Federal Reserve minutes show bank not yet ready for yield curve targeting
So Wall Street still has something to look forward to from the Federal Reserve. In the minutes from the June 10 meeting of its interest rate setting Open Market Committee, Federal officials said that they wanted to ind a way to provide more forward guidance on...
The debt load for consumers and companies just keeps rising
We'll soon get new figures from the Federal Reserve now that the second quarter is coming to an end today, but I'd guess that the debt picture won't be better than it was at the end of the first quarter on March 31. At the end of May non-financial corporate debt in...
Don’t fight the Fed? Well, maybe
The advice "Don't fight the Fed" makes sense. If the Fed is flooding the financial markets with cash, then buy and follow along as the Fed makes money available to drive up asset prices. If the Fed is tightening, reducing the available supply of cash, then sell and...
Fed announces names of its first direct corporate bond purchases
This strikes me as a bad idea. What could possibly go wrong? The U.S. central bank made $207 million in purchases on June 16, the first day of direct buying. The Federal Reserve bought bonds issued by, among other companies, AT&T (T), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), and...
Selling Japanese yen ETF out of Jubak Picks Portfolio
A while back I sold the Invesco Currency Shares Japanese Yen ETF (FXY) out of my Perfect Five ETF Portfolio because I was looking for more diversification in that limited five ETF portfolio. (I replaced it with the iShares Large Cap China ETF (FXI) on April 20, 2020....Wall Street’s hope for the next big thing from the Fed: Yield curve control
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Fed pledges to hold interest rates near 0% through 2022–stocks dip anyway
Could this be the first signs that the financial markets are questioning Goldilocks? Investors and traders heard almost everything they could have hoped to hear from the Federal Reserve's interest-rate setting Open Market Committee meeting today. Sure, the Fed didn't...
Saturday Night Quarterback (on a Monday) says, For the week ahead expect…
... the rally to extend on "good news" from the Federal Reserve. The Fed's Open Market Committee meets on Wednesday, June 10. The CME Fed Watch Tool says that there's just about no-chance that the Fed will move on its benchmark interest rate, now at 0% to 0.25%. The...
A near-term threat to the V-shaped recovery
Stock prices--3068.76 on for the Standard & Poor's 500 as of 1 p.m. New York time today--continue to climb toward the all-time closing record for the S&P 500 at 3386.15 set on February 19. That makes some sense if you believe that the Federal Reserve will...
Wall Street starts to watch something called the market price/liquidity ratio to justify this rally
The Standard & Poor's 500 stock index may be closing in on the February 19 record closing high of 3386.15--about 11.2% from the Friday, May 29, close at 3044.31, but some Wall Street strategists see more rally ahead--with a close at the end of 2020 near 3,500 as a...
Even after yesterday’s rip-roaring gains, the S&P 500 is stuck–so what comes next?
Yesterday, May 18, the Standard & Poor's 500 closed at 2953. We've been here before. Several times, in fact. On May 8, the index closed at 2929.80. On April 29, the close was 2939. With the 200-day moving average at 2998.,56, even yesterday's big move doesn't...Jim’s Stock Alerts
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