Rubrics Morning Comment 07.02.23
7th February 2023
• Bonds Tumble as Central Bankers Hammer Home Hawkish Message; • Fed’s Bostic Says Higher Peak Rate on Table After Jobs Blowout; • Bond Traders Quickly Come Around to Fed’s View on Peak for Rates; • JPMorgan’s Kolanovic Calls Latest Stock Rally a Bear-Market Trap more
Rubrics Morning Comment 03.02.23
3rd February 2023
• Global Bonds Roar Back as Central Bank Warnings Go Unheeded; • Huge $80 Million Option Bet Targets Hard Fed Pivot to Easing; • Apple, Alphabet and Amazon Hurt as Economic Slump Crimps Demand; • Oil Suffers 5% Weekly Loss as China Optimism Dims, Holdings Rise more
Rubrics Morning Comment 02.02.23
2nd February 2023
• Fed Traders See Pivot to Half-Point Cut in Second Half of 2023; • Fed Slows Rate Hikes Even as Powell Says There's More Work to Do; • Oil Gains Ground as Traders Size Up Weaker Dollar, China Outlook; • Powell Warns Against View Fed Can Shield Economy From a Default more
Rubrics Morning Comment 01.02.23
1st February 2023
• Fed to Slow Rate Hikes, Signal Work Not Over: Decision-Day Guide; • Bearish Momentum Sweeps Through US Rates Market Just Before Fed; • US Treasury Boosts Quarterly Borrowing Estimate to $932 Billion; • Housing Slump Deepens From US to China in Risk to Global Growth more
Rubrics Morning Comment 31.01.23
31st January 2023
• Top-Performing Bond Fund Bets Markets Are Wrong on Rates, Again; • Fed Funds Borrowing Leaps to New High as Banks Scramble for Cash; • IMF Raises World Economic Outlook for the First Time in a Year; • Central Banks Told to Keep Rate Hiking Until Inflation All-Clear more
Rubrics Morning Comment 30.01.23
30th January 2023
• The Bond-Market Comeback of 2023 Is Heading to First Big Test; • Powell's Narrow Path Would Avoid Routes Taken by Burns, Volcker; • Pension Funds in Historic Surplus Eye $1 Trillion of Bond-Buying; • US PCE Inflation Cools Further, Paving Way for Smaller Fed Hike more
Rubrics Morning Comment 27.01.23
27th January 2023
• Republicans Toy With Extending Debt Limit to End of September; • US Economy Cools Like the Fed Wants, Still Risks a Stall in 2023; • Oil Climbs as Global Traders Grow Bullish on Short-Term Outlook; • Global Central Banks Preaching on Pay Are Enforcing Squeeze Too more
Rubrics Morning Comment 26.01.23
26th January 2023
• Key US Inflation Gauge Seen Slowing But Leaving Fed Wanting More; • Debt-Limit Showdown Splits Credit Raters on US Downgrade Trigger; • Oil Ekes Out Gain With Technical Gauges Flashing Strength Ahead; • Fed’s Brainard Is a Top Pick to Head Biden Economic Council more
Rubrics Morning Comment 25.01.23
25th January 2023
• Bond Traders Hedge Prospect That This May Be Fed's Last Hike; • Hedge Funds Eye Treasury Steepeners With Last Fed Move in Sight; • Shipping-Cost Drop From Pandemic High Points to Easing Inflation; • Jeremy Grantham Warns of a 17% Plunge in the S&P 500 This Year more
Rubrics Morning Comment 24.01.23
24th January 2023
• State Street CEO Says Treasuries at Risk in US Downgrade on Debt; • Debt-Cap Maneuvers Have Wrightson Eyeing T-Bill Cuts Next Month; • Oil Steadies as Traders Look to China to Deliver Demand Boost; • US Confronts China Over Companies’ Ties to Russian War Effort more
