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Why Have US 10-Year Yields Risen 30 bp since Monday?

August 27, 2015
US 10-year Treasury yield has risen 30 bp since Monday's low water mark.  The are a number of reports that try to link the backing up in US yields to purported to be sales by China. The Chinese sales, in turn, are linked to its efforts to stem the decline in the yuan.  
China may indeed have sold Treasuries.  Bill Gross at Janus apparently sugg…
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Great Graphic: Australian Dollar Tests Monthly Trend Line

August 27, 2015
This Great Graphic, created on Bloomberg, is a monthly chart of the Australian dollar.     The decline this week has brought it to the trend line drawn off the 2001 and 2008 lows. It is found now near $0.7025.  The cyclical low was recorded at the start of the week near $0.7050. 
The corrective bounce, helped by the stabilization of Chinese equitie…
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Markets Continue to Recover

August 27, 2015
The global capital markets are staging a convincing recovery.   The strong sustained gains in US equities yesterday has fueled continued recovery in Asia and Europe.  The strong rally of the Shanghai Composite in the last hour of domestic trading looked to be officially goosed, and some are linking to the redoubling of efforts to get the market to…
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The Significance of the Durable Goods Orders

August 26, 2015
The US dollar and US equity futures responded favorably to the stronger than expected durable goods orders.  The sizable upward revision in the June shipments (from 0.3% to 0.9%) underscore expectations that Q2 GDP will be revised sharply higher when reported tomorrow.  
Headline durable goods orders rose 2% in July and 2.2% excluding military orde…
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Three-D North American Session

August 26, 2015
The inability of the US stock market to sustain gains following the Chinese rate cut has left the market unsettled.  Similarly despite early gains, Chinese stocks finished lower, with the losing streak extended into a fifth session.  
Many Asian markets did gain, including a 3.2% rise in the Nikkei, and the MSCI Asia-Pacific Index gained about 1.5%…
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