Alfonso Peccatiello's Opinion & Analysis
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On Friday, the credit agency Moody’s downgraded the US rating by one notch to Aa1 (equivalent to AA+).
By now, you’ve probably read tens of opinion pieces arguing this is the beginning of the end,...
On Friday, the credit agency Moody’s downgraded the US rating by one notch to Aa1 (equivalent to AA+).
By now, you’ve probably read tens of opinion pieces arguing this is the beginning of the end,...
Universities and mainstream economic courses teach us that governments need money to fund their spending, Central Banks have the authority to print money we use, and commercial banks lend and...
Trump caves in and slashes tariffs on China back to 30%.
In his negotiation approach, Trump tends to follow a very volatile yet relatively consistent strategy.My friend Marko Papic created this...
Bond Market investors are bumping up the odds of a US recession.Everyone can see the bond market is throwing a tantrum: front-end yields have rapidly declined signaling nervousness about the state of...
If long-end bond yields spiral out of control, the Fed could start injecting liquidity again: a step-by-step guide of how it works.
When a few weeks ago 30-year bond yields briefly flirted with the...
Hear, hear: the US Dollar is going down.
Investors love to attach an ex-post narrative to any price action, and this time the blame was on Trump’s erratic policies, the reduced attractiveness of US...
A lot of ink has been spilled on two of the pillars of the Bond Vigilantes Trade: the decline in the US Dollar and the S&P 500.
Yet people tend to forget a true macro Bond Vigilantes trade also...
It's time to talk about Bond Vigilantes.
How Does a Proper Bond Vigilantes Trade Work?
Contrary to popular belief, a true bond vigilantes trade doesn't only require bond yields to go up. Bond yields...
Last week, heavily leveraged bond trades were unwound in a spectacular fashion.And while the worst might be behind for now, I don’t see a structural fix to this bond market imbalance.There are two...