Newsfeed: Dow Suffers Longest Losing Streak In 99 Years, Bonds & Bullion Bid
US Macro Surprise data slumped for the 5th straight week, back into negative territory at its weakest weekly close since Nov 2021…
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Newsfeed: Stagflation Risks Are Again Clouding a Global Market Rebound
Fresh signs that major economies are slowing even as prices shoot higher cast a shadow over a nascent risk rally in global markets, just hours into the start of the new trading week.
Newsfeed: Bond Turmoil Threatens to Erupt Anew With Inflation Haunting Fed
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell beat back the market’s most aggressive predictions for the path of interest rates Wednesday, setting off a dovish surge in stocks and bonds.
Newsfeed: The Fed Owned The Bond Market, Now It’s Breaking It
The Federal Reserve and other central banks took ownership of the bond markets during the pandemic with zero-bound rates. Now they are busy breaking them.
Newsfeed: U.S. Treasury market plagued with illiquidity as government bonds suffer worst week in years
Signs of trouble continue to show up in the world’s largest, most liquid government-securities market as government bonds logged their worst week in years and the U.S. central bank’s interest rate hiking cycle gets under way.
Newsfeed: Bonds Extend Drop After Fed Sparks One of Worst Days in Decade
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.
The BEST performing asset classes of the last 20 years …
Judging by the volume of commentary from a parade of pundits on every major financial news outlet … .. you’d think stocks are the undisputed champ for wealth building. Meanwhile, real assets … things like real estate and gold … are largely ignored as boring relics for the unsophisticated and fearful. Then a pesky thing …
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Is real estate doomed?
There’s a lot of doom, gloom, and uncertainty out there. MANY of the super-smart people we hang out with are preparing for a really ROCKY road ahead. Of course, we’re big fans of being prepared. As we often say … “Better to be prepared and not have a crisis, than to have a crisis and not …
In search of stability in an unstable world …
What a difference a week makes! Last time we commented on the big news about the world’s most famous real estate guy potentially using the tax laws to reduce his federal income taxes to virtually zero. Since then, as you probably know, the news has been dominated by President Trump’s illness, hospitalization, treatment, and return to the White House. …
This is a SHOCK! … said no one
We’re proudly filing this under the category of “We told you so.” …. Stripe workers who relocate get $20,000 bonus and a pay cut – Bloomberg, 9/15/20 “Stripe Inc. plans to make a one-time payment of $20,000 to employees who opt to move out of San Francisco, New York or Seattle, but also cut their base …