As a result of the recent spike in rates, economists are now lowering their home sales forecasts for this year.
The U.S. bond market reeled further on Tuesday, extending Monday’s declines after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s aggressive rate hike comments drove yields on short-dated Treasuries to one of their biggest daily jumps of the past decade.
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Existing home sales plunged a bigger than expected 7.2% MoM in February – the biggest MoM drop in existing home sales since May 2020…
Mortgages and other interest rates are rising and likely to keep going up with the Federal Reserve ending easy-money policies adopted during the pandemic.
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Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk posted in a Twitter thread on Monday advising followers to own “physical things” when inflation is high. In the tweet, Musk said “As a general principle, for those looking for advice from this thread, it is generally better to own physical things like a home or stock in companies you think make good products, than dollars when inflation is high.
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the sanctions that have been levied against it have sent shockwaves through global energy markets. Inventories in major oil-consuming developed economies, including in the United States, have been falling steadily.
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After two soggy coupon auctions earlier this week, which saw both the 3Y and 10Y sales tail modestly with subpar internals, moments ago the US Treasury sold $20BN in a 30 year paper (technically a 29-year 11 month reopening of CUSIP TD0), in what can only be described as a stellar auction.
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U.S. consumers paid more for a variety of goods and services in February compared to the prior month and year, with prices climbing across the economy amid lingering supply and demand imbalances.
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