ITAÚ: Ready weather or not

Being a macro investor is hard enough without taking on a side job as a weatherman, but that’s what seems to be required today. The U.S. economic outlook depends on the weather, the outlook for commodity prices – depends on the weather, the outlook for interest rates, equities, inflation, consumer demand – depends on the weather. In some ways it might be a good trade, after all, weathermen get it wrong all the time and still get paid.

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