by Ted Bauman | Jan 11, 2022 | Bauman Daily, Bond Yields, Consumer Spending, Crypto, Economy, Federal Reserve, Interest Rates, Investing
On Sunday morning, my wife and I watched The Big Short. It’s about four hedge funds that shorted the U.S. mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market starting in 2005. Everyone else assumed MBS were the safest investment on the planet. As clueless Wall Streeters in the...
by Clinton Lee | Oct 6, 2021 | Bauman Daily, big tech, Bond Yields, ETF, Stock Market, Trading Strategies, Treasury, U.S. Economy
Is it a stock market or a market of stocks? That philosophical question has a way of stirring up heated debates among analysts. The former resonates well with investors that prefer to buy and hold the broader market, like through an index fund. The latter believe that...
by Ted Bauman | Oct 5, 2021 | Bauman Daily, Bond Yields, COVID-19, Evergrande, Investing, Market Volatility, Treasury, U.S. Economy, Volatilility
Predicting the future direction of the stock market is a damned if you do, damned if you don’t proposition. That’s why some analysts avoid it altogether. They say you can safely ignore the ups and downs of an index like the S&P 500. Others say that predicting...
by Angela Jirau | Aug 30, 2021 | Bauman Daily, Bond Yields, Federal Reserve, Inflation, Interest Rates, Treasury, Wealth Protection
Fed Chairman Powell gave the market exactly what it wanted on Friday. Interest rates barely budged. There’s no immediate talk of tapering. And stocks in practically every sector shot up in response — growth, energy, cyclicals. But does that mean it’s time to pile into...
by Angela Jirau | Mar 1, 2021 | Bauman Daily, Bond Yields, Interest Rates, Investing, Stocks
Last week, bond yields jumped faster than they have at nearly any other point in the last 20 years. The Nasdaq plummeted 5%, dragged down by huge losses for 2021’s biggest winning stocks. The market fears subsided this morning as yields edged back down. But will...
