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Originally published January 28, 2019 Weekly Market Compass: Key votes and critical data releases could influence the markets as January ends By Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist on Jan 28, 2019, in Market & Economic Last week was momentous as experts...

The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) recently released their quarterly survey on business conditions which resulted in a more gloomy outlook for sales, pricing, and profits than previous surveys. The respondents in the survey also reported that neither the trade war, nor...

“Kill yourself for recognition Kill yourself to never ever stop You broke another mirror You're turning into something you are not” --High And Dry, Radiohead, 1995 The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 gave corporate earnings a sugar high. GAAP earnings on the S...

It's not too early to ask: Would a U.S. economic slowdown mean political hay for Democratic candidates in 2020? As Hedgeye Demography analyst Neil Howe explains in the video below, he sees the Republicans playing defense, and Democrats on offense for the marathon campaign heading towar...

Recently, 1) the Fed wisely rolled back its plans to hike interest rates and to shrink its balance sheet and 2) Chinese negotiators made clear that they are willing to do a trade deal. These are good things that the markets reacted well to. At the same time, a) the wealth/opportunity gap is in...

A worrisome decline in the Treasury market's implied inflation forecasts that began last October appeared to stabilize in the new year. But over the last week, the downside bias has returned, raising questions about monetary policy ahead of tomorrow's Federal Reserve's policy meeting (Jan. 30)...

It was the most common catchphrase of 2017, interest rates have nowhere to go but up. Maybe it was doomed from the start given that Alan Greenspan was among the more prominent commentators expressing this view. In his mind, the bond market was in a bubble and the party was already over. His ...

Craig Torres is a reporter for Bloomberg News where has earned several rewards for his reporting on Fed policy. Previously, Craig also served as the chief of the Wall Street Journal’s Mexico City bureau, where his work on the collapse of the peso in the mid 90’s made him a finali...

As we discussed in this past weekend's missive : A WSJ article suggesting that the Fed would not only stop hiking interest rates but also cease the balance sheet reduction which has been extracting liquidity from the market. In mid-2018, the Federal Reserve was adamant that a...

European corporate bonds sold off late last year amid a broad risk-off environment. Most risk assets have recovered since. One of the surprising exceptions: BBB-rated European debt. We now see compelling relative value in this segment of the European credit market, though we maintain our neutr...