Tag: federal reserve
Market Volatility Likely To Hinder Fed Rate Hike
As the Greek drama unfolded last week, we also witnessed a meltdown in the China stock market, an unprecedented 4 hour halt in trading...
Why The Federal Reserve Must Keep Hopes Alive
The third revision of the first quarter of 2015’s Gross Domestic Product was released today and it showed that the economy did slightly better...
Federal Reserve Stays The Course But Economic Data Telling
Over the past several weeks, I have laid out details for why I feel interest rates will continue to trend lower. In a nutshell, I...
Thoughts On The FOMC Statement And Key Market Levels
Well, another Fed day came and went in the markets. There's no need to be consumed by their every word, but there are some quality...
Are Bonds Bottoming? Here Are 3 Things To Watch For
For weeks now, it looks like I have been wrong on my long bonds positions: the 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund (TLT) and the...
Bonds Selloff: Why Investors Shouldn’t Sell Into The Panic
Last week was a difficult week for those of us that own bonds. In particular, ETFs like the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund...
Federal Reserve Meeting: Why The Fed Won’t Raise Rates Until 2016
The S&P 500 has once again powered to all-time highs. Yesterday it reached an intraday high of 2125 before pulling back. There is an FOMC...
Volatility Hits Financial Markets As Stocks “Chop”
The market had a rough day yesterday, with recent leadership sectors getting hit hard. The small caps (Russell 2000) was down 2.34%, while the...
Non-Correlated Market Musings: About the Benjamins (Vol. 3)
Monetary Existentialism
People who study the theory of money have always struggled with the epistemology. Economist Arnold Kling quotes this from historian Yuval Harari's Sapiens:...
Weighing The Global Economic Slowdown Into The Fed Meeting
Over the past several weeks I have spent a lot of time highlighting the global economic slowdown and how it will continue to drag on the...
