TUZ News and Press, PIMCO 1-3 Year U.S. Treasury Index Exchange-Traded Fund From 11/27/19

Negative-interest-rate policies ((NIRP)) have been criticized by some (me included) and pursued by others, including Europeans aligned with former European Central Bank ((ECB)) president Mario Draghi. However, growing numbers of Europeans are becoming disenchanted with NIRP, and some are now s...

By Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist Weekly Market Compass: Four central banks revisit policy, plus two new reports point to a continued global slowdown Last week brought a number of key developments from central banks around the world, from the release of the Federal R...

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes." - Sherlock Holmes I have lately been disturbed by the debt to GDP ratios issued by various governments. I don't think they are accurate. Further, I find the methodology of the ratings agencies flawed, in assess...

By Ryan McMaken The money supply growth rate rose in October, climbing to a twenty-eight-month high. The last time the growth rate was higher was during July of 2017, when the growth rate was 5.07 percent. During October 2019, year-over-year growth in the money supply was at 4.95 percent...

By Mike Gleason Welcome to this week's Market Wrap Podcast, I'm Mike Gleason. Coming up David Morgan of The Morgan Report joins me for another wonderful interview on the state of the metals and the markets. David talks about checking your premises as a metals investor and lays out the ...

By Victor Haghani and James White We are actively competing with nations who openly cut interest rates so that now many are actually getting paid when they pay off their loan, known as negative interest. Who ever heard of such a thing? Give me some of that. Give me some of that money....

The standard (Keynesian) view of the Phillips Curve is that a strong economy leads to higher inflation. If I'm not mistaken, Milton Friedman reversed the causation, arguing that higher than expected inflation led to a stronger economy: There is always a temporary trade-off between inflati...

The U.S. Treasury's auction of $12 billion in a reopened 10-year TIPS generated a real yield to maturity of 0.149%, the lowest for any auction of this maturity since September 2016. This is CUSIP 9128287D6, a 10-year TIPS that had an originating auction on July 18, 2019. It carries a coupon ...

A serious rejection in its first major discussion of negative interest rates recounted in the FOMC minutes. The minutes for the FOMC meeting on October 29-30, released today, shed some light on the laundry list of discussions arising out of the Fed's current review of monetary policy strat...

When you have entered this space, you may be assured that you have gone into some kind of distorted world, possibly created by Aldous Huxley. It may be a "Brave New World," but it may also be a level of Dante's "Inferno." Whatever it eventually turns out to be, it is certainly a historical pro...