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By James T. Tierney, Jr. Equity markets recovered in June as the US Federal Reserve turned decidedly dovish, coming in line with most central banks around the world. But after posting strong gains, to end the quarter close to a record high, how much more steam do US stocks have left? Ove...

Government bond yields fell in June, with eurozone's peripheral economies registering the most pronounced moves. Italy and Greece saw the yield on their 10-year benchmark notes plunge 58 and 42 basis points over the month to close at 2.07% and 2.30%, respectively. Similarly, their Portuguese a...

(Source: artnetnews , caption and editing by the Author) Events in the current story of the “ Caravaggio Code ” have taken an interesting twist lately. Some readers will remember how the sad demise of Chairman Powell was conflated with this unfolding global mystery tal...

Some naysayers who insist on cursing the thorn instead of being inspired by the beauty of a rose find something or other to fret about in the June employment report that easily exceeded expected job growth and was the best since January. It succeeded in doing what several regional Fed presid...

The steady rise in interest rates of instruments such as U.S. Treasuries, that are typically used as collateral for insurance-linked securities ((ILS)) and collateralized reinsurance investments, have now served to boost returns for ILS investors in 2019. U.S. Treasuries have seen their inte...

It used to be that the central banks were part of the markets, all of the markets. It used to be the consensus viewpoint that they had a large influence on the short end of the Yield Curve but not on the long end of the Yield Curve. It used to be, as exemplified by the "Bond Vigilantes," that ...

The Fed's semiannual Monetary Report was released Friday and really offered all the ammunition the Fed needs to begin lowering rates this month. The Fed is concerned that uncertainty over trade has constrained business spending and caused a slowdown in manufacturing. The Fed cautioned that gro...

Rates have continued to dip. Forward markets have already moved much of the way back toward zero. This has been somewhat surprising to me. I expected the Fed to maintain the fed funds rate at a plateau level, as they did in the last two cyclical reversals. But they are almost certain to start ...

With the trade war in full swing and the USA attacking many of its trading partners over perceived unfairness in trade relationships, what would happen if Brazil dumped its considerable holding of Treasuries into the secondary market or chose not to buy any more Treasuries and let the remainde...

The rate of inflation in the economy has receded into the shadows. Central bank policy makers have been experiencing a time where their efforts to jumpstart the economy through “goosing up” actual inflation rates has been falling far short of their targets. Officials at the F...