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“The job market was lousy, now it's been upgraded to good,”
Christopher Low
“It's nice to know that the Fed is taking (exotic home loans) seriously. It looks like (Greenspan's) trying ... to squeeze out the speculative element in housing; they don't want a repeat of the stock bubble.”
“There is no sign of an immediate pass through of energy to core prices, but consumers spent with abandon considering their lack of confidence in the continued health of the economy. That is likely to bolster the Fed's fear of future inflation and reinvigorate their will to raise rates.”
“There is no sign of an immediate pass-through of energy to core prices, but consumers spent with abandon considering their lack of confidence. That is likely to bolster the Fed's fear of future inflation and reinvigorate their will to raise rates.”
“The job market was lousy, now it's been upgraded to good.”
“It's a big surprise. There has been plenty of anecdotal evidence of regional weakness, but none of the national numbers have shown weakness.”
“Today, the first auction of 30-year Treasury bonds in (almost) five years is expected to go well.”
“So far, the refunding has been a mixed bag. The three-year saw little foreign interest and had a low bid-to-cover, but the 10-year went a little better yesterday.”
“The decline helps affirm cooling in the housing sector and is consistent with other broad-based data we have seen.”
“One reason the 10-year note yield has risen so much this week is that investors are worried that the end of the carry trade -- a trade that involves borrowing at very low rates in Japan and investing at higher rates abroad -- will end any day now.”
