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Originally published July 26, 2019 Just think of it. We now have $13.4 trillion in negatively yielding debt. In all of recorded history, we have never had bonds with negative yields before. It is a milestone. It is a first. It is a first of firsts. It is a huge boon for borrowers, as ...

The economic calendar is massive, and that is just the start. Earnings season is in full swing. US/China trade talks resume. And finally, the FOMC announces its interest rate decisions. Expect plenty of commentary on the individual news items, but the real question is: How deftly can the m...

The Fed is about to change course officially this week beginning with at least a 25-basis cut in the Funds rate. The last five times the Fed cut rates "outside of recessions-including 1984, 1987, 1989, 1995 and 1998-the S&P 500 rose an average of 11% over the subsequent six months and 16% ...

By Brendan Brown The longer the signals in capital markets go haywire under the influence of "monetary stimulus," the bigger is the cumulative economic cost. That is one big reason why this fourth Fed stimulus - in the present already-longest (but lowest-growth) of super-long business cycl...

By Krishna Memani The Fed prognosticators are having a field day ahead of the upcoming FOMC meeting at the end of July. If you boil down all the rhetoric to the basics, most analyses want to know, at least now, whether the Fed will cut rates by 25 or 50 basis points (bps) in July. ...

I've talked quite a bit in these pages about the extent to which 2019 has been a year defined by an epochal central bank pivot, which has reinvigorated the global hunt for yield to the benefit of risk assets. There was a time not so long ago (perhaps five years ago) when the vast majority o...

By Kevin Flanagan Through the first six months of the year, the global fixed income markets have certainly put in a surprising performance. Indeed, as investors headed into 2019, the consensus opinion was that fixed income would more than likely put in a lackluster showing. As we are all w...

Regular Alt-M readers are no doubt looking forward to the FOMC's announcement next Wednesday. But I doubt they'll be sitting at the edges of their seats between now and then, much less biting their fingernails. Markets have, after all, been anticipating a modest Fed cut ever since the commit...

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. - Wonderland ...

For all of 2019, I have been watching one analyst after another suggesting investors “fade” the rally in bonds. And, of late, these voices have been getting louder and louder, as I just read yet another article calling for the “Great Unwind” in the bond trade. Wel...