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Before the infamous tariff tweet on May 5 that announced to the world that the Chinese trade deal was in trouble, December 2019 Fed Fund futures settled at 97.735 (symbol ZQZ19). That number may not mean much to the average investor, but to a futures trader it implied that the market was expec...

The stock market was largely on "hold" last week in anticipation of the upcoming Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting and clarification of when the Fed might start cutting key interest rates. Right now, the Fed Funds futures are signaling about a 74% chance that the Fed will cut rates ...

Twice a year, we gather BlackRock's senior decision makers for a two-day forum on the market outlook and its investment implications. We debated many topics at our meeting last week in London, including what could spark a change in the macro backdrop and how to prepare portfolios for a wider r...

By James Knightley With trade tensions likely to escalate, this Wednesday's Fed meeting looks set to confirm market expectations - precautionary interest rate cuts are coming. After hiking interest rates four times in 2018, the Federal Reserve has taken a more cautious approach to ...

This article is a wake-up call for those who do not understand the true purpose of monetary inflation, and do not realise they are the suckers being robbed by monetary policy. With the world facing a deepening recession, monetary inflation will accelerate again. It is time for everyone to reco...

The US deficit this year is already over three-quarters of a trillion dollars, putting the first eight months of the fiscal year almost equal with the entire past fiscal year. It is also $200 billion above the previous record for this portion of the year, and this May's deficit alone was 40% h...

Originally published June 17 It was a busy weekend, to say the least. Two birthday parties. Our youngest daughter's master's graduation at DU. The ensuing after-party until all hours. A celebration for our eldest daughter's PhD. Some precious babysitting time with our grandson. Four trips ...

"Wednesday's Child" comes from the nursery rhyme of the 19th century that was supposedly used in the area of fortune telling by the day of one's birth in rhyme. "Wednesday's Child" is said to be "full of woe." Seems fitting that this Wednesday will conclude one of the most (yes, most!) impor...

When the market falls in the trap of wishful thinking History warns us about not confusing what is true versus what we wish to be true , as Ray Dalio identified in his book Principles. Yet wishful thinking - the attribution of reality to what one wants to believe - is one of the most co...

Investment thesis The basic thesis is that it takes bulls to make a bull market, and the long bond ( TLT ) now has both the technical and fundamental backdrop to complete the bull market move it has made since the bottom of the bond bear market last October. I'll begin with some technical po...