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In this commentary, Brian Meaney, Vice President, Taxable Fixed Income Strategist, reviews the first quarter of 2019 and examines our outlook and positioning for the months ahead. Editor's Note: The summary bullets for this article were chosen by Seeking Alpha Read more ...

After raising interest rates and getting slapped around by the markets last year, the Fed now appears to accept that future monetary policy can only be easy, even at the cost of ever-larger and more destabilizing financial bubbles. On one hand, this is a truly epochal change. On the other hand...

At the Wednesday closing, it took only 1.1155 euros to purchase one dollar. One week ago, it took 1.1300 euros to buy one dollar. On December 31, 2018, one dollar cost 1.1460 euros. One year ago, one dollar cost almost 1.2200 euros. The general tendency in the market place was for the ...

The Federal Reserve's decision in early 2019 to pause on interest rate hikes is widely credited as a key factor in the stock market's U-turn this year following the sharp correction in equities in late-2018. But the recent uptick in the Effective Federal Funds rate ((EFF)) suggests that the ...

By Sharat Kotikalpudi The US yield curve dipped into inverted territory recently. But that's not necessarily a bad omen for equities. There are several important warning signals - and lately, the yield curve's slope is the only one flashing red. The curve plots the gap between long- and ...

Posted by Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist on April 22, 2019, in Market & Economic The view of future growth remains blurry for the world - including the US, China and Europe. In the past several months, we have seen central banks make an abrupt turn toward...

While the housing market has historically been the catalyst for many U.S. recessions, Hedgeye Housing analyst Josh Steiner explains in the video below why it’s unlikely to be the cause of the next economic downturn. “Housing is normally the cause of recessions – with...

Summary and Paper Thesis Although an inverted yield curve led to a recession almost without exception in the last 50 years within a relatively short period of time after the inversion happened, this paper asserts that the inverted yield curve that happened in March and April of 2019 will n...

It is the shadows that really matter . A big enough problem in them would affect pretty much everything, including far off, out-of-the-way places like Federal Funds. Thus, if we observe weird things going on there, we can infer more serious issues back where it does mean something. In 2013 ...

For some, like SA contributor Gary Gordon, the Fed is " Fooling Investors For A Third Time; " others, like conservative economist Greg Mankiw, sing the praise of the Fed : The nation’s central bank employs about 20,000 Americans. They monitor the economy, develop analyses to he...