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Treasury Still Selling Inflation-Protection TIPS at Negative Yields

Posted: May 23, 2013 at 1:24 pm

Imagine not just loaning the government money for free, but at negative nominal rates. Another fresh Treasury auction of 10-year inflation-protection TIPS just went off yet again at negative interest ...
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Goldman Sachs Calls For Higher Bond Yields… What It Really Means To Your Money

Posted: May 23, 2013 at 12:40 pm

It has been hard to ignore the rise in bond yields on the longer end of the Treasury curve in recent days. The market keeps looking for clues from Federal ...
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No Inflation, but New York Fed Manufacturing Zone Enters Recession Levels

Posted: May 15, 2013 at 8:55 am

More economic data is out for the markets to chew on. The good news is that inflation appears to be remaining nonexistent. The bad news is that manufacturing in the ...
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Once an Inflation Hawk, Always an Inflation Hawk

Posted: May 3, 2013 at 1:51 pm

Ever since the Federal Reserve began its first quantitative easing program in late 2008, Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker has been warning that future inflation is going to run wild ...
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Tame March CPI Supports Market Recovery

Posted: April 16, 2013 at 8:45 am

The U.S. Labor Department has provided retail inflation data via the March Consumer Price Index (CPI). CPI came in at -0.2% on the headline report, with only a gain of 0.1% ...
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March PPI Shows Low Wholesale Inflation, but Rising Food Costs Will Hit Home

Posted: April 12, 2013 at 8:47 am

Wholesale inflation may be on the rise, depending on how you view this. The U.S. Labor Department has released its March Producer Price Index showing that the headline PPI was ...
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Good Jobless Claims Meet Tame Import/Export Inflation

Posted: April 11, 2013 at 8:42 am

Weekly jobless claims from the Labor Department had shown three consecutive increases, but that is now being undone. The weekly claims fell by a sharp 42,000, from 388,000 down to ...
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Producer Prices and Weekly Jobless Claims Support the Market Rally Again

Posted: March 14, 2013 at 8:50 am

Two bits of data were released from the Labor Department today. Weekly jobless claims is a live reading, and producer prices measuring wholesale inflation is a February reading. With the ...
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Investors Still Buying Treasury TIPS At Negative Interest Rates

Posted: January 24, 2013 at 1:45 pm

The government is somehow managing to borrow money at what are negative interest rates right now via the Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, or TIPS. When a TIPS matures, the investor is ...
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World Central Banks Want Their Gold at Home — Should Investors? (GLD, GDX)

Posted: January 23, 2013 at 8:36 am

In an effort to meet their rising debt obligations, central banks around the globe have been printing money at a frantic pace. This phenomena is also leading to a global battle ...
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Despite QE-Led Money Printing, Inflation Remains Elusive

Posted: January 16, 2013 at 8:47 am

Investors saw a slew of economic data on Tuesday, and in that data was a reading that wholesale inflation was under control. That should have put fears aside that inflation ...
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Stocks to Buy for the Coming Rise in Interest Rates (UBS, AMTD, SCHW, LNC, UNM, HIG)

Posted: January 15, 2013 at 9:42 am

We recently wrote that shorting the Treasury bond market may very well be the next biggest short-sale trade since the subprime mortgage short. While rates have dipped a little in the ...
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Very Mixed Bag on Economic Data: Inflation, Retail Sales and Empire Manufacturing

Posted: January 15, 2013 at 8:59 am

A slew of economic data was released this morning. We got a look at retail sales, wholesale inflation via producer prices, and also the Empire Manufacturing reading. Some data is ...
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Is Inflation the Hibernating Bear?

Posted: December 17, 2012 at 8:18 am

The main objective of the Federal Reserve is to conduct the nation's monetary policy by influencing money and credit in the economy in pursuit of full employment and stable prices. ...
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Inflation Remains Within Targets in November

Posted: December 14, 2012 at 8:46 am

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is out with its reading on inflation. In November, the Consumer Price Index was -0.3% on the headline, and the core rate, excluding food and ...
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