Just In Time For The Taper: Treasury Cuts Long-Term Debt Sales For The First Time Since 2016 Heading into today's Treasury refunding announcement, consensus expected Janet...
Does a period of unmanageable debt, runaway energy prices, job instability and a choppy green transition sound like an age of optimism to you?
The macro highlights for the week ahead fall into three categories. First are the preliminary estimates for Q3 GDP by the US and the EMU. Second,...
Overview: While equities and bonds are firmer, it is the dollar's sell-off that stands out today. The greenback has retreated broadly. The euro is trading...
Distraction As Policy While Our Economic Rome Burns Authored by Matthew Piepenberg via GoldSwitzerland.com, Desperation and distraction are masquerading as economic policy. Below we see how...
Domestic energy supply shortages in Europe and dependence on volatile global markets are contributing to record gas prices across the continent. In the US, the latest...
Futures Slide As Soaring Oil Nears $85 While cash bonds may be closed today for Columbus Day, which may or may not be a holiday -...
Britain’s 10-year gilt yield climbed to 1.152 per cent, its highest level since May… The post Inflation worries feed through to stock, bond markets first appeared...
The Australian dollar has started the new trading week in positive territory, continuing the upswing which started on Thursday. Currently, AUD/USD is trading at 0.7283, up...
The US dollar was driven higher in September by two main factors. The first was the anticipation of the Federal Reserve continuing to move toward tapering...
The Canadian dollar is drifting ahead of the North American session. Currently, USD/CAD is trading at 1.2692, up 0.10% on the day. The US dollar has looked...
Futures Rebound As Yields Drop U.S. index futures rebounded on Tuesday from Monday's stagflation-fear driven rout as an increase in Treasury yields abated and the greenback...
The British pound has extended its losses in the Wednesday session. GBP/USD is currently trading at 1.36485, down 0.36% on the day. Pound slides on petrol...
After a summer of drifting lower and then holding in a range, the benchmark 10-year US Treasury yield is running higher this month. Does the jump...
Pelosi Vows To Avert Shutdown As Dems Reportedly Cave To "Republican Blockade" Yesterday, when we laid out the dynamics behind Biden's game of debt limit chicken,...
Does The Fed Really Want A "Bond Market Tantrum"? Authored by Michael Maharrey via SchiffGold.com, A Reuters article by Stefano Rebaudo argued that the Federal Reserve might welcome a “bond...
Overview: The week is winding down and risk-appetites seem vulnerable even though the MSCI Asia Pacific Index pared its first weekly loss in four, led by...
Futures Coiled Ahead Of Critical CPI Print Having come dangerously close to dropping 6 days in a row, the longest streak since Feb 2020, US stock-index...
Futures Rebound After Biden, Xi Chat Global stocks rose and S&P futures rebounded from a freak selling episode late on Thursday after news that Joe Biden...
Overview: The US dollar is paring this week's gains, retreating against most of the major and emerging market currencies today amid a risk-on mood. Inconclusive talks...
Now is the time for investors to seek out information on how to identify the tell-tale signs of bear markets and how to profit from them,...
Wall Street edged lower overnight as markets shuffled between concerns over the US recovery after a downbeat Fed Beige Book and tapering nerves after the New...
Quinn: "This War On COVID Will Never End" Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A...
Over 7 Million Lose Unemployment Benefits As Pandemic Programs Expire Today While the labor picture in America has greatly improved since the American Rescue Plan was...
Inflation Is A Monetary Curse Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, Remarkably, in a speech on monetary policy given at the Jackson Hole conference last Friday,...
The US dollar was driven to new highs for the year in recent weeks by a combination of another signal that the Federal Reserve was still...
"Rapidly Becoming Untenable" - Eurozone Finances Have Deteriorated Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, Despite negative interest rates and money printing by the European Central Bank,...
Rabobank: Welcome To The Mismatch Economy, The Implications Are Huge By Elwin de Groot, head of macro strategy at Rabobank Welcome to the Mismatch Economy! A...
Forget The Fed And Jackson Hole: Treasury Is About To Unleash $500 Billion Quantitative Tightening Three weeks ago, moments after the Treasury released its latest Treasury...
Rabobank: Virtually There By Jane Foley, head FX strategist at Rabobank Central bankers who had been expecting to be visiting the Grand Teton National Park, just...