William Sullivan
William Sullivan
funds grips
We are also in the grips of liquidations by hedge funds and a lot of dealers don't want to see big exposures,
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Inflation was probably a little bit stronger than expected, so against that backdrop we don't expect a substantial Treasury market rally. We may get some short-covering, but many observers will sense that this is a soft patch.
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indicating this may be the last change in monetary policy for a while.
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The big influence on bonds is stocks' ability to move higher,
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The benign performance at the wholesale level may not necessarily wash through at the retail level. But there is no doubt that there is good news for U.S. consumers in the context of declining food and energy prices.
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The retrenchment in equities will undoubtedly affect the economy later in the year, ... This is not just a correction, it's an economic event that could affect consumer confidence and consumer spending down the road, leading to a more pronounced slowdown than the Fed is currently factoring in.
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The new issue calendar had dried up for all kinds of issuers. But now, the corporate calendar is building again.
building calendar corporate dried issue kinds
The new issue calendar had dried up for all kinds of issuers, ... But now, the corporate calendar is building again.
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The fear here is the economy is overheating. And this points to a Federal Reserve with a much tighter monetary policy.
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I'm afraid we're not taking account of how foreign investors view this. That puts U.S. leadership at risk. I wouldn't rule out a sharp fall in the dollar.
accounting
It's impressive, but it's probably technical. We still have these accounting questions.
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It was an incredible session, a testimony to nothing else other than volatility led by hedge- fund position activity.
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The Fed is continuing to study credit tea leaves, and perhaps they sense there's more stresses out there and they want to be in front of that by providing liquidity and communicating their support to the marketplace,
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The Fed has more or less backed away from this pre-emptive approach that they talked so much about in recent months. In fact, the Senate could say that Alan Greenspan & Co. caved in to the political criticism on Capitol Hill that we saw emanate over the last few weeks,