The weather has not been the only thing to heat up this week. After last week’s inflation data showed inflation pressures easing, markets are now…
On the heels of last week’s strong-jobs-numbers-induced selloff, rates markets were looking for some evidence of disinflation this week to counter the strength of the…
The mid-week holiday brought a short trading week, but that didn’t prevent market volatility from making an appearance. The yield on the 10yr Treasury is…
The last week of June had all the makings for extreme volatility but managed to stay relatively calm to end the quarter, despite an attempted…
Summertime officially arrived this week with the solstice, and the Fed Chairman celebrated by delivering his semi-annual Humphry Hawkins testimony on consecutive days to both…
Following 10 consecutive rate hikes totaling 500bp since March 2022, the Federal Reserve decided to leave interest rates unchanged at the June FOMC meeting. Markets…
Happy Friday everyone! The economic calendar was rather light this week and professional golf has gotten more headlines this week than the economy. As my…
Summer is here and things are warming up. That’s certainly true of the labor market, or at least the payrolls growth component of the May…
Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer and a chance to honor the contribution of fallen service members. And if rumors are true…
This week, various Federal Reserve Presidents were scattered across the country speaking at various events. Minneapolis Fed President, Neel Kashkari, said the central bank probably…
There were very few changes with Bond yields this week as markets continue to assess incoming data and the ongoing regional banking crisis to determine…
May started out with a bang with the first week of the month giving us a bank failure, a debt ceiling crisis, a Fed rate…
Our friends at The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported this week that the US economy slowed sharply in the first quarter of the year. After…
This week proved to be a calm week in the bond market as yields across the curve remained relatively flat. The 10yr sits at 3.56%…
If March is the month of madness and April the month of fools, many of us are eager to usher in a new season of…
Less than six months ago the US 10yr Treasury Note yield hit an intraday high of 4.33%. Yesterday it ended the session more than 100bps…
Markets are relatively calm as we close out the last week of the quarter. And oh, what a quarter it’s been. Following a year that…
Spring has sprung, the days are getting longer, and everything’s starting to green up nicely. So why does the Fed Chairman looks so tired? Well,…
Today is the first anniversary of the Fed’s initial rate hike in its campaign to crush inflation, and it’s Saint Patrick’s Day as well. Perfect…
As Ferris Bueller once wisely said “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”…