paid Bonds • 2 min read A Sunny Day With Storm Clouds Despite the dark news coming out of the Middle East, today was sunny in the bond and stock markets. It&…
paid Oil Price • 2 min read Oil's Slippery Slope The 10-year Treasury bond yield fell for a change today. It peaked at 4.87% at 2:45 am, but…
paid Bonds • 2 min read Why Is the Bond Yield Soaring? The latest batch of economic indicators was weaker than expected. On Friday, we learned that real personal consumption expenditures rose…
paid Week Ahead • 2 min read The Economic Week Ahead: September 25-29 This is a relatively slow week for economic data. That means that the markets will be mostly entertained by the…
paid Economy • 2 min read Good News Is Bad News, For Now The Fed's hawkish pause has unsettled the bond and stock markets. During 2022 and early 2023, the widespread…
paid Inflation • 2 min read Bond Prices Are Tuning Out Some Bad News For Now The good news this morning was that the bond yield held below 4.30% despite rising oil prices and a…
paid Bond Market • 2 min read Bond Vigilantes Running Into Some Resistance The 10-year US Treasury bond yield continues to run into resistance around 4.25%, which was last year's…
paid Week Ahead • 2 min read The Economic Week Ahead: July 3-7 The first week of every month tends to be jampacked with employment and PMI releases. All eyes will be on…
paid Week Ahead • 2 min read The Economic Week Ahead: May 22-26 On Friday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that monetary policy is "restrictive." So Fed policy will be data-dependent,…
paid Surveys • 1 min read New York's Regional Business Survey Shows Lots of Weakness Business activity fell sharply in New York State, according to firms responding to the May 2023 Empire State Manufacturing Survey…
paid Week Ahead • 2 min read The Economic Week Ahead: May 15-19 The week ahead is jampacked with coincident and leading economic indicators. The most up-to-the-minute ones will be May 12 mortgage…
paid Consumer • 2 min read Foul Moods The S&P 500 fell 1.6% today mostly because First Republic's earnings report reminded investors that…