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By Joseph V. Amato, President and Chief Investment Officer - Equities Is the bond market cautious or confused? Is the equity market confident or complacent? The first quarter of 2019 came to a close last week with an episode that typified the financial market confusion of the past thre...

Interest rates matter, especially to carry trades. Indeed, interest rate differentials are what determine which currency pairs are positive-carry or negative-carry. If you can purchase one currency that yields "X" in terms of another currency that yields "Y", so long as X exceeds Y (after cost...

One great quarter down, only three to go to wash away the horror show of 2018. The portfolio did well, though it is still bogged down by a number of single names which are beginning to look a lot like value traps of the nastiest kind. I am, as ever, optimistic about redemption in coming quarte...

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A very dull week so you can chalk one more up for the bulls. The longer the bulls can hold this higher ground the more likely this range resolves itself higher. Last week we mentioned that many investing professionals did not buy into the rally and expected a retest of the December lows. When ...

Interpreting the Yield Curve Generally speaking, the yield curve refers to varying yields on U.S. treasury bills, notes and bonds. It can be used in describing other fixed-income securities, but for the purposes of this article, we will focus on treasury securities. Before we get into why ...

The Fed sets interests rates. But how does the Fed set interest rates? The Fed is undergoing a big review of this question. We had a little workshop at Hoover in preparation for the larger May 3 Strategies for Monetary Policy conference , which provokes the following thoughts. Issue ...

By Erik Norland From early 2014 through 2018, expectations for rate hikes by the Federal Reserve (Fed) moved almost in lockstep with U.S. equity markets. Higher stock prices eventually translated into expectations that the Fed would hike rates while lower equities would cause (or at least ...

By Bluford Putnam The twin threat of a technical debt default and potential government shutdown could resurface later this year, likely affecting equities and Treasuries. Editor's Note: The summary bullets for this article were chosen by Seeking Alpha Read more ...

A Run For The Highs Friday wrapped up the first quarter of 2019, and it was the best quarterly performance since 2009. As shown in the chart below, if you bought the bottom, you are " killing it." However, you didn't. Despite all of the media "hoopla" about the rally, the realit...