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The Federal Reserve System has stretched itself to provide a cushion for the current economy crisis so as to minimize the extent of the downturn. Liquidity has been the first issue. Can the Federal Reserve provide the financial markets and financial institutions with sufficient liquidity so ...
In the last 2-3 months, central banks have transitioned to their most dovish stances on record. Gone is the muted central bank language; instead, they are using strong language to communicate the depth of the damage caused by lockdowns. Inflation is a non-issue; banks are instead flooding the ...
The news headlines are full of the Covid-19 pandemic and civil disturbances while there is little attention paid to the enormous increase in the federal debt. All the financial measures enacted to help lessen the painful impact of the lockdowns put in place to fight the pandemic have to be fin...
So much of the mainstream financial media focuses on the stock market, and yet the corporate bond markets, and that would include securitized product and even municipal bonds, have (in my opinion) a huge information vacuum for the smaller advisor or individual investor. The corporate bond ma...
Dollar-denominated financial markets appeared to suffer a dramatic change on or about March 23. This article examines the possibility that it marks the beginning of the end for the Fed's dollar. At this stage of an evolving economic and financial crisis, such thoughts are necessarily specula...
Every time I questioned the stability, legitimacy or sustainability of the bull market that ended in February, I was told "Don't fight the Fed." Even today, after a historic bear-market rally that has the most optimistic convinced that the secular bull market is still alive and well, I am told...
In this latest survey, 68 leading bond and currency managers considered valuations, expectations and outlooks for the coming months. In our February survey , which now seems like a lifetime ago, managers recognized some positive market developments despite the backdrop of a slowing global e...
By Eric Leininger The U.S. Treasury issued $20 billion in new 20-year bond s on May 20, the first such issuance since 1986. This new 20-year bond slotted into a part of the yield curve where only decade-old 30-year bonds trade. On June 17, the Treasury issued another $17 billion of the sa...
By Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D. To no one's surprise, the FOMC in its June meeting reaffirmed its 0-25 basis-point target for the federal funds rate. Markets did not react well, especially since the announcement came on the heels of a fairly downbeat assessment by Chairman Powell regarding the ...
Editor's note: Originally published at tsi-blog.com on June 17, 2020. [This blog post is an excerpt from a recent TSI commentary] The year-over-year rate of growth in US True Money Supply ((TMS)), a.k.a. the US monetary inflation rate, has continued its journey "to da moon." Based on...
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NEW YORK , Aug. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Direxion continually reviews its product range to ensure it's meeting the needs of our clients. Based upon a recent review, the Board of Trustees of the Direxion Shares ETF Trust has decided to liquidate and close 15 ETFs (each, a "Fund" and c...