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Treasury Yields Reach 5-Month High, Lift Mortgage Rates; Expert Warns 'Federal Debt Blob Is Out Of Control'

benzinga.com As Treasury yields continue their upward trajectory, reaching levels not seen since November 2023, the impact on the U.S. mortgage market and potentially for the broader…

The UAE is using a wealth fund to gain diplomatic sway

economist.com Sovereign wealth funds seldom worry about foreign policy. Those that invest abroad typically do so in order to ensure stable returns or diversify holdings, meaning they tend…

How Real-World Assets Will Survive (and Evolve) in the Bull Market

thedefiant.io Projects that prioritize structure, compliance, and decentralization will be best positioned to attract institutional capital and drive the long-term growth of the sector.…

Market Is Splendidly Indifferent To Rising Inflation Risks

zerohedge.com Market Is Splendidly Indifferent To Rising Inflation Risks Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, There continues to be scant evidence of inflation hedging in…

US Yields Climb Before a Record $70 Billion Sale: Markets Wrap

finance.yahoo.com The world’s biggest bond market came under pressure, with Wall Street gearing up for another jumbo-sized sale of Treasuries that will help determine whether a turning point…

Stocks Head Lower as Bond Yields Rise

barrons.com Stocks were under pressure Wednesday as the market got hit by rising Treasury yields. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 were trading lower, down 0.4% and…

Musk Lifts Sentiment In Entire Stock Market By Saying A Regular Car Is Like "Riding A Horse"

benzinga.com To gain an edge, this is what you need to know today. Please click here for an enlarged chart of Tesla Inc TSLA. • This article is about the big picture, not an individual…

Fails to Attract Safe-Haven Flows: Kaiko

cryptopotato.com While bitcoin’s performance over the last couple of years has been nothing short of spectacular, the latest analysis suggests that the world’s largest cryptocurrency has…

Wall Street titans are betting big on insurers. What could go wrong?

economist.com Blackstone listed on the New York Stock Exchange during the summer of 2007. Doing so just before the global financial crisis was hardly auspicious, and come early 2009 the…

World's Biggest M&A Deal Is Terrible For Bonds

zerohedge.com World's Biggest M&A Deal Is Terrible For Bonds Four years ago, we wrote an article, mocking the unspeakable reality that it appeared "The Fed and The Treasury had now…

The Bond Market Is Sounding Its Most Severe Alarm in Decades, and It Could Mean Trouble for the Stock Market

finance.yahoo.com The U.S. economy expanded 2.5% last year, an acceleration from 1.9% in 2022 and above the 10-year average of 2.3%. That economic momentum sent the benchmark S&P 500…

Here Comes The Cavalry?

zerohedge.com Here Comes The Cavalry? By Benjamin Picton of Rabobank Here Comes The Cavalry? The risk of imminent hot war between Israel and Iran seems to have dissipated for the time…

Bond Traders Look to Record Auction for Sign 5% Yield Is Peak

finance.yahoo.com With Treasuries on track for their worst month this year, a hefty slate of auctions looms as a major test of whether yields have peaked after reaching the highest levels of…

Rates Are Higher, Just Like No One Expected

carsongroup.com The quote above is one that I’ve used more in my career than probably any other quote. Markets are all about what is priced in and what isn’t, suggesting that the big…

Gold and bitcoin demand is surging as U.S. debt rises

fastcompany.com Concern about the rapidly rising U.S. government debt is partly behind recent surges in gold prices and bitcoin, even as the Treasury market so far remains relatively…

Why Haven’t We Whipped inflation Yet?

aier.org Despite extraordinary monetary tightening by the Federal Reserve, inflation remains elevated above its 2 percent target. Even more worrying, inflation accelerated during the…

Worsening US debt outlook seen more in gold and bitcoin than in bonds

finance.yahoo.com Concern about the rapidly rising U.S. government debt is partly behind recent surges in gold prices and bitcoin, even as the Treasury market so far remains relatively…

Treasury Yields Head To 'Danger Zone': Analyst Forecasts Potential Spike To 5%, Disorderly Sell-Off For Markets

benzinga.com Yields on the 10-year Treasury note have ascended to a striking 4.70% this month, the highest mark since early November 2023 amid a toxic mix of higher inflation, a…

Stocks Decline on Mideast Tensions, Havens Rally: Markets Wrap

finance.yahoo.com European and US equity index futures declined as global markets were rocked by fresh conflict in the Middle East that sent stocks lower while oil and haven assets including…

Where To Find Princely 5% Yields For Your Cash And Take No Risk

investors.com If you thought cash was headed for the trash heap this year, the Federal Reserve threw you a curveball with interest rates. Cash is still king as inflation ails markets like…

Huge Bond Wagers Make Some Hedge Funds Too-Big-To-Fail, IMF Warns

zerohedge.com Huge Bond Wagers Make Some Hedge Funds Too-Big-To-Fail, IMF Warns Who could have seen this coming? btw this is where the next really big crash will start…

