Strong USD, rising rates, chopping stocks beginning to take their toll on US economic data. If this continues, it will force the Fed to show their cards – is this a normal rate hike cycle or will they "shoot the hostage" to defend the USD? https://t.co/L6BOVnMO72
— Luke Gromen (@LukeGromen) August 21, 2018
This chart is a shock. The % of unprofitable #USA small-cap firms (Russell 2000) should be close to the minimum in an #economy growing briskly.
From @SoberLook https://t.co/Oqc5kOLdNb #investing #inversion #funds #StockMarket pic.twitter.com/zQYb1r0scG
— JCV (@jcvSmartGlobal) August 21, 2018
— Alastair Williamson (@StockBoardAsset) August 21, 2018
Criticism of the #Fed raising rates is not new. The President said many times as a candidate in 2016.
He knows what tightening will do
– By keeping #interestrates low, the Fed has created a “false stock market”
– “raise interest rates and watch what happens to the stock market pic.twitter.com/6QMVtZhaML
— OW (@OccupyWisdom) August 21, 2018
U.S. 2s/10s yield curve flattens below 23 bps. Flattest in 11 years, and inching closer to inversion. pic.twitter.com/g8Pl9qL617
— Jamie McGeever (@ReutersJamie) August 20, 2018