September 10, 2019
“Money managers at BNY Mellon and Pacific Investment Management Co. have snapped up Japanese bonds. Both companies have made the country the second-largest geographic allocation in some of their biggest international fixed-income funds. Ordinarily that wouldn’t seem remarkable, but right now many of Japan’s… Continue Reading…
September 5, 2019
““We were looking for a correction in August, but we believe the market will rally into the end of the year,” Matejka said in an interview. “The key call is that the U.S. is not headed for a recession. The… Continue Reading…
September 3, 2019
“The dollar hit a two-year high Tuesday as slowing global growth and more aggressive monetary easing overseas sent investors into the reserve currency. The U.S. Dollar index rose to a high of 99.37, its highest level since May 2017, when… Continue Reading…
August 27, 2019
“Germany sold 30-year debt at a negative yield for the first time, as investors desperate for safe assets bet that further falls in yields will boost the value of the bonds in the future…” https://www.wsj.com/articles/germany-for-first-time-sells-30-year-bonds-offering-negative-yields-11566385847
August 23, 2019
“President Trump on Monday called for the Federal Reserve to sharply cut interest rates and again criticized the central bank’s chairman for a “horrendous lack of vision,” while reiterating his belief that the U.S. economy is strong.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-calls-for-a-big-fed-rate-cut-again-criticizes-central-bank-chairman-11566230832
July 31, 2019
“The Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark rate by a quarter point Wednesday as an insurance policy not against what’s wrong with the economy now, but what could go wrong in the future. It was the first rate cut by the… Continue Reading…
July 24, 2019
“The Fed, whose policymakers meet next week to set interest rates, lacks a pressing domestic case to clip borrowing costs: The jobless rate was close to a five-decade low at 3.7% in June, consumer spending is buoyant and the overall expansion just became… Continue Reading…
July 22, 2019
“…The Federal Reserve is planning to cut rates at its policy meeting at the end of the month even though the United States economy, by most available evidence, is doing perfectly fine. It appears, based on a close reading of… Continue Reading…
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