FLGV News and Press, Franklin Liberty U.S. Treasury Bond From 12/20/23

2023-12-20 03:08:00 ET Summary In recent years, investors prospered by selling stocks and going to cash in early 2019, avoiding the eventual market downturn and recession in 2020. Since November, the run-up in asset prices has been stunning. Such is particularly the case given the...

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2023-12-14 06:30:00 ET Summary The surprise from the FOMC was partly the extra 25bp implied cut added to 2024, but it was more the lack of pushback from Chair Powell on the 2024 rate cut narrative. He almost endorsed it, which leads us to question whether he knows something of sig...

2023-12-08 08:45:00 ET Stock Traders Daily has produced this trading report using a proprietary method.  This methodology seeks to optimize the entry and exit levels to maximize results and limit risk, and it is also applied to Index options, ETFs, and futures for our subscribers. This...

2023-12-06 21:55:00 ET Summary Right now, the stock market is blowing out the 20 years from 1980 to 2000 on a specific performance metric. The last two decades have witnessed firms with a 0% dividend yield outperforming the highest yielders by a larger amount than at any time in p...

2023-12-01 08:25:00 ET Summary Wall Street economists predict a "soft landing" or no recession in 2024, despite recessionary indicators suggesting otherwise. The yield curve inversion is a warning sign of a recession, with the un-inversion marking the start of the recession. O...

2023-11-24 07:30:00 ET Summary The bond market's obsession with the rate cycle should blind it from fiscal deficit worries. A rate-cutting cycle typically results in positive total returns right out the curve, with the best of those in longer tenors. We're expecting that for m...

2023-11-24 06:55:00 ET Summary Even though the US Treasury has taken some pressure off longer tenors by morphing new issuance towards shorter tenors, the size of the fiscal deficit still matters for the bond market. For any given Fed funds rate, it means a steeper curve from the b...

2023-11-21 23:34:27 ET Summary Treasury Bonds have rallied in recent weeks but remain on a broader downtrend. In contrast with relatively resilient economic data, far too many rate cuts have been priced into the curve at this point. With fundamental issues around the deficit a...

2023-11-21 09:48:00 ET Summary From the standpoint of systematic monetary policy, the Federal Funds rate remains below, not above, levels that have historically been consistent with prevailing core inflation, output, employment, and sales. Emphatically, our investment discipline i...