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Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Treasury Market Roundup
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It wouldn't be a Bonddad entry if I didn't mention something about charts. So, let's see what they say. The short-end of the cu...
Monday, June 2, 2008
Today's Markets
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What a way to start the week. First, we learned the financials are not doing that well, with Wachovia and Washington Mutual both firing o...
Consumers Are Scrambling for Cash
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From the WSJ: As consumers max out their credit lines and banks clamp down on lending, many older and middle-class Americans are resorting t...
Personal Incomes and Spending Slow
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The good news from the report is the year over year number popped up. However, considering the overall trend for the last 9 months has been...
Market Mondays
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Let's take a look at the charts to see what they say. The SPYs started to rally at the end of 2006, and hit a point in 2006 that formed ...
Friday, May 30, 2008
Weekend Weimar and Beagle
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Usually there is a picture here of Mr. and Mr$. Bonddad's dogs. But Bonddad is writing this from his Iphone because BD is current at hi...
Quarterly Banking Profile Roundup
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The FDIC has released its Quarterly Banking Profile. Here are the salient points. Deteriorating asset quality concentrated in real estate ...
Forex Fridays
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Let's take a look at the charts of the three biggies -- the dollar, the euro and the yen. On the weekly dollar chart, notice that prices...
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Today's Markets
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Two big pieces of good news today. Oil dropped more than $4 (when was the last time I wrote that. In addition, the economy grew at a . 9%...
It's the Debt, Stupid
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One of the first trends I noticed with the latest US expansion is the record amount of debt that was involved. Simply put -- this was a bor...
Sorting Out All the Spin in Durable Goods
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There are times when I could literally just scream at the incredible amount of political bullshit that goes on with economic numbers. It ju...
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