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The Federal Reserve has long been clear on the sequence of events as it innovated the playbook during the Great Financial Crisis. There would be a considerable period between when the Fed would finish its credit easing operations that involved purchasing Treasuries and mortgage-backed securi...

"A US inflation breakout looks unlikely," advises Oxford Economics' chief US economist, Gregory Daco. As forecasts go for the projections of pricing pressure, that ranks as one of the safer bets these days, or so it appears based on recent data and the outlook for today's January report on c...

I get a kick out of these billionaires and centimillionaires, like Kyle Bass yesterday, who appeared on financial television to look the viewer in the eye and tell them that economy is booming. Kyle Bass doesn't expect a mild recession until mid-2020. Hmmm... explain that rationale to the 78%+...

It is critical to keep in mind that monetary policy changes impact the real economy at a lag of several quarters. So the tightening cycle that ran from December 2015 to December 2018 will continue to dampen global demand over the next several quarters, even if central banks tighten no further ...

By OpenMarkets Global interest rates remain low. Jack Bouroudjian looks at the two schools of thought on what that means for markets. Ultimately, he says, Jay Powell's words should give market participants some direction. Editor's Note: The summary bullets for this article were ch...

On Friday, the CFTC posted its COT data for the first week in 2019. For crude oil, capitulation . For US Treasury bond futures, capitulation. In the latter financial market, unsurprisingly, the net market position utterly collapsed during December. From a relatively high (meaning market overa...

By Francis A. Scotland U.S. monetary policy announcements can be cryptic at times. Not so the last Federal Open Market Committee meeting. The January 30 press conference was the final act to some dramatic theatre that does play out from time to time at the Federal Reserve (Fed). The earlie...

Investors pushed $490M into iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF ( TLT -0.3% ) last week, bringing its YTD inflow to a record $2.3B, Bloomberg reports. More news on: iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF, ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury ETF, Direxion Daily 20+ Year Treasury Bear 3x S...

Bill Dudley, who is now a senior research scholar at Princeton University's Center for Economic Policy Studies and previously served as president of the New York Fed and was vice-chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee, recently penned an interesting piece from Bloomberg stating: ...

Fear returned to the financial market this week as investors worried that a March 1 trade deadline for the U.S. and China wouldn’t be met. This resulted in a spike in stock market volatility and a pullback in the major U.S. averages. While many participants fear a worst-case scenario, t...