John Lonski
John Lonski
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The Fed will eventually move to a neutral stance, and I don't think we're there yet. When we start to see payrolls of 200,000 a month, I expect the yield on the 10-year note will hit 4.5 percent and the Fed will become less patient.
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Don't rush out to buy long-term bonds as rates are rising unless you're convinced that the economy is going to slow significantly.
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Five years of having equity market growth of 25 percent a year seems to be a thing of the past. The law of long-term averages is reasserting itself.
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is in no hurry to go ahead and increase interest rates.
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It would help to put in a bottom if we had a clearer idea of what may happen in Iraq,
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This could mark a turning point. After all, the Fed was right, the latest slowdown was temporary and the economy is about to gain speed going into the second half of 2005, which would imply that more rate hikes lie ahead.
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This could be interpreted as evidence of a still soft, sluggish economy.
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This brings the possibility of steeper-than-anticipated gains in profits.
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The super-sized issue from AT&T reminds us of how . . . investor demand for long-term investment-grade corporate bonds is very strong. Corporate America has more than offset (the) reduction in federal borrowing . . . brought on by the emergence of the federal budget surplus.
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The credit market right now is bracing for some bad news. Yields should continue heading higher until the U.S. economy slackens appreciably.
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It makes sense to sell 30-year bonds now. This is an attractive opportunity to extend maturities.
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They're perhaps encouraged by the improved measures of corporate financial health. We've had relatively brisk growth by profitability ever since early 2002.
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Unless energy prices ease, the holiday shopping season will probably be mediocre at best.
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We can talk about GDP, but what does that mean to most people? The everyday American has a better handle on where the Dow is today, where it was not long ago and where it was at its peak.