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FOMC Minutes Tilt Hawkish: 'Inflation Risks Skewed To The Upside' Due To AIWhile today's market moves (post-Bessent's OpTwist bailout) are changing things rapidly, since the last FOMC meeting, on July 19th, where Warsh held rates (hawkishly) unchanged (in the biggest surprise to market expectations in decades) amid multiple dissents, gold, bitcoin, and
2026.08.191322
Minutes of the Federal Open Market CommitteeA joint meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System was held in the offices of the Board of Governors on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. and continued on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. The manager began by no
2026.08.191323
Fed Minutes set to provide clues about the degree of support for interest-rate hikesThe United States (US) Federal Reserve (Fed) will release the Minutes of the July Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on Wednesday. The document should allow investors to assess the extent of the hawkish bias within the central bank after a meeting marked by three dissen
2026.08.191324
Gold Flies, USD Smashed on Increased Treasury BuybacksScott Bessent has a wide and storied career in financial markets, and his experience with macro and currency is top-notch. He was, after all, part of the Quantum team along with George Soros that broke the Bank of England now more than 30 years ago. His role today, however, is on
2026.08.191325
Trump pauses 50% Canada tariffs, says the two sides have a dealPresident Donald Trump late Tuesday postponed his threat of a 50% tariff on a wide range of Canadian goods that was set to take effect at midnight and would have affected roughly $20 billion worth of imports. “We’ve come to a deal with Canada,” Trump told reporters Wednesday morn
2026.08.191326
US Treasury ups its buying of long-dated TreasuriesHot off the wires, the US Treasury has decided to double the buybacks in the 10yr to 20yr and 20yr to 30yr maturity ranges, from US$2bn to UD$4bn. That brings it in line with the size of buybacks done in shorter maturity buckets. But doing the same size in longer maturities has a
2026.08.191327
US dollar dominance: Dissatisfaction without displacementPredictions of the demise of the dollar have become a recurring feature of the international monetary debate. Every geopolitical crisis, every discussion of sanctions and every sign of China’s economic rise has produced a new wave of forecasts announcing the end of dollar dominan
2026.08.191328
How to Read the 10-Year Treasury Yield ChartFew charts influence global markets as quietly and as widely as the 10-Year Treasury yield chart. This particular chart locates behind everything from home loan pricing to how expensive a technology stock looks. Yet many traders glance at it, see a line moving, and move on. This
2026.08.191329
EIA: US crude inventories up by 4.4M barrelsCommercial crude oil inventories in the United States, excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), rose by 4.4 million barrels to 428.8 million barrels in the week ending August 14, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) stated in its report released on Wednesd
2026.08.191330
UAE Halts All Trade, Commercial, and Financial Transactions With Iran Until Further NoticeThe United Arab Emirates announced on Tuesday that it has halted all trade, commercial exchanges, and financial transactions with the Islamic Republic of Iran until further notice, in a sweeping economic rupture that marks one of the most significant bilateral economic decisions
2026.08.191331
US Treasury announces upscaled buyback operation for longer-term debt, sending yields lowerThe Treasury Department on Wednesday said it will more than double the size of its government debt repurchases, sending yields sharply lower. With fixed income markets under pressure and yields surging to levels not seen in nearly 20 years, the announcement targets a sensitive pa
2026.08.191332
US Treasury Announces Increased Sizes of Nominal Long-EndThe U.S. Department of the Treasury is increasing, by at least double, the size of liquidity support buyback operations for longer-dated nominal coupon securities (the 10-year to 20-year sector and the 20-year to 30-year sector). The current maximum size of $2 billion per operati
2026.08.19