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By Kevin Flanagan The Federal Reserve (Fed) has responded yet again, but this time around, the policymakers made sure their message was heard loud and clear around the globe. Let's just say, the Fed has gone nuclear! For the third time, the Fed made an inter-meeting move by cutting the ...
Overview Through the great inflation period of the late 1970s and for about thirty years prior all bonds taken broadly as an asset class were widely considered to be “certificates of confiscation” The portfolio losses were persistent and seemingly endless. But near the end ...
It's possible "we will see some Treasurys trade at negative yields in the front-end when markets reopen," BMO strategist Jon Hill tells Bloomberg. More news on: iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF, ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury ETF, iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF, News on the ...
Investment thesis: This week, the entire bond market sold off, in some cases sharply. That, combined with the potential liquidity problems in the Treasury market, make any new investments in the bond market a bad idea right now. The New York Federal Reserve began an extraordinary market li...
By Philip Lawlor, managing director, Global Markets Research The coronavirus outbreak and subsequent market panic has turned investors into Donald Rumsfelds - attempting to price the "known unknowns". A few weeks ago - even as news of coronavirus spread - equity investors were celebratin...
Anyone who is knowledgeable and plain-speaking will tell you that the negative economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak will probably be big, that monetary policy will be of little use to counteract it, and that co-ordination between political leaders and central bankers is both essential a...
In a week replete with chaotic movements and arrangements, a puzzle has emerged. Conventional wisdom says that when stocks tank, bonds rally. While the latter takes place regardless of the former, during those times when the NYSE finally pays attention to what might be herding financial agents...
By Robert Hughes AIER's Everyday Price Index fell 0.2 percent in February after posting a 0.3 percent increase in January. The Everyday Price index has been flat or down in six of the last nine months. The Everyday Price Index measures price changes people see in everyday purchases such as...
When the World Health Organization announced on February 24th that it was time to prepare for a global pandemic, the stock market plummeted. Over the following week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by more than 3,500 points or over 10%. In an attempt to contain the damage, on March ...
Overview: After the Bank of England and the UK Treasury announced both monetary and fiscal support, the focus turns to the ECB, but the proximity of the US Congressional recess (next week) without strong fiscal measures being in place sucked the oxygen away from other issues. President Trump...