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By Erik Knutzen, Chief Investment Officer—Multi-Asset Class As the Fed turns more dovish, a familiar fairy-tale heroine returns - but will there be another happy ending? When Tim Berners-Lee conceived of the World Wide Web 30 years ago, he probably wasn't thinking about how vita...

The question we are getting this weekend is why did the market go down so much on Friday? The answer is the yield curve. What is the yield curve and why should I care? Remember when you bought your first house? If you were like me, you sat at a table or box in the house and counted change to s...

This weekly chart of the iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF (AGG), shows it bumping into formidable resistance at the 200-week moving average. For readers, 44% of the AGG is "Government" with 39% of the 44% Being Treasuries, 25% of the AGG is corporate credit risk and 26% is "securitized" ...

If you are not immersed in the parlance of nautical warning, I will elucidate. " Batten down the hatches " is an order a captain barks to his crew when his ship is in peril because of rough weather. I'd say CNBC and most other media covering the daily ups and downs of the market were in the sa...

It is a big economic calendar with almost every report on housing released in a single week. This is the result of the shutdown delay. Now we can get more clarity on this important sector. Pundits will be asking: Are lower mortgage rates helping home sales? Last Week Recap In last w...

The news coming out of the bond market at the end of the week was the inversion of the yield curve. The concern: every time the yield curve has been inverted in modern times, the US economy has always gone into a recession. Let me just issue a word of caution here. We are in a new era. T...

To my best knowledge and years of experience in the markets, the Friday's unnerved session is just that, an anxious day after what seems to be a U-turn by the Fed. I am an old-school macro-guy. That means that when the Fed signalizes a dovish stance, I see it as a positive for stocks. If last ...

By OpenMarkets Weak data out of Germany and a dovish Fed is causing some concern among market participants, says Jack Bouroudjian. Meanwhile, the yield curve has inverted. Jack covers the role sovereign debt is playing ahead of what could be an eventful week for the markets. Editor...

We have been saying for some time now that we are living in a VUCA environment categorized by volatility, uncertainty, chaos and ambiguity. The past is most probably not an indicator of the change to come. It is unpredictable. Nothing showed it more than the market reaction on Friday when the ...

There’s no real nice way to say that I found Wednesday's FOMC minutes to be disgraceful. The only conclusion I’m left with is that Jerome Powell has capitulated and is now scared of either the market turning on him, the president turning on him or both. Otherwise, how do you expl...