Posts Tagged ‘U.S. 5/30 curve’
April 10, 2016
I’ve been staring at this image and keep thinking about the three living Fed Chairmen that sat on the stage April 7 and the fourth that was teleported from Washington, D.C. I was thinking about the replies to weak questions posed by the moderator and better questions from the audience. I thought about the question I would have asked first. I would have asked each Fed Chair what they had thought about the role of GOLD in the post-Bretton Woods global financial system. Ben Bernanke famously opined that he didn’t understand GOLD but seemed very comfortable visualizing a role for BITCOIN. Yellen has never openly stated her concern about the barbarous relic. Back in the 1960s, Alan Greenspan wrote a serious paper for the Ayn Rand society on the important role of GOLD in a global system and more important for the impact of GOLD for a democratic capitalist world.
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Tags:AfD, Alan Greenspan, Angela Merkel, Ben Bernanke, Brexit, CDU, ECB, Germany, Gold, Janet Yellen, Mario Draghi, Paul Volcker, QE, TLTRO, U.S. 5/30 curve
Posted in ECB, Fed | 9 Comments »
August 17, 2015
One of my favorite songs by Simon and Garfunkel is “A Simple Desultory Philippic” in which the duo takes the time to mock and criticize the world of culture and politics that surround them. Desultory means lacking a style or plan, while Philippic connotes a word for a tirade or rant. Will my readers entertain my desire to craft my own simple desultory philippic?
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Tags:200-day moving average, Abe, CAC, China, DAX, devaluation, Fed, FOMC, Footsie, IMF, Japan, Nikkei, QE, SPS, U.S. 2/10 curve, U.S. 5/30 curve, Yen, Yuan
Posted in China, Currency, Debt Market, Equity, Fed, Japan | 10 Comments »
December 17, 2013
Tread lightly into the throes of Fedspeak for first comes the FOMC statement a 1 p.m. CST followed by the last press conference of Chairman Bernanke’s term at 1:30 p.m. The markets are going to be volatile as confusion reigns in all asset classes. Today, the Treasury market was trying to reassert a steepening bias into the 5/30 yield curve as the FIVES were strong and the 30-YEAR YIELDS were rising. However, by day’s end the 5/30 retraced and closed unchanged on the day (if you trade the curve in futures terms the ratio is almost three FIVES to one THIRTY-year bond). Consensus has changed and the bias is for a tapering the question is: HOW LARGE? I have assumed a $20 billion tapering and I will stick with that “bold” conjecture. It is important to listen for any language of forward guidance on the unemployment threshold for if the Fed were to hint at lowering the 6.5% threshold, markets will reverse course, especially the S&Ps and DOW, which have spent the last few days in correction mode.
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Tags:Ben Bernanke, BOJ, Dow, Fed, FOMC, Glenn Stevens, Gold, Goldman Sachs, Kuroda, Lloyd Blankfein, QQE, regulation, S&P, U.S. 5/30 curve, yield curves
Posted in BoJ, Debt Market, Fed, Gold, RBA | 13 Comments »