RINF News and Press, ProShares Inflation Expectations

2024-07-18 06:30:00 ET Summary More data was released indicating greater disinflationary progress in the US - which, in my view, means we will get a Federal Reserve rate cut this quarter. I think this will be a rather positive earnings season. S&P 500 companies are forecasted ...

2024-07-17 22:10:00 ET Summary The combination of the Great Financial Crisis period and the Covid era created some of the most interesting economic experiments in history, which also resulted in some of the worst narratives in finance and economics. In the wake of the Financial Cr...

2024-07-17 21:45:00 ET Summary Government borrowing and the national debt are barely getting a mention in the US election campaign, yet a failure to change trajectory risks further debt downgrades, more market volatility and higher borrowing costs. This will pose ec...

2024-07-17 08:30:00 ET Summary Explore key themes from our Secular Outlook, including fiscal policy, geopolitical risks, AI, and upcoming elections, and learn how these factors could shape the future of fixed income markets. 2024 elections obviously can potentially be a disruptor ...

2024-07-17 07:00:00 ET Summary The reordering of US election outcomes led to a bear steepening in US treasuries. The global easing cycle kicked off with the European Central Bank, Bank of Canada, Riksbank, and Swiss National Bank all beginning interest rate cuts. Financial mar...

2024-07-17 04:35:00 ET Summary The US economy is still growing (positive GDP) but growth has slowed and signs of weakness are apparent. This should not be a surprise: the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by about 5.5% between Spring of 2022 and Summer of 2023 in an attempt to slo...

2024-07-17 03:40:00 ET Summary While stocks of large US companies have done well over the last few years, stocks of small US companies are negative. Year-to-date, the cap-weighted S&P 500 has returned 3 times the return of the S&P 500 Equal-Weight. Although the S&P...

2024-07-16 10:40:00 ET Summary Improving news on the inflation front will likely spur the Fed to kick off rate cuts earlier than we previously projected. Inflation’s cooling late last year encouraged the market to price in as many as six rate cuts this year. With inflat...

2024-07-16 07:30:00 ET Summary Velocity of money - the speed at which money flows through the economy is often tied to speculation about the future of inflation. Today, small businesses are suffering the most pain of cost increases since larger enterprises have a lot more ability ...

2024-07-16 02:20:00 ET Summary Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said in his Senate appearance that he was encouraged by evidence of cooler inflation and that more “good data” would help get the Fed to where it wants to be. Powell also said the environment for rate cuts is ...