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 26, 2019
“The federal government will rack up $12.2 trillion in deficits through 2029, according to a new projection from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), an $809 billion increase from its last projection in May…” https://thehill.com/policy/finance/458232-deficits-to-exceed-12-trillion-through-2029-cbo
August 26, 2019
” Apple Inc. AAPL, +1.60% has committed to spending more than $6 billion on original content for its upcoming streaming-video service, which it expects to launch within two months, the Financial Times reported Monday. … Bloomberg News report Monday said Apple is weighing a price of $9.99… Continue Reading…
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
August 23, 2019
“Germany, Europe’s industrial powerhouse and biggest economy, with companies like Volkswagen, Siemens and BASF, may be entering a recession, according to a gloomy report from the country’s central bank Monday — a development that could have repercussions for the rest… Continue Reading…
August 22, 2019
“Wall Street’s most widely watched gauge of the yield curve’s slope, the spread between the 2-year Treasury note yield and the 10-year inverted Wednesday morning, flashing the clearest signal to date that the U.S. is set to face an economic… Continue Reading…
August 20, 2019
” U.S. mortgage debt reached a record in the second quarter, exceeding its 2008 peak as the financial crisis unfolded…” https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-mortgage-debt-hits-record-eclipsing-2008-peak-11565708431 Debt in general is bad (unless it’s leveraged correctly) but the main problem of the 2008 housing crash was… Continue Reading…
August 20, 2019
“Stocks plunged Wednesday in the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s worst performance of 2019 after the bond market flashed a troubling signal about the U.S. economy. The Dow dropped 800.49 points or 3.05% to 2,5479.42, its worst percentage drop of the year and… Continue Reading…
August 19, 2019
“The gap grew to $866.8 billion in the first 10 months of the fiscal year, up 27% from the same period a year earlier, the Treasury Department said in its monthly budget report on Monday. That’s wider than last fiscal… Continue Reading…
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