The main threat of negative-yielding debt is what it could do to the US economy if a recession were to hit.
DoubleLine's Jeffrey Sherman tells CNBC that August's Treasury bid may have been overdone and said gold could be a good recession play.
Approval of Trump's handling of the economy has started to slip as fears about a recession crept into financial markets and pockets of the general public.
Says the US risks 'zero rates' if trade war escalates
Trump will once again meet with advisors today on the topic of cutting capital gains taxes by indexing them to inflation.
The European Central Bank is about to turn the screws again on financial institutions by diving even deeper into negative interest rates.
Gold allocations of 2%-10% in a typical pension portfolio1 have provided better risk-adjusted returns than those with broad-based commodity allocations
Dave Kranzler is certain the Exchange Stabilization Fund is buying stock index futures. What is this leading up to? Here's what...
The ECB decision is likely to set the tone for upcoming rate-setting decisions by the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan next week.
SD Midweek Update: Also, an immense tug-of-war between the manipulation exposers and deniers show us the "consolidation" is complete...
The inversion of the US bond yield curve may be indicative of rapid innovation crushing prices for years on end
I think you are going to see that the downturn here is pretty bad. It’s not just a little softening in the economy.”
The bubble hasn’t stopped inflating, and recently it entered what sure looks like a terminal blow-off stage. Some highlights:
OPEC on Wednesday cut its forecast for growth in world oil demand in 2020 due to an economic slowdown.
With the European Central Bank meeting on Thursday, and the scale of an expected monetary easing package from eurozone policymakers is uncertain.
The increasing risk of an economic recession is putting pressure on German officials to explore ways to open the coffers a bit more.
The last time major central banks shifted gears together, it was a cooperative move to keep the financial crisis of a decade ago from becoming a full-bore, worldwide depression.
Dimon was expecting higher, not lower rates this year.
Jose Niño was born in Venezuela and his family has experienced the impacts of socialism first hand. But was it "real socialism?"On this episode of It's Your Dime, Jose and host Mike Maharrey talk about it.Jose had the good fortune of leaving Venezuela before it descended into chaos. After reading the tea leaves and realizing that the country was heading down the path of political turmoil, Jose’s parents brought his family to the US in search of better opportunities.
We are coming to the end of Mario Draghi and the “Whatever It Takes” era. Remember, the head of the European Central Bank said he would do whatever it takes to preserve the EURO. This f…