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By Joseph V. Amato, President and Chief Investment Officer - Equities Is the bond market cautious or confused? Is the equity market confident or complacent? The first quarter of 2019 came to a close last week with an episode that typified the financial market confusion of the past thre...

By Marcelo Perez Editor’s Note: The summary bullets for this article were chosen by Seeking Alpha Read more ...

A very dull week so you can chalk one more up for the bulls. The longer the bulls can hold this higher ground the more likely this range resolves itself higher. Last week we mentioned that many investing professionals did not buy into the rally and expected a retest of the December lows. When ...

Interpreting the Yield Curve Generally speaking, the yield curve refers to varying yields on U.S. treasury bills, notes and bonds. It can be used in describing other fixed-income securities, but for the purposes of this article, we will focus on treasury securities. Before we get into why ...

A Run For The Highs Friday wrapped up the first quarter of 2019, and it was the best quarterly performance since 2009. As shown in the chart below, if you bought the bottom, you are " killing it." However, you didn't. Despite all of the media "hoopla" about the rally, the realit...

From the global bubble perspective, it was one extraordinary quarter worthy of chronicling in some detail. The "Everything Rally," indeed. Markets turned even more highly synchronized - across the globe and across asset classes. As the quarter progressed, it seemingly regressed into a contest ...

What happened last week. What we're watching for next week. You all know by now that I try to make this article as brief and to the point as possible so that busy people can get a sense of what's happening in the market quickly. This week I'm focusing on two things: the inverted yield ...

When you're young and you fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age, you splatter. - Roy Rogers A lot of people in the bond markets have recently fallen off their horse. They called and called for higher yields based upon the Fed's statements in the Fall and Winter,...

Last year, I wrote an article entitled "The Upcoming Bond Bull Market," which, at the time, was pushing against the mainstream consensus which was predicting rates could only go higher. I am updating that article with the latest data points as the overall thesis of "why" we have remained bu...

It is a convoluted world. Negative yielding bonds have climbed since September and now compose about 19% of the world's bond markets. Whoever, in their right minds, thought that a lender would pay the borrower? We now have over $10.07 trillion, up from $5.7 trillion in early 2018, of negativel...