Interest Rates Archive
My, My How Quickly Things Change On Wall Street - 10 Year Treasury Closes Below 5%; Ken Fisher Says: Watch Credit Spreads
A month ago the big story was rising interest rates. Everybody was talking about how the economy was holding up while inflation was still a problem and so, far from cutting rates later this year, ...
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Making Sense of the Two Week Spike In Interest Rates
June 14, 2007 · Category: Bonds, Interest Rates
This morning Barry Ritholtz put up a post on saying that bonds are oversold on sentiment and technicals if not valuation.
In that post, he links to an article by Barron's interest rate columnist Randall Forsyth, ...
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One Important Reason For Rising Interest Rates: Rising Rates Around The World
June 11, 2007 · Category: Interest Rates
A couple weeks ago David Gaffen at the WSJ's MarketBeat blog had a post everyone should read on five reasons for rising interest rates: (1) Higher Yields Around the Globe (2) Diminished Expectations for a ...
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With Treasuries Repriced For a Fed On Hold, The Bulls Are Back
"For equities, and for the bond market in general, this may come to be viewed as merely an adjustment - a restoration of the old relationship between Treasuries and the federal funds rate - and ...
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Interest Rates Explode Upward - Biggest One Day Spike Since March 9, 2005
"Sentiment [on treasuries] has probably gotten too bearish given the current set of news."
- Tony Crescenzi (subscription required), Chief Fixed Income Strategist, Miller Tabak
The sell-off the last three days has been entirely about interest rates. ...
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The 5% Diet
June 6, 2007 · Category: Technical Analysis, Sentiment Analysis, Market Commentary, Interest Rates, Federal Reserve
"The whole story is interest rate worries."
- Stephen Carl, head trader Williams Capital (subscription required)
"A lot of people are trying to come to grips with the idea that the Fed is just as likely at ...
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Did Anybody Actually Read Bernanke’s Speech?
June 5, 2007 · Category: Macro Economics, Real Estate, Market Commentary, Interest Rates, Federal Reserve
The big event for today turned out to be a speech given by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to the International Monetary Congress in Cape Town, South Africa via satellite before the market open this morning.
This ...
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Market Holds Record Levels on Positive Economic Reports; Bullish Sentiment Returns; 10 Year Treasury Yields Approach 5%
Lot's of good economic news, or economic news that has been interpreted as good, the last couple of days.
Yesterday (Thu) before the open, The Commerce Department reported that preliminary estimates for 1Q 2007 GDP had ...
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Back to Obsessing About the Fed; Range Trading on the 10 Year Treasury; Market Out Of Gas For Now
You know Wall Street couldn't go more than a few weeks without obsessing about the Fed and if there is going to be a rate cut this year or not. I swear to God......
The immediate ...
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Time Well Spent - A Couple Hours with The Wall Street Journal
February 7, 2007 · Category: Real Estate, Culture and Current Events, Business Culture and Current Events, Interest Rates
A starting point for becoming knowledgeable about business and finance is simply to read The Wall Street Journal everyday. If you just do that, you'll find your knowledge and understanding growing all the time and ...
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