UBT News and Press, ProShares Ultra 20+ Year Treasury From 08/08/23

2023-08-08 06:04:00 ET Summary Bank of England asked former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke to review its economic forecast after it failed so badly to stop inflation. BoE Governor Bailey said Bernanke’s review would help central bankers "take a step back and reflect on where our proces...

2023-08-08 04:02:00 ET Summary The bulk of investors are not currently active. August is normally a low-volume month, but it appears we are not in normal times. There appears to be less conviction as to where we are going. A reasonable bet is that the majority of opinions regardin...

2023-08-08 00:01:00 ET Summary The tough part to the CPI / PPI data the last 18 months, is that the “compares” for the CPI get tougher as we move through 2023, since CPI inflation peaked in June ’22. One of the problems with hyper-focus on any particular set o...

2023-08-07 18:55:00 ET Summary The stock market was down a little over 2% last week in what may be the start of a larger correction. In the 1970 recession, rates rose right until the onset of recession and hit a new high for that cycle during the recession. The employment repo...

2023-08-07 13:30:00 ET Summary We see emerging markets better withstanding volatility and benefiting as supply chains rewire. We switch our EM debt preference to hard currency from local. Developed market stocks slid last week and long-term bond yields jumped as markets focused on...

2023-08-06 03:41:00 ET Summary The US economy continued to move forward in July, although some portions, especially manufacturing, are stumbling. While job growth remained solid in June, nonfarm payrolls rose by 209,000 for June, the smallest increase since the end of the Covid re...

2023-08-06 03:35:00 ET Summary The two-year versus 10-year Treasury spread narrowed 20 bps this week, the largest narrowing since the banking crisis week of March 17th. The market's probability for a 25 bps rate increase at the Fed’s September 20th meeting dropped from 19% ...

2023-08-06 02:50:00 ET Summary Fitch Ratings downgraded the US government's credit rating to AA+ from AAA, citing the large government deficit and the standoff over the debt ceiling. The downgrade is reminiscent of the 2011 downgrade by Standard & Poor's, which led to a drop i...

2023-08-05 07:45:00 ET Stock Traders Daily has produced this trading report using a proprietary method.  This methodology seeks to optimize the entry and exit levels to maximize results and limit risk, and it is also applied to Index options, ETFs, and futures for our subscribers. This...

2023-08-04 03:11:00 ET Summary The feud between the unions and the movie/television studios centers around demands for higher pay, better working conditions, and protections from AI technologies, which could theoretically replace actors and writers. The stock market continued its ...