph.
August 29, 2015 0

Dear Bishop Hill: read your links. Also, take a look at this graph.

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And Stern 2015 : …Professor Stern, the chair of the Grantham research institute on climate change and the environment, said that it was a false dichotomy to posit growth against climate action. “To portray them as in conflict is to misunderstand economic development and the opportunities that we now have to move to the low-carbon economy,†he said. “To pretend otherwise is diversionary and indeed creates an ‘artificial horse race’ which can cause real damage to the prospects for agreement.†Green parties in Europe have often argued that decarbonisation requires an end to the model of economic growth “at all costsâ€