Why Simpler Has Been Better for Portfolio Diversification

morningstar.com In our recently published 2024 Diversification Landscape report, Christine Benz, Karen Zaya, and I took a deep dive into how different asset classes performed in the past…

Treasuries Stumble on Mere Mention of Fed Rate Hike by Williams

finance.yahoo.com The US bond market’s recovery was cut short by a Federal Reserve official’s mere mention of the possibility of an interest-rate increase. • None Red Lobster Considers…

Workers Who Had Their Middle-Class Status Offshored By 40-Years Of Neoliberalism Are Finally Vindicated

zerohedge.com Workers Who Had Their Middle-Class Status Offshored By 40-Years Of Neoliberalism Are Finally Vindicated By Benjamin Picton of Rabobank An Eye For An Eye Treasury yields fell…

Vanguard Warns 10-Year Treasury Yields Risk Jump Back to 5%

finance.yahoo.com The Treasury market is nearing levels that risk triggering a large selloff, pushing yields on 10-year bonds back to 5%, according to Vanguard. • None Red Lobster Considers…

Stocks Climb With Earnings in Focus as Dollar Dips: Markets Wrap

finance.yahoo.com Stocks advanced and Treasuries edged higher as global markets steadied after the turbulence earlier in the week. Asian currencies rallied as authorities pushed back against…

What Went Wrong With US Inflation

finance.yahoo.com This was supposed to be the year that US inflation rode the last mile down to 2%, letting the Federal Reserve steadily reduce interest rates from a two-decade high. Now…

America’s debt problem is storing up trouble for the rest of the world

aol.com The high and rising level of US government debt risks driving up borrowing costs around the world and undermining global financial stability, the International Monetary Fund…

Predicting a Bear Market: 7 Signs and Why it's Tough to Do

marketbeat.com Are you trying to predict the next bear market? If so, you might want to consider the magnitude of the task first. Many millions have been lost predicting bear markets that…

Nikkei Dips on Profit Taking, Hang Seng Flat Despite Rules Boost

asiafinancial.com Asia’s major stock indexes saw a mixed day of trading on Wednesday with US interest rates, conflict in the Middle East, regulatory policy moves and profit-booking all having…

We're tapping our large cash pile to buy more of this newer portfolio stock

cnbc.com We are buying 100 shares of Best Buy at roughly $75.28. Following the trade, Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust will own 900 shares of BBY, increasing its weighting to roughly…

In defence of a financial instrument that fails to do its job

economist.com Although buying inflation-protected bonds to protect against inflation does not seem unreasonable, it would have been a spectacularly unprofitable move during the latest…

Futures Rebound On Strong Earnings Even As Global Market Mood Remains Dismal

zerohedge.com Futures Rebound On Strong Earnings Even As Global Market Mood Remains Dismal S&P futures traded modestly in the green, erasing earlier losses and signaling a recovery after…

Max Boonen's PV01 Tokenizes $5M Treasury Bill, Plans to Look at Corporate Bonds

coindesk.com Tokenization company PV01, helmed by founders of crypto market maker B2C2, has completed its first tokenized bond sale under English law, the team said Tuesday, marking a…

These Inflation Trades Have Most Catching Up To Do

zerohedge.com These Inflation Trades Have Most Catching Up To Do Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Markets are unprepared for price growth that is becoming entrenched.…

Weekly Market Pulse: Are Higher Interest Rates Good For The Economy?

alhambrapartners.com Interest rates surged last week on the back of a hotter-than-expected inflation report that wasn’t actually that bad (see below). Not that my – or your – opinion about these…

Dow Jones Futures: Another Ugly Market Reversal; Nvidia Skids, Tesla Tumbles On 'Dark Day'

investors.com Dow Jones futures tilted lower after hours, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. Dow giants UnitedHealth Group (UNH) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) report early…

Fed's reverse repo facility plummets to lowest level in nearly three years

finance.yahoo.com A key Federal Reserve facility that takes in cash from money market funds and others saw inflows drop sharply on Monday. The U.S. central bank's reverse repo facility took…

Treasury Yields Jump to New 2024 Highs After Hot US Retail Sales

finance.yahoo.com Most US Treasury yields climbed to new year-to-date highs, with the two-year note’s approaching 5%, after strong retail sales data further eroded investor confidence that…

TLT: Why Hold Long Bond ETFs in 2024?

finance.yahoo.com After a historic bear market for bonds ended in October of 2023, long-term bond ETFs led the charge in price appreciation in the fourth quarter. Investors expecting price…

US Treasuries Fall as Traders Focus Again on Inflation Risks

finance.yahoo.com The bid for Treasuries that swept through markets ahead of the weekend is unwinding amid hopes the conflict between Iran and Israel will now calm, with attention returning…

Futures, Bitcoin Jump, Oil Drops As Markets Move Beyond This Weekend's Scripted Military Exchange Between Iran And Israel

zerohedge.com Futures, Bitcoin Jump, Oil Drops As Markets Move Beyond This Weekend's Scripted Military Exchange Between Iran And Israel Following the emotional rollercoaster of this…

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