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by FS Listen to this podcast on our site by clicking here or subscribe on iTunes here. Though we’ve seen markets swing a bit recently, we’re still in positive territory for the year. … Read more
Josh Sigurdson talks further with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the 2018 Canadian budget as we continue our series! This time around, we talk about bond buybacks and … Read more
via Macro Voices Erik Townsend welcomes Jim Grant to MacroVoices. Erik and Jim discuss new Fed governor Powell, treasury yields and how far the FED go before something breaks. They discuss … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Investors are still blowing off the Fed. But not much longer. CVS Health Corp. sold $40 billion of bonds on Tuesday to help fund its $69 … Read more
via Natasha Turak | @NatashaTurak Rapidly mounting debt in the U.S. may be the trigger that bursts the bond bubble, Oaktree Capital Management’s director Jordon Kruse told CNBC. Several Wall Street observers have warned that a … Read more
In the last 45 years, there have been seven periods of persistent US dollar and Treasury bond weakness and as BofAML notes, during six of those periods, stocks have been pressured … Read more
Interviewed in this video is Doug Noland a hedge fund industry veteran and financial blogger, of the Credit Bubble Bulletin The Fed Paradox: Necessary Rate Hikes = Inevitable Crisis … Read more
via Stephanie Landsman A Wall Street veteran is going against the market consensus by sharpening his economic slowdown call. The Economic Cycle Research Institute’s Lakshman Achuthan is citing troublesome activity brewing in … Read more
Anyone notice the market breaking and low vol collapsing happened w/ bond yields surging. lol we're so screwed — Alastair Williamson (@StockBoardAsset) February 6, 2018 Is the honeymoon over? “I’ve … Read more
by John Ward CARNAGE OVERNIGHT IN ASIA Just before yesterday’s global stock slide, there was a trailer pointing out the fundamental problem with increasingly jobless/lowage neoliberal “economics”. I’m not sure many … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter It’s just a question of how disruptive the adjustment will be, whether it will be just a painful sell-off or junk-bond mayhem. Treasury securities have been … Read more
ITM Trading, Released on 2/2/18 Something is going on in the global bond market and it doesn’t look good for most of the other markets. In the US Treasury market, … Read more
by BILL BONNER CORK, IRELAND – “U.S. Stocks Drop as Treasury Sell-Off Gains Steam,” was headline news at Bloomberg yesterday. Meanwhile, bitcoin tumbled toward $8,000, wiping about $100 billion off its … Read more
by Shaun Richards So far in 2018 we have seen a move towards higher bond yields across the financial world. This poses more than a few questions not least for … Read more
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc4pDUDCR5k We do ourselves no favors by following Greenspan’s advice. but he’s not wrong here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEv9HJH8FW4 Peter Schiff will want to hear this… AC
by Anthony B Sanders Alan Greenspan, who didn’t think there was a housing bubble, now thinks there is a stock market bubble. Yes, “Maestro” didn’t see a housing bubble and … Read more