PST News and Press, ProShares UltraShort Lehman 7-10 Year Treasury From 02/28/24

2024-02-28 10:24:00 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...

2024-02-25 11:52:00 ET Summary Investment-grade CDS traded down to 51 bps Thursday, the low back to December 31, 2021. High yield CDS sank to 336 bps, the low since February 1, 2022. Nvidia added $155 billion of market capitalization (reaching $2 TN), as stocks surged further into...

2024-02-24 02:08:00 ET Summary The first part of the body of the minutes focused on evidence regarding the current state of the economy, employment, and inflation. The most interesting part of the minutes related to how participants viewed the economy and the appropriate path for ...

2024-02-22 12:30:00 ET Summary Both US Consumer Price Index and US Producer Price Index data for January were hotter than expected, but it was no cause for concern, in my opinion. The most recent gross domestic product prints for Japan and the UK show that both economies were tech...

2024-02-21 11:11:00 ET Summary The latest inflation data is sticky, but the markets have only delayed rather than canceled expectations for that the Federal Reserve will start trimming interest rates in the near future. The Treasury market continues to price in rate cuts as well, ...

2024-02-21 00:04:00 ET Summary Clearly, the markets believe the next move will be toward lower rates, but no one should be surprised by the fact that a rate increase is possible. Two years ago, almost no one correctly forecast the recent path of interest rates. Recent policy e...

2024-02-20 20:20:00 ET Summary The biggest economic news last week was that the Labor Department reported on Tuesday that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.3% in January and 3.1% in the past 12 months. Overall, the annual pace of the CPI continues to decelerate, but not at the...

2024-02-20 15:19:00 ET Summary Investing has numerous known unknowns and unknown unknowns, making it difficult to know anything for sure. The only things we know for sure in investing are the things we can directly observe. The movements of interest rate and the dollar are, at...

2024-02-20 13:50:00 ET Summary We think market optimism can persist for now but stay nimble. We get more active in our long-term portfolios given a greater dispersion of returns. U.S. stocks steadied after a brief dip on stronger-than-expected inflation data last week. We think th...

2024-02-20 07:00:00 ET Summary The resilience of the U.S. economy during 2023 owed much to low unemployment and excess savings built up through the pandemic. Excess savings may still be out there, but only among those on middle and higher incomes. Inflation in non-discretionar...