Yet another attempt at rising interest rates has spectacularly fizzled out. Well, once again the critter popped its head above the surface before promptly returning…
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Is Flattening Yield Curve Signaling Recession?
The yield curve just dropped to 8-year lows; but it isn’t necessarily flagging a recession, yet. With the carnage in the equity and commodity markets,…
10-Year Yield Running Into Key Resistance
Last Friday, we posted a piece on the “breakout” in the 2-Year Treasury Yield. In light of the much stronger than expected jobs numbers, rates…
Another Rising Rates Set-Up?
2-Year Treasury Yields rose to a 5 ½-year high today…but we’ve seen these “break-outs” many times the past few years. In light of the much stronger…
Corporate Junk-It
In the midst of the recent correction in stocks, investors also saw fit to shun corporate bonds – a combination normally associated with more extensive…
Another Rising Rates Tale Knocked Down
2-Year Yields see historic drop as Tuesday’s “breakout” once again proved to be a set-up. “Then again, don’t be surprised if the nice-looking chart set-up is…
Is Market Setting Stage For Rate Hike?…Or Just Setting Us Up?
Was today’s breakout in 2-Year Yields for real?…or another fakeout? Of all the interesting story lines stemming from today’s market action, perhaps the most noteworthy…
Will Spike In Rates Hurt Stocks?
The current consternation among global equity markets is centered around the recent considerable rise in bond yields globally. There seem to be equal numbers of…
Will Equities Follow Drop In Corporate Bonds?
One of the Wall Street platitudes often repeated is that the bond space is the “smart” market, particularly when in conflict with equities. That is, when…
Rates ARE In Fact Rising For the better part of the last few years (decades?), if there was one thing that market strategists were sure…