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On Wednesday I was doing my usual scan of the daily investment news. After reading this article from CNBC you could have knocked me over with a feather. Here is the key excerpt: Futures trading now indicates an 80% chance of a rate cut by January 2020, according to the CME’s FedWat...

Every breath you take Every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take I'll be watching you - The Police Imagine it, money made from nothing except a keystroke, a wand waved by an "independent" central banker, a computer is some small room where some clerk hits the ...

Me Want 3-Year Bond So, like, this is happening: US Treasury The entire curve is inverted with the 6-month bill, and the 3-month is not far behind. Everything from the 1-year on is inverted with Fed Funds. As you can see, investors cannot get enough of the 2 through 5-year maturities...

Judging by several key economic indicators, it's reasonable to assume that inflation will remain steady at a moderate pace. US GDP growth in the first quarter quickened to a solid 3.2% increase and the labor market expanded at a strong pace in April . Later this year, the expansion will bec...

Perhaps it shouldn't come as a surprise. After all, during the first quarter of this year, several key banks announced they had had enough. Goldman Sachs (GS), Nomura (NMR), Credit Suisse (CS), as well as others, they all broadcast cuts to key operations. The FICC stuff, or bond trading to...

The U.S. and China vow to dig in their heels as simmering trade tensions between the two countries risk boiling over into an all-out trade war. Kim Parlee speaks with Scott Colbourne , Managing Director at TD Asset Management, about the potential economic impact of tit-for-tat tariffs ...

Let's start with the good news: while many worry indicators are rising today, along with the decline in stocks, the US dollar is weaker. It will be hard to declare if a risk-off environment has fully gripped the markets without a meaningful surge in the safe-haven dollar (see figure 4), which ...

In the past few years, I wrote a lot about the unprecedented credit crisis I foresee. I call it “The Great Reset.” I have to add, it isn’t what I think the future should look like or what I want to see. But almost the entire developed world has painted itself into a...

By William J. Luther There is little doubt that the Federal Reserve's failure to stabilize nominal spending in 2008 and 2009 resulted in a severe economic contraction . Production slumped and the unemployment rate climbed to 10 percent. But, in recent years, some have claimed that monetar...

Maybe it's a reaction to the recent escalation in the US-China trade conflict. Or perhaps the crowd is turning more cautious because of the runup in global equity markets earlier in 2019, before the trade row between Washington and Beijing undercut the bulls. Whatever the reason, yields on key...