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Bloomberg – The Study Europe’s Rate-Setters Should Read A new paper shows why the longer rates stay low, the fewer benefits they bring. A key argument for hurrying up with a monetary tightening is that negative rates have hurt bank...
Net Positions – Why Are Six Stocks Leading This Rally? In this Net Positions, Jim Bianco takes a look at the six stocks leading the rally. Comment There is not a single clean metric to show if the stock market’s returns are concentrated in...
Bloomberg Graphics – OPEC Reality: Saudis Delivered, Non-OPEC Didn’t. Just under a week from now, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will meet in Vienna to decide whether to extend the first oil production curbs in...
Bloomberg – Investors Just Pulled the Most Cash From Small Caps in a Decade Pain in smaller stocks has some readying for selloff Investors pulled $3.5 billion from the biggest exchange-traded fund that tracks the Russell 2000 Index last...
Comment As the chart above shows, the market has priced in a June rate hike as a virtual certainty. There is no need for the qualifying language used below. At this point, the market would only be shocked if the Fed failed to hike. The...
The Wall Street Journal – Greg Ip: Nice 3% Target, Mr. Trump. How Will You Get There? Yet there are good reasons independent economists think the U.S. can’t return to its historic growth of 3%. The U.S. working-age population grew 1.2% a...
MarketWatch.com – Caroline Baum: What exactly is Trumponomics? Already we are hearing references to “Trumponomics.” But what exactly are the priorities or objectives of a president who seems to make things up as he goes along, who says one...
CNBC – Bond market warning? A closely watched economic indicator just hit a postelection low The short end of the yield curve is “rising on expectations of tighter monetary policy, while the low end is more correlated to growth...
Blackrock Blog – Jeffrey Rosenberg: What the bond markets tell us about reflation We see stable global growth and inflation helping the Federal Reserve make good on its promise to Normalize normalization. Global developed bond yields...
The New York Post – John Crudele: How companies lie about earnings to meet Wall Street expectations Everyone knows by now that companies can — and do — manipulate their per-share earnings to meet Wall Street expectations. But I’ve always...
The Wall Street Journal – ‘Buy the Dip’ Is Becoming a Pavlovian Reflex Mr. Chan notes that five standard-deviation stock declines are happening more often. There have been three such declines in U.S. stock market in less than a...
The Upshot (NYT Blog) – Angry Over Zillow’s Home Prices? A Prize Is Offered for Improving Them It’s one of the oldest tricks in an internet company’s playbook. Concoct a tool that gives the public new statistics on something — the...