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Inflation Watch – The Easy Months of Disinflation Continue
June 13, 2023
Year-over-year CPI declined in May, as anticipated. June's CPI release will be the last window of opportunity for inflation to fall by a large degree. The question is how far it will fall before year-ago numbers start to make further declines more difficult. Running through several scenarios offers some perspective on inflation’s future growth rate.
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Quick Comments/What We’re Reading
June 13, 2023
Today's topics include Timiraos sets the table for a Fed skip, stop applying pre-covid mindset to current market, high yield defaults on the rise, the housing market, the rental market, office occupancy rates, and checking in on the world's richest
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June 13, 2023
Conference Calls
Dissecting a Busy Week: Treasury Issuance Ramps Up, May CPI & the FOMC Meeting
June 12, 2023
A replay of our June 15, 2023 conference call.
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The Week Liquidity Gets Tested
June 12, 2023
In the next 48 hours, the Treasury will issue $290 billion of securities. This will tell us much about liquidity and the market impact of refilling the Treasury's General Account (TGA).
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Quick Comments/What We’re Reading
June 12, 2023
Today's topics include previewing this week's FOMC meeting, rethinking the link between wages & inflation, cracks in the U.S. economy, Barron's cover story makes the bull case, stocks & bonds telling conflicting stories, real estate loans still a risk to banks, profit margins remain high, the housing market's supply shortage, and more problems at U.S. ports?
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June 12, 2023
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Quick Comments/What We’re Reading
June 9, 2023
Today's topics include Treasury offers guidance on the TGA's rebuild, economists expect a hawkish pause, the Bank Term Funding Program continues to grow, traders getting overly optimistic on stocks?, tech stock outflows, stocks & bonds not on same page, the odds of recession, and crypto funding
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June 9, 2023
Charts of the Week
Profiling the Mutual Fund & ETF Universe
June 9, 2023
52% of households owning mutual funds make more than $100k per year.
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The Divide Between Active and Passive Fund Fees
June 9, 2023
Active equity funds continue to charge 10x the fees of passive equity funds.