Anthony Crescenzi
Anthony Crescenzi
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The risk aversion was a touch smaller today, but it was more of a toe-step into the markets that were beaten up badly.
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Right now we have to take a step back and say how much further can we go with this news. Where fed funds are now, at 6.5 percent, makes it somewhat difficult for the (bond) market to trade higher or lower in yield.
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The Treasury market rally may be a bear trap. The rally lacks a strong foundation as well as the extreme pessimism that marks the end of sell-offs.
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The Treasury market rally may be a bear trap, ... The rally lacks a strong foundation as well as the extreme pessimism that marks the end of sell-offs.
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There are growing indications the market is more stable,
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The recent rally in the stock market might be captured (in the numbers).
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When risk aversion is declining, money will flow out of the safe-haven Treasury market into riskier assets, ... High-yield bonds have increased in price in the past week; holders of junk bonds are doing well right now.
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The bond market expects the stock market to fall very hard ... people are trading scared.
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They could have said there's a clear acceleration in economic activity currently under way, but it remains at risk of weakening or reversing, owing to the labor market and other factors. To leave it out completely doesn't make any sense to me -- it's as if they think the market's full of dummies.
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Unless the Bush administration can successfully counter recent criticism, Bush and consumer confidence might continue to flounder. If so, the markets will justifiably worry about Bush's chances of re-election.
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This is not a good way to intervene, to tell the markets ... What you want them to do is panic their way out of their positions.
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Greenspan's comments have been so specific to the markets and costs. The price index was worse than the market would have liked.
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Greenspan's comments have been so specific to the markets and costs, ... The price index was worse than the market would have liked.
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In a sense the market exhausted itself on the downside yesterday,