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2024-05-14 06:25:00 ET Summary Quantitative tightening (QT) has been underway since June 2022, with the Fed shrinking its balance sheet in order to bring reserves and liquidity in the financial system back down to more normal levels. The overnight reverse repo facility is now gett...

2024-05-14 00:55:00 ET Summary Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari issued an essay saying that the recent inflation data raise questions about whether their monetary policy is restrictive enough to fully return price growth to the central bank’s 2% target rate. Kashkari...

2024-05-14 00:15:00 ET Summary While oversimplifying any formula in the financial markets tends to backfire more often than not, good inflation numbers tend to deliver new highs for the S&P 500. My thesis is that we put in a bottom in April, which should, hold with a dovish Fe...

2024-05-13 12:20:00 ET Summary While Japanese stocks have gotten a lot of press, it is Europe and EM stocks leading the international markets. In the US over the last three months, it is value stocks, including small and mid cap, that are outperforming. The dollar and interest...

2024-05-13 11:58:05 ET Summary The Treasury curve was up 6 basis points at 2 years and was unchanged at 10 years over the last week. As a result, the current negative 2-year/10-year Treasury spread widened to negative 37 basis points this week, compared to negative 31 basis points...

2024-05-13 09:15:00 ET Summary We believe high nominal growth, peak rates and broadening earnings performance continue to underpin equity market performance. While slower growth and higher inflation can be seen as having some stagflation characteristics, we remain convinced that i...

2024-05-13 02:32:00 ET Summary While the capital markets and the media react far more to the actual inflation data, ultimately it’s inflation expectations that matter more. There is a growing awareness of the “tightness” of corporate high yield credit, which i...

2024-05-12 13:57:40 ET More on the markets SPY ETF: Momentum Is In The Cards SPY: Get Ready For A Recessionary Bear Market SPY: Growing Signs The Market Is Overbought Wells Fargo sees increasing risk that the Fed will need to hold rates at current levels ...

2024-05-12 13:52:24 ET Summary Stanley Druckenmiller lambasted Janet Yellen for not issuing long-term bonds during the pandemic to lock in low interest rates. Todd G. Buchholz, James Carter, and Jim Bianco also criticized U.S. Treasury for not extending average maturity of debt. ...

2024-05-12 11:41:48 ET Summary Investors are focused on the Dow Jones winning streak and are ignoring the upcoming CPI report for April 2024, scheduled for release on Wednesday. The CPI report will provide insight into the Federal Reserve's potential interest rate policy. Ener...