FLGV News and Press, Franklin Liberty U.S. Treasury Bond From 07/28/21

The Federal Reserve left monetary policy unchanged, but there is a subtle yet significant change in the language that hints we are on the path toward a tapering of the Fed’s QE asset purchases. That’s not to say we are going to see an imminent taper. US employment levels...

Fed keeps key interest rate steady. Fed now at least talking about tapering large-scale asset purchases. Marple: ongoing pandemic is at least as much of a supply shock as a demand one. For further details see: Fed Holds On Rates, But Says Economy Making Progress Despite ...

Recently, downticks in Treasury yields are being met with selling pressure in value indexes and stocks. The stock market can’t make up its mind. Does it want high yields or low yields? This confusion is because inflation numbers are rising and interest rates are falling, which ...

The biggest beneficiary of the Covid-19 Delta variant fear is bond yields, since the 10-year Treasury bond decisively “cracked” the 1.2% level last week and actually hit a low of 1.133% on Tuesday. This means that either inflation fears are ebbing or there is a flight to qua...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down nearly 1000 points at the low Monday and closed down 725, a loss of a little over 2%. The S&P 500 did a little better but closed down 1.5%. The markets rose through the rest of the week and ended on a high note. So, you got your chance to ...

When Paul Volcker fought inflation, the way he did it was letting interest rates go higher than the inflation rate. It can take years for inflation to show up, or go away, after a Fed policy change. Having interest rates below the inflation rate is once again encouraging inflation...

Fortunately, the current year has been a bit kinder to prognosticators than the previous one. The bull market that began in 2009 didn’t end when the coronavirus panic pushed the S&P 500 down 34 percent from its previous high. The post-Covid rally, and particularly the fasci...

Vix spikes as volatility rattles the Dow. The advantage of using options strategies when markets turn volatile. How investors can use sector rotations. For further details see: Navigating Market Uncertainty And Higher Volatility

Reverse repurchase agreements remove funds from the overnight lending market, thereby preventing banks from using these funds to support a drawing down of reserves by marginal expansion of credit. Credit expansion may produce inflation. To the extent that accumulation of reserves prev...

Since last November’s vaccine news, financial markets have been "hanging ten" on a swell of cyclical, value and small-cap stocks, and rising Treasury yields. Crosswinds started to grow in the second quarter, however, as economic and inflation data ran hot: rising yields stalled...