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By OpenMarkets Along with the Federal Reserve meeting this week come meetings from the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England. All of these gatherings will determine global interest rates for some time to come. Jack Bouroudjian discusses how that affects markets and the search for yiel...
Over the last several weeks, global and domestic interest rates have been in free-fall, with the US 10-year Treasury rate nearing 2.0% and the German 10-year interest rate falling to -0.30%. I have been a vocal bull of Treasury bonds, fighting the consensus opinion that "bonds are expensive...
Over the last three weeks , we have discussed the "sellable rally" in the markets. However, one of the more stunning movements in the market was in interest rates which have fallen sharply in recent months as "deflation" and "economic weakness" have become points of concern for the Federal Re...
By James Knightley With trade tensions likely to escalate, this Wednesday's Fed meeting looks set to confirm market expectations - precautionary interest rate cuts are coming. After hiking interest rates four times in 2018, the Federal Reserve has taken a more cautious approach to ...
This article is a wake-up call for those who do not understand the true purpose of monetary inflation, and do not realise they are the suckers being robbed by monetary policy. With the world facing a deepening recession, monetary inflation will accelerate again. It is time for everyone to reco...
The US deficit this year is already over three-quarters of a trillion dollars, putting the first eight months of the fiscal year almost equal with the entire past fiscal year. It is also $200 billion above the previous record for this portion of the year, and this May's deficit alone was 40% h...
"Wednesday's Child" comes from the nursery rhyme of the 19th century that was supposedly used in the area of fortune telling by the day of one's birth in rhyme. "Wednesday's Child" is said to be "full of woe." Seems fitting that this Wednesday will conclude one of the most (yes, most!) impor...
When the market falls in the trap of wishful thinking History warns us about not confusing what is true versus what we wish to be true , as Ray Dalio identified in his book Principles. Yet wishful thinking - the attribution of reality to what one wants to believe - is one of the most co...
Investment thesis The basic thesis is that it takes bulls to make a bull market, and the long bond ( TLT ) now has both the technical and fundamental backdrop to complete the bull market move it has made since the bottom of the bond bear market last October. I'll begin with some technical po...
Originally published June 14, 2019 My couch, jeans, car, PC, sheets, and phone weigh in on globalization and the internet. Retail sales, not including sales at restaurants and bars, in May rose 3.1% from a year earlier, according to the Commerce Department this morning. That's not ex...