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On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Senior Investment Strategist Paul Eitelman and Head of AIS Business Solutions Sophie Antal Gilbert discussed recent volatility in equity markets, slumping bond yields and the U.S. recession outlook. Markets sink as Trump announces tariffs...

On Friday, the stock market closed down making May the worst month for stocks this year. The Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index closed at 2,752, down from the historic highs hit toward the end of April. And, with the growing threat of major tariff changes, the probability that ther...

By Bluford Putnam The U.S. has had an extended and very impressive rally in the prices of U.S. Treasury securities. The 10-year U.S. Treasury has seen its yield move from a recent high of 3.23% in early October 2018, down to 2.22% at the end of May 2019. One of the most important questions...

JPMorgan strategists catch up with market expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates twice this year. More news on: iShares MSCI Mexico Capped ETF, Mexico Fund, Invesco 1-30 Laddered Treasury Portfolio ETF, News on the U.S. economy, News on ETFs, Read more ...

By Ansh Chaudhary The 3-month and 10-year Treasury yield curve inverted on Wednesday. CNBC writes : The yield curve inversion between the 3-month Treasury bill and the 10-year note widened to its deepest level since the financial crisis, with investors now expecting a 13 basis point pr...

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, many people thought excessive government spending and the resulting debt would bring inflation or even hyperinflation. We wanted a hawkish Federal Reserve or, better yet, a gold standard to prevent it. Reality turned out differently. Federal debt rose steadily,...

Unlike most articles that have the President's name in the title, this note will not be political in nature but rather will discuss some facts regarding the trade dispute with China and our trading relationship with the rest of the world. I want to outline one of the problems that the admini...

By Craig Hemke "The writing is on the wall." "What is past is prologue." "History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes." Yada, yada, yada... So, to the title of this post: what is the bond market telling you? Well, let's look at the current structure of the yield curve: Fed Funds overnight ...

Scarcely a day goes by without a flood of new articles in the financial media expressing shock and disbelief over Treasury yields. It's not just that they are wrong, these say, it's that they have to be wrong. What they are implying just isn't compatible with the what "everyone" is expecte...

Morgan Stanley calculates that an adjusted yield curve -- that takes into account quantitative easing and tightening -- has been inverted for the past six months. More news on: VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Medium-Term ETN, iPath S&P 500 VIX Mid-Term Futures ETN, ProShares VIX Mid...