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We have a healthy labor market, and it’s hard to have a recession when the labor market is on fire. If you go back to 1970, there’s been the same number of examples where an oil price spike year-over-year of 60% occurred that led to a recession, and the same number of ex...

Despite these changing circumstances, both the European Central Bank (ECB) and the US Federal Reserve maintained interest rate suppression policies well into the supply-led inflation spike. The Fed’s guidance as to how it would unwind its balance sheet - at $95 billion per mont...

Exchange traded funds related to bonds have fallen sharply in 2022, as the Federal Reserve's policy tightening has sparked a significant increase in treasury yields. According to Bloomberg data, 98% of the 503 fixed income ETFs have lost ground during the year so far.  As U.S. Treasury y...

Supply shocks have created scarcity inflation, making higher inflation more persistent and increasing the risk of a growth slowdown. Ten-year U.S. Treasury yields hit three-year highs after it became clear the Fed will start to reduce its balance sheet quickly. We see further yield ri...

The broader equity categories turned in negative results in Q1. U.S. large-cap stocks, as measured by the S&P 500 Index, held up the best at a decline of 4.6%. Bonds performed worse than many of the equity categories, despite typically being viewed as a safe haven investment. In t...

As investors continue to digest the likely path of this tightening cycle, we think the dramatic moves of recent weeks are set to ease, laying a good foundation for credit investors. We now expect the Fed to hike rates by 50 basis points in both May and June, followed by a sequence of ...

Does the yield curve inversion cause a recession or does it just provide a signal? Is the inversion only about expected future monetary policy? Do other factors also influence the shape of the curve, and if so, can we disentangle the various factors? There is a lot that we don’...

The U.S. government finances its spending by collecting taxes and issuing debt. A steep curve reflects expectations of higher inflation and interest rates that come with a more robust economy. Even in a recession, some sectors do well while others do poorly. For further deta...

One of the main stories in the money and bond markets of late has been the development of inverted yield curves in the Treasury (UST) market. The Fed just finished purchasing almost $5 trillion in securities. Equally as important, the U.S. economy is in rather solid shape, a fact ...

If USTs are upside down, we shouldn’t expect to find outright contradictions elsewhere in places like Japan or Germany. Yields in Germany too have gone vertical over the past few months. Unsurprisingly, the higher Treasuries go, the more they tug on bunds (10s) and bobls (5s) a...