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By Collin Martin As expected, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday kept its key short-term interest rate steady, maintaining the 2.25% to 2.5% target range for the Federal Funds rate.¹ The decision was unanimous. However, although the rate was left unchanged, updates to the Federal Open...

By Timothy Urbanowicz, CFA, Senior Fixed Income ETF Strategist Credit investors faced many headwinds in 2018 as financial conditions tightened, foreign demand faded, and spreads widened. Despite tailwinds from a booming economy and strong earnings growth, most credit sectors saw negati...

During most of 2018, as the stock market seemingly drifted higher each day, equity bulls were empowered to make renewed calls for the end of the bond bull market that has been ongoing since the 1980's when the 30-year Treasury rate was north of 15%. There were also several name notable invest...

The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) recently released their quarterly survey on business conditions which resulted in a more gloomy outlook for sales, pricing, and profits than previous surveys. The respondents in the survey also reported that neither the trade war, nor...

“Kill yourself for recognition Kill yourself to never ever stop You broke another mirror You're turning into something you are not” --High And Dry, Radiohead, 1995 The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 gave corporate earnings a sugar high. GAAP earnings on the S...

It's not too early to ask: Would a U.S. economic slowdown mean political hay for Democratic candidates in 2020? As Hedgeye Demography analyst Neil Howe explains in the video below, he sees the Republicans playing defense, and Democrats on offense for the marathon campaign heading towar...

It was the most common catchphrase of 2017, interest rates have nowhere to go but up. Maybe it was doomed from the start given that Alan Greenspan was among the more prominent commentators expressing this view. In his mind, the bond market was in a bubble and the party was already over. His ...

Interactive Brokers senior market analyst Steven Levine discusses the Fed’s upcoming interest rate decision and subsequent press conference with Interactive Brokers chief options strategist Steve Sosnick, amid the protracted partial U.S. government shutdown. Note : This materia...

The word is that Federal Reserve officials are considering slowing down or stopping altogether the efforts to reduce the size of its securities portfolio, something it began in October 2017. Nick Timiraos writes in the Wall Street Journal, “Federal Reserve officials are near decidin...