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Equities have wobbled a bit at the start of the month, but unless they lose the plot in coming weeks, it is fair to say that Q1 will be everything that Q4 wasn’t - decent and calm. Indeed, the finer details reveal an even more striking dichotomy with the calamity that culminated in the ...

This is a solo cast with me Chris D. As a quantitative systematic trader, I look at price action to come up with a repeatable approach to trading the global macro space. Generally speaking the markets don’t line up all together in a way that is easy to identify, but this last w...

Aggressive monetary ease may stem the global economic slowdown while boosting the value of financial assets, but we really need widespread structural financial and regulatory reforms, as well as trade deals, to meaningfully re-accelerate global growth. We were not surprised to see the OECD las...

The BCI at 250.0 is above last week's downward revised 249.6, and remains below this business cycle’s peak as indicated by the BCIp at 95.0. Also, the 6-month smoothed annualized growth BCIg at 9.4 is above last week’s downward revised 9.3. Both BCIp and BCIg are not signaling ...

This is the final part of the three-part series on the yield curve. You can read part I and part II by clicking here and here . In part I of this series, I started at the front-end of the yield curve, actually discussing Federal Funds Futures, as well as touched on short-term intere...

By OpenMarkets With a data dependent Fed, this Friday’s unemployment number could determine how dovish or hawkish the Fed will be in the next two months, says Jack Bouroudjian. He also looks at how the number and the Fed’s response could weigh on the yield curve. ...

By CME Group Originally published February 27, 2019 A Treasury repurchase agreement (“repo”) is a key element of any Treasury cash/futures basis trade. For example, being long a Treasury cash/futures basis position involves a long position in cheapest to deliver...

In part I of this series, we discussed the very short end of the yield curve, actually starting with Fed Funds futures, to understand the expectations in the market today as it pertains to Federal Reserve policy. If you have not read part I, you can do so by clicking here . After analyz...

By Collin Martin Fixed-rate bonds are beginning to look more attractive than investments with floating coupon rates. Floating-rate bonds have coupon rates that are tied to short-term benchmarks, often with a strong relationship to the Federal Funds rate, the overnight rate that the Feder...

Rise of the Zombies - Precious Metals Supply and Demand Last week, the prices of gold and silver fell $35 and ¢70, respectively. But what does that mean (other than woe unto anyone who owned silver futures with leverage)? The S&P 500 index and the euro was up a bit, though the yua...