Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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MORNING MINUTE EQUITIES, FUTURES & OPTIONS MAY 22nd
POLITICAL DEADLOCK WITH DEBT CEILING ISSUES ALONG WITH POTENTIALLY MORE HIKES DOESN’T SEEM TO DETER THE STOCK MARKET BULLS, BUT SHOULD THEY BEWARE?
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GOP debt negotiators say White House is not being reasonable and GOP negotiators leave debt talks
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Fed Chair Powell says policy rate may not have to rise as far as otherwise due to tightened bank credit conditions
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Fed Chair Powell says inflation is far above Fed objective; high inflation poses significant hardship; Fed strongly committed to returning to 2% goal, failure would strongly cause greater harm
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ECB’s Schnabel says ECB has a clear mandate of price stability, financial stability is a precondition for price stability, and vice versa
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MORNING MINUTE EQUITIES, FUTURES & OPTIONS MAY 19th
With less than two weeks to go before the US runs out of cash, optimism is building that both sides of Congress will come together to prevent the unthinkable. Policymakers in Washington hinted yesterday that a bill to raise the US debt ceiling may be put to a vote next week. This encouraging development spurred […]
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END OF DAY REPORT EQUITIES, FUTURES & OPTIONS
A slew of hawkish Fed speak caused money markets rates to creep up to a 40% implied June hike while we still await a resolution to the debt ceiling debacle
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US House GOP McHenry says nothing close to being done on debt ceiling talks
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DOOMSDAY SCENARIO, Here’s what could happen if the debt ceiling is breached ?
WHAT IS THE DEBT CEILING EXACTLY? The whole concept of a debt ceiling itself was built by federal lawmakers during World War One. It gave the U.S. Treasury the ability to issue bonds without congressional approval, but only if the total debt of the federal government stayed under a specified “ceiling”. Now every government has […]
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