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Editor's note: Originally published at tsi-blog.com on March 26, 2019. I haven't discussed gold's true fundamentals* at the TSI Blog since early December of last year, at which time I concluded : "All things considered, for the first time in many months the true fundamentals appear to b...

This is really getting out of hand. For the fourth day in a row, unofficially, Effective Federal Funds, or EFF, remains above IOER. At the same, now the 10-year UST yields less. What was last week pretty concerning stuff before the Fed's capitulation is this week whatever category lies below. ...

By OpenMarkets Following a big drop in equity markets Friday, Jack Bouroudjian discusses why trading on Tuesday and Wednesday this week could indicate how the market behaves heading into the beginning of the second quarter. Jack also reminds us why we should continue to watch the yiel...

By Liz Ann Sonders Investors developed a case of the blues on Friday when the yield curve went into the red; but the history around yield curve inversions shows a wide swath of grey area. For the first time since mid-2007, the 10-year to 3-month (10y-3m) portion of the U.S. Treasury yield ...

It's happened… The 10yr/3m yield curve has inverted. The party is over folks. Sell your stocks, horde your cash, pack your bags and go home. Recession is imminent… The mainstream financial news and twitter "market experts" have nailed it. The top is in. It's nice knowing th...

Is it different this time? Popular measures of the yield curve, including the 10-year vs. 3-month Treasury spread, have inverted which has caused interest rates to move to the front page. Interest rates are always on my front page in terms of analyzing markets and we accurately predicted t...

The U.S. Week Ahead (Mar 25-Apr 1) Several voting members of the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee ((FOMC)) will grace podiums across the globe in the week ahead to discuss the U.S. economy and monetary policy. The long list of prepared remarks and Q&A’s follows the FOMC&#...

The Next Big Letdown for Stocks. Walls Street is hoping for rate cuts and a new bout of QE, expecting that a recession will force the Fed's hand. Stocks have surged for three months based on that hope for a recession, rate cuts, and QE. But what if the Fed stopped tightening too soon, and ...

Bear markets for U.S. equities, including the one which began on August 31, 2018 for the Russell 2000, feature repeated market overreactions which occur much more rapidly and consistently than in bull markets. Investors will become increasingly confused as to what is happening and will repeate...

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...