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Welcome to the weekly Tortoise credit podcast . I’m Greg Haendel, senior portfolio manager at Tortoise. With the premier of the final season of Game of Thrones only days away, we can finally say, “Winter is here.” For the financial markets, winter seems to have been ave...

By OpenMarkets In order to understand U.S. interest rates, we have to look at Europe, says Jack Bouroudjian. He explains why interest rates are the headliner for markets this week, with the European Central Bank meeting, and the Federal Reserve releasing minutes. Editor’s ...

One key feature of the last 15 months has been the consistent declines in the global manufacturing PMI. After peaking in December 2017, the global manufacturing PMI has undergone a major slowdown, and that was a key driver behind the weakness in global markets last year (and a reflection of st...

As I have written many times before, I believe that the Fed follows the market and does not lead it. In fact, you can read my last article on the matter right here, as it explains this perspective using many historical examples. So, in following up on this perspective, let’s see if ...

Editor's note: Originally published at tsi-blog.com on April 9, 2019. [In a blog post last October , I mentioned that a recent divergence between the gold/commodity ratio and the T-Bond price had bullish implications for the T-Bond. A strong rebound in the T-Bond soon got underway....

We are cautious on U.S. Treasuries in the short term after the recent rally. Yet, we still advocate exposure to build portfolio resilience. Scott explains. U.S. Treasury yields dropped sharply in March, breaking out of the tight range they had traded in early this year. Could yields head l...

For the past ten years or so, I have argued that investors in the stock market have placed most of their attention on the behavior of the Federal Reserve System. For much of this time Federal Reserve officials led by Chairman Ben Bernanke overtly focused on the stock market with the intentio...

Revisiting Credit Spreads & Quality Spreads Corporate bond spreads, or the difference in yield between a corporate bond and an equal maturity Treasury bond, measures the relative risk of owning various corporate bonds across the risk spectrum relative to the "risk-free" rate. As...

Bonds as an investment have been deemed safe by many investors and financial advisors. This has caused many people to forget after their nearly four-decade run that bonds have a very ugly side that can yield great pain. The yield curve inverted last week moving many investors to start the coun...

Outspoken former Fed advisor Danielle DiMartino Booth joined Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough in a no-punches-pulled conversation about the Federal Reserve during our recent Hedgeye Investing Summit . As she explains in the brief excerpt from the interview below, Fed Chair Jerome Powell qui...