Category: Liquidity

June 12, 2019

As the market’s conviction of a rate cut keeps growing firmer, another Wall Street bank came out defying the consensus. UBS joined Goldman Sachs in warning that the market’s expectation for a rate cut is not realistic because recent economic […]

June 4, 2019

If the Federal Reserve meets market expectations and cuts interest rates this year, it would be more to assuage flagging confidence than it would be to address any particular ill. After all, most of the signs for the economy remain […]

May 21, 2019

Stocks are weathering the latest bouts of increasing trade war fears, but the bond market is pointing to more trouble ahead. The S&P 500 is up 1% since a massive sell-off to start last week. The broad index also remains […]

April 24, 2019

Companies seem to be talking a little bit more about how price increases are helping profits, an early sign that more inflation could be seeping into the economy. “It’s not bad. [Prices] are sticking a little bit. Anecdotal evidence is […]

March 19, 2019

The Board of Directors of U.S. Bancorp (USB) has declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.37 per common share, payable April 15, 2019, to stockholders of record at the close of business on March 29, 2019. At this quarterly dividend […]

March 15, 2019

From the perspective of a community or regional bank, one of the most ominious trends in the industry right now is the organic deposit growth at the nation’s biggest banks. This trend has gotten a lot of attention in recent […]

March 7, 2019

Treasury yields fell Thursday, along with its European peers, after the European Central Bank launched fresh stimulus measures, said it was unlikely to increase rates through the end of 2019 and downgraded its forecast for economic growth. The 10-year Treasury […]

March 5, 2019

Treasury yield bounced back from the previous session’s decline, ahead of a gauge of the service sector’s health. The 10-year Treasury note yield TMUBMUSD10Y, +0.60% picked up 2.2 basis points to 2.744%, while the 2-year note yield TMUBMUSD02Y, +0.16% added […]

February 28, 2019

U.S. Treasury prices retreated, nudging yields higher, on Thursday after a reading of gross domestic product for the fourth quarter showed that the economy in 2018 grew at its fastest clip since 2015. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note […]

February 21, 2019

The Federal Reserve is likely near the end of interest rate increases and the program to reduce the bonds it holds on its balance sheet, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said Thursday. “I think the message from my point […]