With little on the data-front but second-tier economic releases, much of this week’s attention focused on Fed speakers and minutes from the April 30-May 1…
This week’s economic calendar offered plenty of potential for market volatility, however, market yields remained fairly stable with headline numbers staying in-line with analyst expectations.…
This week has been fairly quiet on the data front, enough to bring comments from this week’s round Fed speakers even more into the spotlight.…
Happy Jobs Friday, everyone! It has been an exciting week here in Oklahoma City as our hometown Thunder swept the New Orleans Pelicans to win…
This morning’s hotly anticipated inflation report seems to have markets focused on the silver lining. Although March’s Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) reading was strong, it…
Bond yields have been back-and-forth this week as markets work to digest an inflationary Retail Sales number with a potentially escalating situation between Israel and…
If the Fed’s job of engineering a “soft landing” for the U.S. economy wasn’t difficult enough, it just got a little trickier this week, potentially…
Happy Jobs Friday everyone! Investors were uneasy this week after recent economic data and comments from Minneapolis Federal Reserve President, Neel Kashkari, suggested that interest…
Happy Thursday Everyone! This week’s edition of Baker Market Update comes to you a day earlier than normal, due to our offices and the markets…
All eyes were on the FOMC meeting this week that took place March 19-20. Following the two-day policy meeting, the central bank’s rate-setting Federal Open…
Markets appear to be stabilizing this morning after a week of volatility. Yesterday’s hotter than expected Producer Price Index (PPI) print was read as weakening…
A full week of jobs data and congressional testimony from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell gave markets much to digest this week. Powell delivered the Federal…
Happy Friday, everyone! It is March 1st already and the rule of thumb is that the jobs report comes out the “First Friday of the…
This was a fairly quiet week in the bond market with very little economic data to move markets. The only noteworthy data points for the…
The upcoming three-day weekend could not come soon enough after a whipsaw week for the markets. The stock market was yanked back from record highs…
After last week’s volatility with the FOMC meeting and Powell’s subsequent comments advocating caution on the path of rate cuts as well as a blowout…
The big news this Friday morning is whether the groundhog (aka Punxsutawney Phil) saw his shadow or not. After years of seeing his shadow, he…
Following last week’s trading volatility, the markets were relatively calm this week. As of the time of this writing, yields across the Treasury curve were…
What a difference a week makes. Last week the 2yr yield plunged 24bp as markets priced in one additional rate cut this year bringing total…
Bond markets seemed to be in a bit of a holding pattern to start the week awaiting Thursday’s release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI).…