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, US Treasuries, the US dollar and more. Max Keiser is …
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 their investments or shunning Treasuries as rates at the short …
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 that bond yields will eventually spike. The rising stockpile of …
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 of the total. RT breaks down who holds the rest. …
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 aground off the New England coast during the Cold War …
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 $5.8 billion in April to $1.18 trillion. Thus, China’s holdings …
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 financial crisis. Trump pushes trade wars with China, tries to …
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 of the rise in the trade deficit in February reflected …
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 supply chains go through China in search of cheap labor …
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 his “Follow the Money” post How Will the U.S. Fund its …
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 the headlines. This referred to the seasonally adjusted month-over-month data, …
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 (among others) jittery, as this may be the end of …