10-year Treasury Tag

Taper Trade Back In Play

01 Nov, by Knowledge Leaders Team in Uncategorized

The taper trade appears to be back on this week.  Some of the basic symptoms of this trade are: 1) higher interest rates, 2) higher US dollar, 3) lower gold and 4) weakening stocks.  Charts below showing the last 10 days of activity reveal this...

Mixed signals coming out of the US

31 Oct, by Knowledge Leaders Team in Uncategorized

There doesn’t seem to be a trend in the US economic releases recently. In the past week we have had weaker housing data (Pending Home Sales), an ok production data point (Industrial Production), below consensus employment report (ADP), a weaker regional survey (Dallas Fed), and...