Interest Rates Archive

Top Gun FP Client Note: The Debate Over What Happens When QE2 Ends

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Top Gun FP Client Note: The Charlie Sheen Market

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Top Gun FP Client Note: Why Simmering Inflation Is Poised To Knock This Market Down

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Top Gun FP Client Note: Going With The Flow Into Year End

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NY Times: Falling Rates Aid Debtors, Hamper Savers

September 9, 2010  ·  Category: Bonds, Income Investing, Interest Rates
It's the whole point of low rates, to entice borrowing and discourage saving, but it means a massive wealth transfer from savers to borrowers. - Greg McBride, Senior Financial Analyst, Bankrate.com All our clients are struggling with ...
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Which Way Interest Rates?

April 12, 2010  ·  Category: Interest Rates, Macro Economics
A couple of important stories on interest rates this weekend in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. The Wall Street Journal described the different forecasts for the year-end 10 year treaury yield by Morgan ...
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Technical Watch: Dow 11,000, 10 Year Treasury 4%

April 5, 2010  ·  Category: Interest Rates, Market Commentary, Technical Analysis
Source: BeSpoke Investment Group
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Rising Rates - 10 Year Approaching 4%

March 29, 2010  ·  Category: Interest Rates, Macro Economics, Market Commentary
One of the important stories last week was the notable rise in interest rates.  The cause was weak treasury auctions on Wednesday and Thursday when the Treasury sold $42 billion of 5 year notes and ...
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Doug Casey: Go Short Interest Rates

June 24, 2009  ·  Category: Inflation, Interest Rates
People who short interest rates - in other words, people who bet they are going much higher in the coming years - are going to make a fortune.  I think interest rates will go back ...
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WSJ Weighs In On Rising Rates

June 11, 2009  ·  Category: Interest Rates, Macro Economics, Market Commentary
Mortgage rates at these levels will hobble the [housing] recovery, and it was just the beginning of the recovery. - Kenneth Rosen (subscription required), Chairman, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, University of California, Berkeley. The ...
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