VRIG News and Press, Invesco Variable Rate Investment Grade ETF From 02/15/19

If you are a regular reader of mine, you know that I am a strident critic of monetary policy in our country and that I have been immensely skeptical of our Federal Reserve for (in my opinion) being beholden to daily moves in the stock market to help it set what is supposed to be longer-term mo...

On Friday, the CFTC posted its COT data for the first week in 2019. For crude oil, capitulation . For US Treasury bond futures, capitulation. In the latter financial market, unsurprisingly, the net market position utterly collapsed during December. From a relatively high (meaning market overa...

By Jill Mislinski Note: We've updated this commentary with data through the February 8th market close. The yield on the 10-year note ended February 8, 2019, at 2.63% and the 30-year bond closed at 2.97%. Here is a table showing the highs and lows of yields, and the FFR since 2007 as ...

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...

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...

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...

Whether you are a businessman or an ordinary citizen concerned about what’s going on in the world, the yield curve is something you should care about. The yield curve is probably the single best indicator of where markets are headed, perhaps the best indicator of an upcoming recession. ...