by M. K. Matthews, The Organic Prepper The ten year U.S. Treasury Bonds rose above 3% for the first time since January 2011. The main reason is speculation that the Fed will seek an increasingly aggressive rise in interest rates. Yields …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter I don’t expect a “monetary shock” now. But maybe later. Back in October 2015, the three-month Treasury yield was 0%. Many on Wall Street said that the Fed could never raise interest rates, that the zero-interest-rate …
by Simon Black Earlier this month, the United States government released its annual financial report for the year 2017. This is something the government does every year, similar to how large companies like Apple, or Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, publish their own annual …
via Tom Bowley U.S. indices continued to tread water on Thursday, with mixed action among our major indices and sectors. The Dow Jones posted a triple digit gain (165 points), but the more aggressive NASDAQ and Russell 2000 indices both fell …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Just add tax cuts and ballooning expenditures. The media chose to silence the report to death. “If a tree fell in a forest and nobody heard it, did it really make a sound?” asks our …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter A very crowded trade goes begging for a contrarian reaction. The 10-year Treasury yield closed on Monday at 2.86% the highest since January 16, 2014, after briefly kissing 2.89% during the day. At the moment, it …
by Anthony B Sanders US Real GDP seems to be booming (see yesterday’s Atlanta Fed GDPNow Report for 4.2% growth) while The Fed continues to raise their target rate and unwinding its $4.4 trillion balance sheet. The result? The US …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter And how would the housing market digest these kinds of mortgage rates? In this cycle, the Fed has hiked its target range for the federal funds rate only after meetings that were followed by a press …
by Anthony B Sanders Last night I attended a speech by Heritage Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow and Trump adviser Stephen Moore. He is a very optimistic and dynamic speaker and challenged the audience to find one thing that is not …
by Anthony B Sanders US Real GDP is growing at 2.3% YoY. What’s not to like? How about the lowest unemployment rate since 2000 and the worst wage “recovery” in modern times? AND a flattening Treasury yield curve? Yes, we …
Treasury Yields Tumble to Lowest Since June as Stocks Sink As bond yields began to tumble, so stocks rolled over and VIX jerked above 10… 10Y Yields have retraced exactly 50% of the post-hawkish-Draghi swing higher… [4] Notably UST bonds …
The US and China’s manufacturing activity seem to be synchronized – and both are slowing…#recession2017? #igwt2017 pic.twitter.com/3eUtruyVRp — Ronnie Stoeferle (@RonStoeferle) May 4, 2017 Global recession risk rises as the US and China tighten into the storm Equity investors across …
by Chris Hamilton From 1776 through 2007, the US issued just over $9 trillion in US Treasury debt to pay for stuff which “we” wanted but “we” were unwilling to tax ourselves to pay for. The buyers during that period …
by Chris Hamilton I’m dazed & confused…economists and the consensus all acknowledge 2001 and 2007 were low interest rate, debt driven financial and economic bubbles. However, somehow today’s even lower interest rate environment resulting in an additional $9.5 trillion in equity valuation from the …
by Amna El Tawil According to the latest reports for November, China’s holdings of the US Treasuries decreased for the sixth month in a row. More precisely, China’s holdings declined to $1.049 trillion, a drop of about $66 billion, data …
by Gordon T Long Problems in China are looming on top of an already very tenuous and misunderstood situation in the US Financial Markets. Additionally, Federal Reserve Policy has made the situation even more combustible! As a result of a Trump Victory inspired bond …