Huffing and puffing at the Fed appears to have had some impact: Median one- and three-year-ahead inflation expectations both declined sharply in July, from 6.8 percent and 3.6 percent in June to 6.2 percent and …
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MAPF Portfolio Composition : July, 2022
Turnover remained low at 3% in July. Market volumes have been very low for quite some time, having never really recovered from the usual summer decline in 2021. Sectoral distribution of the MAPF portfolio on …
August 5, 2022
Holy smokes! Jobs, jobs, jobs! U.S. employers added 528,000 jobs in July, the Labor Department said on Friday, an unexpectedly strong gain that shows the labor market is withstanding the economic impact of higher interest …
August 4, 2022
The New York Fed released its Weekly Economic Index today, estimating annual Real GDP growth as of June 30, 2022, bumping along at +1.62%, but still positive! Here are some cheerful words from the Bank …
August 3, 2022
TXPR closed at 617.59, up 1.01% on the day. Volume today was 1.28-million, about the median of the past 21 trading days. CPD closed at 12.26, up 0.74% on the day. Volume was 51,390, near …
August 2, 2022
Excitement in the bond market today, which I have seen attributed to San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly’s remarks: The Federal Reserve’s work of bringing down inflation is “nowhere near” almost done, San Francisco Fed …
July 29, 2022
TXPR closed at 611.97, up 1.75% on the day. Volume today was 1.40-million, well above the median of the past 21 trading days. The last two days, while gratifying, were not enough to put the …
July 28, 2022
TXPR closed at 601.46, up 1.02% on the day. Volume today was 1.49-million, well above the median of the past 21 trading days. CPD closed at 12.00, up 1.61% on the day. Volume was 42,290, …
July 27, 2022
There were no big surprises in the FOMC announcement of a 75bp policy hike: Recent indicators of spending and production have softened. Nonetheless, job gains have been robust in recent months, and the unemployment rate …
July 26, 2022
HIMIPref™ Preferred Indices These values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ Indices Values are provisional and are finalized monthly Index Mean Current Yield (at bid) Median YTW Median Average Trading Value Median Mod …