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What happened last week. What we're watching for next week. The market has taken a hit lately. Should we be worried? A look at the data might help. Chart of the Week - The Treasury Yield Curve The Treasury yield curve has inverted again. This indicator has a nearly perfect record...

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...

President Trump has declared he will extend tariffs of 25% on all America's imports of Chinese goods. China is responding with tariff increases of its own. The consequences of this action and reaction will be to kick-start higher monetary inflation in America and an economic slump. This articl...

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...

On Tuesday evening, I cautioned against the overriding tendency to couch the bounce in US equities in terms of "optimism" on trade. It's fine to explain a rebound in terms of a shift in the market narrative, but only if there is in fact a perceptible shift, and as of Tuesday, the outlook for...

The Fed has made clear it's sitting on its hands for now, but yields at the long end of the curve continue to plunge. The 10-year Treasury is down another four basis points this morning to 2.37% - investors can earn a couple of ticks more investing in 90-day bills. More news on: iShares ...

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...