(Meanwhile, Bond Yields Are Going Up.) The evidence is starting to pile up that yields may be going even higher.The Fed is letting assets roll off the balance sheet.Meanwhile, the ECB is tapering and will taper more.
Société Générale strategist Albert Edwards says excessive corporate debt could act as the catalyst for a further decline in relatively risky assets.
A troubling signal for the stock market. Funds that track junk bonds saw $6.8 billion of outflows over the past week, third highest on record, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Something is moving beneath the surface.
Eric Sprott says whether the Fed hikes interest rates in December or not, it will be bullish for gold. Here's why...
(West Declines 3.70%. Housing starts rose 13.7% MoM in October to 1,290K units SAAR (or 1.29 million). However, the largest share of housing starts was in the 5+ unit (multifamily) category.
Senate Republicans want to kill Obamacare's individual mandate to free up almost $340 billion in federal spending.
this plan cuts taxes at first but by 2027 actually raises taxes for anyone making less than $75,000.
Without China's assistance in suppressing North Korea, it may only be a matter of time until the U.S. is forced to act.
South Korea & the United States agreed on Friday to keep working for a peaceful end to the North Korean nuclear crisis, but a U.S. envoy said it was difficult to gauge the reclusive North's intentions as there has been "no signal".
North Korea on Friday ruled out negotiations with Washington as long as joint U.S-South Korea military exercises continue, and said that Pyongyang's atomic weapons program would remain as a deterrent against a U.S. nuclear threat.
One anti-gold argument is "it pays no interest". But if interest rates are negative, then gold wins every single time. Here's more on that and what Williams said...
Harvey Organ says we're inching ever closer to that all-time record high level of open interest in silver. Here's more...
It’s been a dilemma for bullion investors ever since gold was first used as money thousands of years ago. On one hand, every investor instinctively knows that gold is highly valuable and therefore must be stored as safe and secure as possible. While keeping some in the house gives you immediate access, storing it all in a cookie jar or under a mattress or in a safe that thieves could force you to open isn’t the most ideal storage plan, especially when you add in the risks of fire or natural disaster.
But the flattening yield curve is signaling an oncoming recession. Here's the details...
The Fed may have to use negative interest rates, as well as untried tools including so-called price-level targeting or nominal-income targeting.
Really! Just how much further can the relentless flattening of the U.S. yield curve go? All the way to zero, according to T. Rowe Price Group. The asset manager, which oversees about $948 billion, is the latest to weigh in on the trend that’s pushed Treasury curves to the flattest levels in a decade. The Federal Reserve has…
Morgan Stanley recommends to short dollar against euro and EM currencies, expects the greenback to weaken for six years amid stronger global growth
Get ready for an explosion to the upside in the dollar price of gold, Make sure you have your physical gold
Hedge-fund manager David Einhorn said the problems that caused the global financial crisis a decade ago still haven’t been resolved.