Needless to say, watching (and feeling) your money being eaten alive by a multi-year bear market is not pleasant. In fact it’s the kind of experience that might prompt you to make a change by, say, selling your shares and giving up on the market once and for all.
January 3rd, 2012 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "bonds"
Avoiding the Market Danger Zones in the Year Ahead
(Ed Note: Bill penned this note as 2011 was drawing to a close). The markets are fairly quiet. The politicians are keeping their mouths closed too. Here at The Daily Reckoning Christmas headquarters we’re drinking eggnog, eating fruitcake and wondering what 2012 will bring. We’ve given up trying to actually look into the future. We don’t seem to have the knack for it.
January 3rd, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
US Bonds Ride Euro’s Demise
The looming breakdown of the Euro is a massively deflationary event for stock and commodity prices (although not US bonds, as you’ll see in a moment). It’s going to dominate the news until the moment reaches its crisis. And the crisis may be at hand.
November 22nd, 2011 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
Say You Want a Revolution?
Greek communists are usually a reliable bastion of error and darkness. Their ideas are appalling. Their proposals are absurd. The only thing they are not wrong about is their opinion of the ruling classes – whom they regard as morons
May 10th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Default Threat Rises
Let’s pause for a moment to reconsider what may have happened last week with Wall Street’s “trading glitch.” Is it possible that traders saw the cops beating protestors in the Streets and surmised this: No matter what deal European leaders come up with to bailout Greece, that deal isn’t going to fly on the streets of Athens.
May 10th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 13 comments | Continued
Surprises of the Crisis
On cue, all hell broke loose in Europe. Markets fell, bonds plummeted, and the cost of insuring debt went through the roof. But the Daily Reckoning has been telling you about all this for a while now. It shouldn’t be a surprise. That’s not to say there weren’t plenty of surprises anyway.
May 1st, 2010 | Nickolai Hubble | 9 comments | Continued
More Extend and Pretend
And now you get the feeling that policy makers only have a couple of bullets left in their gun to prevent a bigger panic in the market. Of course, maybe it just feels that way because of the drumbeat of coverage in the media.
April 29th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
BIS Snubs Greek Bonds
Uh oh. Just when you thought it was safe to jump back into Greece again, news comes that Greek borrowing costs have soared above 7% interest. AFP reports that, “Taxi drivers and lawyers have begun strikes against planned budget cuts.” Yet the important news here is that despite the assurances of loans from the EU, market investors are making the Greeks pay to borrow.
April 15th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
Goldman Stole the Money Fair and Square
But Goldman Sachs is as cool as a cucumber. Goldman released its annual report earlier this week. The firm said it hadn’t done anything wrong.
April 9th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
Hike in Fed Funds Rate Would Cause Damage to Collateral on Books of America’s Banks
It’s not the big money-centre banks in Wall Street you have to worry about. It’s the smaller regional and community banks. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation shut four more of them over the weekend. That’s 20 for this year, which is a lot less than the 140 last year. But if you wanted to see a spike in U.S. bank failures, you’d definitely raise interest rates.
February 22nd, 2010 | Dan Denning | 41 comments | Continued
Credit Default Swap: Buying Insurance Against Default in Your Bonds
While Australians march down the path of a national house price obsession/mania, the world’s bond traders are firing warning shots. Bloomberg reports that, “Credit default swap (CDS) protection buying against sovereign debt default has spiked to five times the level of similar protection bought for corporate bonds, as the potential for a wave of sovereign debt defaults intensifies.”
January 28th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 6 comments | Continued
You Can Lead Investors to Liquidity but You Can’t Make Them Buy Stocks
Our version of this Christmas story is that a long-term bear market began in 2000. This was the fall-out from the dot.com boom and the end of an 18-year bull market in stocks that had begun in 1982. Left to its own devices, the market would have declined to more reasonable valuations and companies would have sorted out real ways to grow earnings.
December 14th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
Fed and the Reverse Repo
The only way to exit is by the door the Fed came in. It barged into the market buying up toxic assets and Treasury notes and bonds. In order to get back out the door, it has to get rid of all the debt it gobbled up.
December 3rd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Finding Assets that Out Run Inflation as Bond Yields Move Up
The week began with your editor wondering how the bond market would choke down another $81 billion in U.S. Treasury debt. On Monday, it swallowed $40 billion in three-year notes with gusto, and even belched in satisfaction. Demand, analysts said, hadn’t been that strong since 1990-when the bond vigilantes used the bond market as a weapon to discipline government spending.
November 13th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 6 comments | Continued
Stocks, Bonds and Economy All Bounce
And if we’re following the Japanese experience, with a long, slow on-again/off-again period of depression, we can expect some quarters of growth, followed by quarters of non-growth.
November 9th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
