Watch Live: Powell Positions Himself As Populist Crusader In Senate Confirmation Hearing Jay Powell's big day has finally arrived. After being officially nominated for a second...
Daily take-up at the overnight reverse repo (ON RRP) facility increased from less than $1 billion in early March 2021 to just under $2 trillion on...
Economists expect that US consumer inflation will continue to tick higher in tomorrow’s December report (scheduled for Wed., Jan. 12). Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve continues to...
Much of the market’s performance is highly tied to the current narrative, be it bullish or bearish or a mixture of both, depending on the headlines...
Key Events In The "Massive Week Ahead" After a relatively quiet start to the year on the economic event front, if not in markets where last...
In a series of four posts, we review key elements of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy implementation framework. The framework has changed markedly in the last...
The dollar was high and going higher. Emerging markets had been seriously complaining. In one, the top central banker for India outright warned, “dollar funding has...
December Payrolls Huge Miss Again, Just 199K Jobs Added, As Unemployment Rate Tumbles With everyone bulled up on the December jobs print which was expected to...
The US 10-year Treasury yield rose to a nine-month high on Thursday (Jan. 6), which may be a prelude to setting a new pandemic high in...
A Tale Of Two QTs Yesterday’s FOMC minutes confirmed that the Fed is serious about launch an early runoff of their massive, nearly-$9 trillion balance sheet....
The actions that promoted economic growth are now starting to reverse. So why are tech stocks down as a result? Keep reading to find out more....
After a positive start to the New Year, valuations of risk assets fell as markets priced a more hawkish policy from the US Federal Reserve. ...
The US dollar index (DXY) moved sideways after the Federal Reserve published minutes of the past meeting. It is trading at $96.15, where it has been...
Sentiment indicators like PMI’s are nice and all, but they’re hardly top-tier data. It’s certainly not their fault, these things are made for very times than...
FOMC Minutes Shows Hawkish Fed Hiking "Faster Than Anticipated", Warn Of Omicron Risks Tl;dr: The FOMC Minutes are considerably more hawkish than expected in terms of...
Is The Bond Bloodbath Over? Technicals, Inflation, & Fed Whispers Bond bulls had the jam stolen from their donut to start 2022, but the question is...
Brace For The Italian Soap Opera By Stefan Koopman, senior macro strategist at Rabobank Italian Soap Opera The market continues to trade omicron with a glass...
From a technical point of view, a clear move back above $80 seems to be unlikely as of now given this area’s importance as a psychological...
What's Behind The Surge In Yields That Sent Tech Stocks Tumbling, And What Happens Next For a while it appeared that stocks, and especially giga-techs, were...
Futures Surge To A Record Above 4,800 As Euphoria Grips Global Markets US stock futures, European bourses and Asian markets all rose, extending the blistering start...
Some of the smartest market forecasters, analysts and chief investment officers are predicting that the first half of 2022 could be quite a turbulent time for...
Market Rally Fizzles As Volume Evaporates Tuesday's rally fizzled on Wednesday, as US emini futures were flat after erasing an earlier dip as attention again turned...
One of the growing trends in the US equity market since around 2016 is an increased concentration in the top components in equity indexes, namely...
The Great Reconciliation Of Asset Prices In 2022 Authored by Michael Pento via PentoPort.com, The coming new year will be fraught with risk due to the...
Investors are having to deal with a whipsaw market, where huge price swings and fierce sector rotation are making it very difficult to get a sense...
We have another shortened trading week due to Christmas Eve landing on Friday. Historically, the last few weeks of the year feature low volume, low...
Stocks, Futures, Oil Tumble On Omicron Lockdowns, Manchin Shockwave Global stocks and US equity futures are sharply lower to start the otherwise very quiet holiday week,...
Stocks, Bond Yields Tumble After Manchin "No" On Build Back Better, Goldman Slashes GDP A decisive "no" from Senator Joe Manchin on President Biden's Build Back...
Will markets coast into the new year? Last week was action-packed, dominated by major central bank announcements that in many cases represented a change of direction...
Turbo-Taper Sends Stocks & Bond Yields Lower On The Week The Fed's hawkish statement and Powell's modest 'good cop' effort left rate-hike odds all higher on...