As word leaked out this morning that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will be reappointed to a second four year term a few items from Greenspan’s personal notes most recently printed in the book Maestro are worth noting. Greenspan noted in…
The Federal Reserve meeting press release, (see link below) gives us a bit of concern from an artificial market force. Here is the meat of the release in case you are having trouble with the link “As previously announced,…
While not fretting, we are certainly keeping a very close watch on interest rates. This week, actually in the next few days, the Treasury will auction (fancy Wall Street talk for sell to hopeful buyers) $115 billion in new instruments.…
In our earlier post “Interest Rates, Friend or Foe” we spoke of the concerns of higher interest rates and the headwinds that higher rates create. Being that most investor’s memories do not stretch for many decades, we continue to mention interest…
In our last post concerning interest rates, we included a graph and commented on the sudden movement of the 10 year treasury. Due to the many questions from our post and from the attention the genearal media has been giving…
Over the last year interest rates have been extremely low. Since 1980, (a recent generation of investors lives) we have been in a steady march downward in interest rates. It is highly possible that the stimulus being added to our…
Russell Napier, former Attorney, researcher, and author of “Anatomy of a Bear” earned our “Ugly” label, not because of his looks, but rather due to his market call. Mr. Napier began his presentation with don’t worry the market will…
The following graph is of the Yield on the 30 Year Treasury. If the line is rising, rates are going up. Even with Fed speaking of buying Treasuries, rates are rising…..this is a very short term period, but worth keeping…
Recent comments from the new (announced 1-26-09) Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (Former NY Fed President) to China with a key word towards their currency policy “manipulation” of offsetting exchange rates has set fixed income traders on edge sending Treasury rates…
