by jcarmona24 This is the first time the 1/2yr treasury yield has inverted as when the Stock Markets closed at 1pm Eastern, the Bond market stayed open and investors FLOCKED to safe havens to lower the 2-yr yield at 2.56% and 1 …
by Michael Snyder If the financial markets are going to be just fine, then why did Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin make emergency calls to the CEOs of the six biggest banks in America on Sunday? And if we don’t have …
BIll Murphy interviewed on Reluctant Preppers Just the latest round of class-action lawsuits on gold price fixing are being filed against investment bank JPMorganChase because of the confession by a former futures trader for the bank who has pleaded guilty to manipulating …
Think back to when you saw that first Star Wars movie from 1977, and how the Death Star – this massive, cold, metal, ruthless, demonic Imperial battle station the size of a moon – was armed, mobilized & brutal enough …
BY JOHN MAULDIN The US Treasury has closed the books on Fiscal Year 2018, which was another debt-financed failure. The federal government spent above $4.1 trillion in FY 2018. It had to borrow $779 billion on budget and a few hundred …
from Zero Hedge Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is set to steal Timothy Geithner’s achievement of selling a record amount of notes and bonds as he seeks to finance America’s growing budget deficit. According to the latest quarterly refunding statement, the US Treasury is …
By Harry Dent I’ve been waiting for the recent spike in T-bonds in the U.S. A similar spike occurred in the early 1930s crash. Ten-year yields first jumped from 4.5% to 5.5% in 1931 and then fell all the way …
A U.S. Treasury employee has been arrested and charged with leaking to a BuzzFeed News reporter multiple secret reports about suspicious financial transactions. The documents relate to former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort, Trump campaign official Richard Gates, accused Russian …
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he isn’t worried about China selling U.S. Treasurys in retaliation over trade. “If they decide they don’t want to hold them, there are other buyers,” he says. Some have speculated that China could hit back …
Treasury officials Wednesday issued new rules requiring all foreign investors in certain deals involving critical U.S. technology to submit to national security reviews or face fines as high as the value of their proposed transactions. The new regulations, which implement …
by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Global stocks are declining as traders await where US Treasury yields settle this AM after yesterday’s bond market holiday US stocks index futures are pointing to a drop in US stocks on the open in NY with …
via CNBC The recent spike in the 10-year Treasury yield probably won’t continue for much longer, BlackRock global fixed-income CIO Rick Rieder told CNBC on Monday. Rieder, who oversees about $1.85 trillion in bond assets for the world’s largest money manager, also predicted that the Federal Reserve was …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1048030740586405889 Debt market > stock market With 3 months to go, US Bonds (Barclays Agg) are on pace for their worst year in history… pic.twitter.com/3wKVT591ux — Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) October 5, 2018 From the market bottom in 2009 to now, …
by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Global stocks are dropping this morning as US treasury yields continue to rally after the yield on the US 10-year hit the highest level since 2011 in yesterday’s trading US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, during a …
The U.S. Federal Reserve’s portfolio of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities has dropped below $4 trillion for the first time in more than four years, according to Fed data. The portfolio was assembled through three rounds of purchases starting during the …
via John Murphy TEN-YEAR TREASURY YIELD IS AT A CRUCIAL CHART POINT … Treasury bond yields are going through an important test of overhead resistance. Chart 1 shows the 10-Year Treasury yield ($TNX) challenging its May 2018 intra high near 3.11%. After pulling back …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration imposed sanctions on the Chinese military on Thursday for buying fighter jets and missile systems from Russia, in breach of a sweeping U.S. sanctions law punishing Moscow for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. …
via confoundedinterest: Central banks including The Federal Reserve have numbed the Treasury market to the extent that it feels like it has been injected with a massive dose of Lidocaine. 10-year Treasury Note volatility (TYVIX) just hit an all-time low. And the …
by Thinker In the last year, the Reserve Bank of India bought 8.6 metric tons of goal, its first big purchase since 2009. New Delhi (Sputnik): The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) purchased 8.46 metric tons of gold during the …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter An entire generation working on Wall Street has never seen Treasury yields this high. The one-month treasury yield rose to 2.0% yesterday at the close and is at about the same level today, the highest since …
via splinternews: This piece is co-published with investigative reporting outlet Capital & Main. Do “financial services” include banking? Not according to the Trump administration, whose new rule, issued Wednesday by the Treasury Department, argues there is a difference — and then cites …
via confoundedinterest: (Bloomberg) — Short-end U.S. rates have been buoyed by a tightening of Federal Reserve policy and an increase in issuance, and the U.S. Treasury on Monday sold $51 billion of three-month bills at 2 percent, the highest rate for an auction of …
"Short-term US Treasury Yields enter the week at their highest levels in 10 years…," h/t @charliebilello pic.twitter.com/MpokXx4xzU — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) July 30, 2018 "Eurozone slowdown starts to appear in business and consumer surveys," @dlacalle_IA pic.twitter.com/XmwhCil6e4 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) July 31, …
via thefreethoughtproject: Moscow, Russia – The Russian government has drastically reduced their holdings of United States Treasury bonds, with Russian ownership of U.S. bonds declining from $96.1 billion in March to $48.7 billion in April—and then further reducing their holdings to just $14.9 billion in May; an 11-year low. …
ECB not expected to hike off of all-time lows until October 2019. Market is expecting Fed Funds Rate to be at 2.71% by that time. h/t @charliebilello
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Who stepped up to the plate? It’s a good thing Russia never held as many US Treasury securities as China and Japan. The scenario would have been different. The “grand total” of US Treasury bonds, notes, …
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said some oil buyers could get waivers to continue buying Iranian supplies despite American sanctions on the Middle Eastern country. Concerns about the aggressive U.S. policy to remove Iranian barrels from the market have raised …
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 …
by Tom McClellan Since the early 1990s, there has been a pretty good correlation between the movements of the DJIA and the spread between the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield and the equivalent yield for German sovereign debt. The German bonds are …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But no blood in the streets. Just a rate-hike cycle at work. Today the US Treasury 10-year yield broke out of its recent range and surged 8 basis points to 3.08% at the close, the highest …