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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The US Treasury yield curve is having some bad-hair days. It is overall flat-ish, but within this description, it is steepening at the short end, sagging … Read more
RT, Released on 1/9/18 Max interviews Karl Denninger of Market-Ticker.org about the markets in 2019 – can the Fed put lipstick on the market pig? They also discuss tech stocks, … Read more
via reuters: A worrying sign of inversion in the U.S. Treasury bond curve is dulling the appeal of the developed world’s highest-yielding bond market for foreign investors. Overseas investors are reviewing … Read more
Treasury International Capital flows showed Brazil the biggest buyer of Treasurys in August (followed by Ireland and France), but it was China and ‘ally’ Japan that dumped the most Treasurys … Read more
by stockboardasset via RTRS Foreign investors are showing signs of fatigue in absorbing the supply of Treasuries that is growing due to the U.S. government’s ballooning budget gap, posing a risk … Read more
via RT’s business The persistently soaring US debt is now well over $21 trillion. While most media focus on foreign holders of US Treasuries, they make up less than 30 percent … Read more
by Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst, GoldSilver In case you’re unfamiliar with the 1966 movie The Russians Are Coming!, it’s a fun romp about a Russian submarine that accidentally runs … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Russia, Japan, and the Fed dumped. So who bought? China’s holdings of US Treasury bonds, notes, and bills, after rising in February and March, fell by … Read more
India bans bitcoin wallets and trading cryptocurrencies. Venezuela is doing the opposite, they want to pay for goods using their cryptocurrency. The US has the largest trade deficit since the … Read more
US trade deficit rises to near 9½-year high The Commerce Department said the trade gap rose 1.6 percent to $57.6 billion. That was the highest level since October 2008. Part … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “We are looking at all options.” In an interview about the trade sanctions that President Trump is throwing at China and at Corporate America – whose … Read more
via Mike Mish Shedlock “Will there be a mismatch between what the U.S. wants to sell (Treasuries) and what the world wants to buy?” Brad Setser asks the above question in … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But something funny happened on the way to the headlines. In describing the retail-sales data released today, words like “slumps” and “declines” kept cropping up in … Read more
by Chris Black According to a report on Wednesday, Chinese officials are contemplating the possibility of either slowing or completely halting the purchase of US treasuries, thus making bond investors … Read more