Rubrics Morning Comment 09.01.23
9th January 2023
• Traders Slash Fed Bets After Data; Key Yield Inversion Deepens; • Bond Rally Gives Early Win to Wall Street’s 2023 Yield-Curve Bet; • Fed Officials Call for More Hikes Even as Price Pressures Cool; • Economists Warn of Threats to Growth at Year’s Biggest Meeting more
Rubrics Morning Comment 06.01.23
6th January 2023
• Fed Officials Dig In on Rates as Inflation Stays ‘Way Too High’; • Treasuries Whacked as Too-Hot Inflation Spurs Rate Hike Bets; • US Job Growth to Slow or Even Reverse After Near-Record Year; • Fed's Bullard Says Rates Are Nearing Sufficiently High Level more
Rubrics Morning Comment 05.01.23
5th January 2023
• Fed Affirms Inflation Resolve, Pushes Back Against Rate-Cut Bets; • US Job Openings Top Forecasts, Keeping Pressure on Fed to Hike; • Pioneering Yield-Curve Economist Sees US Able to Dodge Recession; • Amazon to Slash More Than 18,000 Jobs in Escalation of Cuts more
Rubrics Morning Comment 04.01.23
4th January 2023
• Treasuries Chalk Up Strongest New Year Surge Since Greenspan; • US Recession ‘Pretty Likely’ But Not Severe, Bill Dudley Says; • Treasury Strategists Expect Lower Yields, Steeper Curve in 2023; • Fed Minutes to Reveal Source of Inflation Angst Pushing Up Rates more
Rubrics Morning Comment 03.01.23
3rd January 2023
• IMF’s Georgieva Expects Third of World to Suffer Recession; • Asia Factories Remain Under Pressure as Global Demand Slows; • Oil Advances as Traders Track China Signals at Start of the Year; • Fed Reverse Repo Facility Use Jumps to Record $2.55 Trillion more
Rubrics Morning Comment 30.12.22
30th December 2022
• Oil Set for Yearly Gain as Investors Look Ahead to China Rebound; • Yardeni Says Stock Bulls Have ‘Narrow Path’ to Victory in 2023; • Mortgage Rates in the US Rise for First Time in Seven Weeks; • Bankman-Fried Met Biden Aides in Pre-Collapse Crypto Push more
Rubrics Morning Comment 29.12.22
29th December 2022
• Oil Extends Drop in Thin Trading as Fears Over Covid Wave Mount; • US, Italy Are Latest to Require Testing for China Travelers; • Stock Hedge Funds Vaporize Billions With Another Year of Losses; • Credit Cracks Widen With Distressed Debt Ballooning more
Rubrics Morning Comment 28.12.22
28th December 2022
• US Bond Funds See Biggest Weekly Outflow of 2022, Barclays Says; • Global Bonds Slide as China Reopening Fuels Inflation Angst; • Oil Fluctuates After Russia Bans Exports to Users of Price Cap; • Power Costs Surging 6,000% Signal Soaring US Home Heating Bills more
Rubrics Morning Comment 23.12.22
23rd December 2022
• US Claims for Jobless Benefits Were Little Changed Last Week; • Goldman Says US Spending Deal Bigger Than Expected for 2023; • Oil Falls in Light Trading Despite Tightening Crude Supplies; • Dollar-Yen Traders Wait on US Inflation Data for Next Catalyst more
Rubrics Morning Comment 22.12.22
22nd December 2022
• Just 1% of Bond Investors Dodged Mistakes That Sank Rivals; • Morgan Stanley’s Caron Says Markets Are Wrong on Fed Hikes; • US Consumer Confidence Jumps to Highest Level in Eight Months; • Fed’s Group to Take Dovish Tilt With Four New 2023 Voters more