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POPSInterest rates are going up With short term rates at or near zero, they can't o lower. The only way way rates can go is up. The questions remain; how high and how fast. This article does a much better job than I can about explaining what the bond market is facing. maybe the move up in rates won't be as dramatic as the article suggests, but we all should prepare ourselves for it.
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POPSOn Complexity, Chaos & Collapse The size of the financial sector must be reduced. It's original purposes have been perverted. Its very size is a measure of it dysfunction. They have confused their self-serving maps of the territory for the territory itself.
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POPSUS Postal Service Holidays | 2009 US Postal Service Holidays: Columbus Day became a US holiday in 1971. It is generally observed by banks, the bond market, the Postal Service and other federal agencies, along with most ... us postal service holidays, us postal service holidays 2009, us postal service, bank holidays 2009, uspostalservice, bank holidays 2009 usa
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POPSAustralian & Canadian Employers Adding Jobs! ......after a 31,900 increase in August. The jobless rate was probably unchanged at a 33-year low of 4.3 percent. The Bureau of Statistics releases the report tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. in Sydney. Sustained jobs growth justifies the Reserve Bank's decision to raise its benchmark interest rate in August to damp inflation pressures in an economy that is growing at the fastest annual pace in three years. Miners are hiring workers as they expand to meet surging Chinese demand and retailers are opening new stores as consumer spending picks up. ``The odds favor another decent jobs number, consistent with the underlying strength of the economy,'' said Su-Lin Ong, senior economist at RBC Capital Markets in Sydney. ``We expect the unemployment rate to hold down at a three-decade low confirming the stretched nature of the labor market.''
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POPSRoubini Sees Increasing Risk of Double-Dip Recession: Update1 
“There are risks associated with exit strategies from the massive monetary and fiscal easing,” Roubini wrote. “Policy makers are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.” Government and central bank officials may undermine the recovery and tip their economies back into “stagdeflation” if they raise taxes, cut spending and mop up excess liquidity in their systems to reduce fiscal deficits, Roubini says. He defines “stagdeflation” as recession and deflation. Market Vigilantes Those who maintain large budget deficits will be punished by bond market vigilantes, as inflationary expectations and yields on long-term government bonds rise and borrowing costs climb sharply, he wrote. That will in turn lead to stagflation, Roubini said. European Central Bank officials led by President Jean- Claude Trichet are suggesting they won’t rush to reverse their emergency stimulus amid mounting evidence of an economic recovery. The ECB has cut its benchmark interest rate
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POPSMarkets Off to a Flyer! This morning we have a positive start to the week with a big shift in Yen crosses and the sell off of the US dollar. Risk appetite has returned to the market with a boost for the other major currencies. Read more at Currency Market Updates.
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POPSThe Road to Economic Demoralization -- Going the Wrong Way
Heavy government controls at home, along with an income-leveling social policy couched in economic-recovery terms, is no way to run a railroad. At the simple stroke of a computer key, world investment flows to its most hospitable destination. That includes a reliable currency. But in President Bush's last year and President Obama's first, the United States has become a less hospitable destination for global capital. That should worry everybody. But let's first look to the China story. We know that China is already our principal banker, to the tune of nearly $1 trillion. As President Obama's record spending and borrowing continues -- he'll be the greatest bond salesman in American history -- our financial reliance on China grows daily. But that's not all. Fortune magazine recently reported that the number of U.S. companies in the world's top 500 fell to the lowest level ever, while more Chinese firms than ever made the list. Thirty-seven Chinese companies now rank in the top 50
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POPSPessimistic executives cash out of shares Here is the same story last month, except this month, the inside selling is more than last month's record! "US market’s best-informed participants do not find valuations compelling. April saw the lowest level of insider buying (by people associated with the company) ever recorded by research firm TrimTabs with insider selling 14 times as high. Likewise, companies sold 64 per cent more shares than they bought in April." http://openintelligence.amplify.com/?s=shares+selling
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POPSBond Futures : Interest Rate Futures : by BondFuturesTrading.com Everything you ever wanted to know about CBOT interest rate futures markets. Treasury bond futures contracts are an important part of learning how to trade futures and have their own interest rate fundamentals and are important to people who are interested in how interest rate hedging and government bond futures work.
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POPSCould We Be Near the Big Collapse? The U.S. Treasury must sell a record net $2 trillion in new debt in 2009 to fund a $1.8 trillion projected fiscal deficit, resulting from falling tax revenues, an economic stimulus package and sundry bank bailouts.
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POPSJim Willie's COMEX Prediction China is the biggest gold producer in the world now, but none of its output is directed to the open market. Russia is a significant gold producer also, but none of its output is directed to the open market either. A near default occurred in early April from a close call to Deutsche Bank on 850 thousand ounces of gold. Far less gold bullion rests in COMEX vaults than is advertised.
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POPSPenny Stocks Stockegg.com continues to put out the best penny stock alerts in the market.Our uncanny accuracy for big penny stock winners is evident by ourlarge membership.Penny stocks and Pink sheets. For more details visit us at http://www.stockegg.com/
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POPSAnother Myrtle Beach tourist zone has foot in grave Market Common was a great idea - but not for the Myrtle Beach local market (or tourist market for that matter). Getting there is hell because of traffic, it's easily forgotten, and as a walkable "community" its a ghost town because they couldn't sell any of the real estate. Which they needed to do to prop up its commercial element.
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POPSDebt Mutual Funds Kotak Bond is a pure debt scheme. This debt funds or debt scheme aims to generate high returns at the same time reduce risk by investing in corporate bonds with credit rating not below AA.
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POPSAmerican Taxpayers To Guarantee Downside Risk On Geithner's Plan Others to criticise the plan include former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Levitt, and Bill Gross, of bond manager PIMCO, who has said he does not believe the plan will be enough to solve the banking crisis. It is understood that the PPIP was only finalised after Treasury officials, led by Mr Geithner, spoke to a number of senior bankers on Wall Street, including JP Morgan Chase chairman Jamie Dimon, in the hope of getting a plan that was workable for the market, following the dismissal of Mr Geithner's earlier attempt to solve the financial crisis. As a result, a number of major banks and bond houses are understood to have already agreed to sign up to the programme, with PIMCO and BlackRock among two investors to have raised their hands. Others remain less convinced.
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POPSBack to the 80s? Smaller partnerships that specialize in trading bonds and other securities are rising from the ashes of the financial crisis, getting a boost from federal efforts to cap pay at the big Wall Street firms.
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