Another “Doomsday Moment”… Yield-Starved Investors Giving In to the Demands of Bond Sellers… Margin Debt Continues To Provide Tailwind For Stocks.

Another “Doomsday Moment” for High-Yield Strategies Felsenheimer, a high-yield and distressed portfolio manager with XAIA Investments, began by warning that his presentation, “The Devil in Disguise,” would be pessimistic. Then he made a strong case that risk in high-yield markets …

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Citi labels 2s/5s US yield spread as the best interest rate chart in the world. Bear flattening signaled Savings and Loan Crisis in the late 1980s, the Dot-Com crash in the early 2000s and the GFC in 2007.

https://twitter.com/Schuldensuehner/status/933449988276916224 TROUBLE? What is the predictive power of the yield curve? Shape of the yield curve, advanced by 15 mths, has a decent fit w/US GDP growth. But yield curve inversions over-predict recessions. https://t.co/1mo5QwepsZ pic.twitter.com/Ysd5YCKe4F — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) November …

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China’s 10-year Yield Bumping 4%

by Tom McClellan Even before President Trump’s Asia trip, Chinese 10-year sovereign bond yields have been pushing higher.  And that means we should expect the same for U.S. 10-year T-Note yields. I wrote about this relationship back in May 2017, noting …

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Michael Pento Warns of Exploding Debt, Inverted Yield Curve, and Then “Economic Armageddon”

by Money Metals Michael Pento Warns of Exploding Debt, Inverted Yield Curve, and Then “Economic Armageddon” https://s3.amazonaws.com/ILB_MS_BUCKET/ILB-170526POD.mp3 DOWNLOAD MP3 Don’t want to listen? Read the podcast below! Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason. Coming up Michael Pento of …

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