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Bi-Weekly Economic Review: Examining Rates

Is the rate hiking cycle almost done? Not the question on everyone's minds right now so a good time to ask it, I think. A couple of items caught my attention recently that made me at least think about the possibility. There has been for some time now a large short position held by speculators in the futures market for [...]

Collateral Issues Gaining More Widespread Attention

By Jeffrey P. Snider|2013-09-16T15:43:07-04:00September 16th, 2013|Markets|

The headline of the article Joe Calhoun sent me this morning doesn’t quite square with the content that follows. It screams that, “BIS Debunks Claims of Collateral Shortage”. As is often the case, the editor responsible for the headline may have been engaging in intentional hyperbole that would not necessarily be agreeable to the BIS authors highlighted within the piece, [...]

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