For the first time since the emergence of the Omicron variant, money markets bet on
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China Cuts Rates As Retail Sales Crumble, Economy Stumbles
The Chinese economic expansion slowed in the fourth quarter, but not nearly as much as
Fed Speculation In Overdrive Leaves Markets In Limbo
The US data calendar is sparse in what’ll be a holiday-shortened week dominated by Fed
Deep Thoughts, By Bill Ackman
Bill Ackman did some thinking over the weekend, and like all great thinkers before him,
Walmart Plots ‘Super Intense’ Crypto, Metaverse Push, Filing Suggests
Walmart has designs on crypto. Literally. Filings with the US Patent and Trademark Office dated
Bears And Sea Monsters
I’ve adopted a demonstrably bearish cadence over the past several days. But not on purpose.
Meanwhile, In Tech: ‘Hey, I Bought Stuff That’s Going Down’
“Interest rates are a central focus of equity investors,” Goldman’s David Kostin said, in a
Something Wicked This Way Comes
It’s becoming more difficult to shake the feeling that something bad is about to happen
JPMorgan Results Underwhelm Amid Epic Bank Rally
US banks came into earnings season on a sugar high, catalyzed by higher yields and
Albert Edwards: ‘There’s Too Much Linear Thinking Out There!’
It won’t surprise you to learn that SocGen’s Albert Edwards isn’t particularly optimistic about the
Is The Fed Trade Exhausted?
If the bearish US rates trade was already tired, December’s cooler-than-anticipated read on PPI could
‘Cool’ Is An Extremely Relative Term
US producer prices rose half as much as expected in December, data out Thursday showed.
Topics Du Jour
Mainland shares in China dropped to a five-month low and dollar weakness remained topical as
If The World’s On Fire, That’s Really Nothing New
Afternoon gains on US equity benchmarks belied a distressing hodgepodge of headlines strewn across the
A Decade And $5 Trillion Later
The Fed will normalize policy “as we move through 2022,” Jerome Powell told US lawmakers
Regular People Don’t Care
A panel of highly-qualified technocrats will use its “tools to prevent higher inflation from becoming
Behind The Nasdaq’s Wild Monday Reversal
On Monday afternoon, after another brutal selloff in US tech shares briefly pushed the Nasdaq
Kolanovic: Buy The Dip. Markets Can Handle Higher Yields
“Markets can handle Omicron and higher yields,” JPMorgan strategists led by Marko Kolanovic wrote Monday,
‘Minsky Moments Almost Certainly Await’
It’s now mostly impossible to avoid the 2018 comparisons when it comes to Fed policy.
Dot-Com Echoes As Rich Stocks Meet Fed Hawks
Constructive views remained constructive Monday and those known for occasionally adopting a cautious cadence did
Goldman Says Fed QT Starts In July, Sees Peak Omicron
Goldman joined the ranks of those predicting four Fed hikes in 2022, as Wall Street
Boring Old Profits
Lost in the fog of a nascent, Fed-inspired rates tantrum is the imminent onset of
Rates Tantrum Pulls ‘Year-End’ Forward By 51 Weeks
One amusing — if somewhat trite — takeaway from last week’s fireworks in the bond
Bond Blowup Meets Inflation Report In Early 2022 Reckoning
All eyes will be on US rates in the new week, as 2022’s burgeoning bond
Fed’s ‘Remarkable Turn’ Puts Big Red Circle Around March
“We’re at a point in time where we need to adjust policy,” Mary Daly said
Peak Apple? And FAAMG As World’s 3rd Largest Country
“I never thought I’d see a $3 trillion market cap,” one incredulous PM said this
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