The global economy is still slowing but the U.S. appears to be resilient. Or is it? The recession spreads are starting to turn positive after being...
The Fed cut rates as expected. The Fed also intervened in repo markets for four consecutive days because of cash shortages in the short term money...
The stock markets continued to wiggle their way higher towards the top of the broadening channel. Gold and silver have moved into a corrective mode, which...
In the past week, U.S. stock markets almost broke out to new highs and gold tanked all because of the news that the U.S. and China...
September is a notoriously bad month for stock markets, although we’ve had tops in September/October as well. The stock markets had a good week but a...
Market volatility is back as the global economy is flashing warning signs of an impending recession. President Trump tried to save the day by delaying tariffs...
Bond yields fall and the yield curve inverts more. History is littered with trade wars and currency wars. But negative yield bonds? $15 trillion and counting....
The Fed cut a quarter-point, then Powell threw cold water on the party. The next day, Trump imposed more tariffs on China. Volatility has returned as...
Our focus this week is on the weakening economic environment, an interesting look at the spread between the 2-year U.S. Treasury note and Fed Funds, a...
Gold and the precious metals all rose as expectations rise for a Fed rate cut at the July FOMC.