Tag: interest rates

With the stock market well off the February lows, recent economic data showing signs of life, and US treasury yields climbing, it was conceivable that...

Since the Fed intimated that it would begin tapering QE in May 2013, U.S. financial markets have experienced several “taper tantrums”. And since QE-balance...

Earning season kicked off this Monday with Alcoa Inc. (AA). AA beat earnings forecasts, but revenue came in short. This resulted in Alcoa's stock...

In the last ten years we’ve seen some pretty important financial events that rocked markets around the world. First was the bursting of the...

Neil Irwin had a really good write-up at The Upshot this week about the history of interest rates. He made the case that low...

After the first rate hike in 9 years, the Federal Reserve and the financial markets are locking horns. The Fed finally followed through on their first...

There is no better reality show for market junkies than the monthly obsession over the ‘critically important jobs number’ or the ‘most significant Federal...

The Federal Reserve is set on raising interest rates next week. The data dependent Fed has reduced their dependency to seemingly only two data...

The two-day Federal Reserve meeting, the year’s last and a highly anticipated one, ends Wednesday. And a rate hike is widely expected. The fed...

November was a quiet, albeit thematic month in the global markets as Mario Draghi continued to move the Eurozone towards more easing, and in the...