iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEF)

In this video, Ira Epstein reviews the activity in the Financial Markets after the day that just ended, Wednesday, April 16.

The market is yet to fully grasp what is ahead over the next 15 years.

In this video, Ira Epstein reviews the activity in the Financial Markets after the day that just ended, Tuesday, April 15.

The fireworks seem to be over, for now at least. There are still some underlying issues in the market, some uncertainty.

Stocks were higher, lower, and higher, and they faded towards the day’s end, trading within a fairly wide range throughout the day.

Spreads between US Treasury’s and investment grade corporate bonds have widened significantly.

The U.S. Treasury market will be closely watched this week as investors consider if the risk premium for the world’s “safe asset” is in the process of resetting high.

The crisis that would unfold would make 2008 look like a picnic.

Futures traders navigate minefield of new tariffs causing shockwaves in markets. Volatility creates opportunities in energy, metals and equities.

One week of trading doesn’t change decades of precedent for the world’s primary “safe” asset, but reports that the global marketplace is rethinking risk for US government bonds is deeply unsettling for several reasons.

The stock market rallied last week, with the S&P 500 up nearly 6%, spurred on by the suspension of some of the tariffs imposed on April 2nd.

Two warnings as loud as ever that US also feels (short-term?) pain from the tariff war - yields rise, USD falls, gold is rocketing up, BTC decoupling from Nasdaq.

If a genuine unwinding gets underway, there is a long way to go on the downside. But it is too soon to declare that. Yes, volatility bulls were unable to cling on to the weekly highs, but there are several layers of defendable support underneath.

The U.S. stock market has been on a roller coaster ride since Donald Trump took office, with incredible volatility as U.S. reciprocal import tariffs were imposed and then scaled back.

In this week's video, we'll review the latest charts and data to help us answer the question, did stocks just make a major low?

In this video, Ira Epstein reviews the activity in the Financial Markets after the day that just ended, Friday, April 11.

The recent correction and all the volatility over the past month are setting the stage for the last phase of the current AI bull market.

Maybe, just maybe, it’s time to stop throwing our critical market-stabilizing toys out of the pram.

The biggest Treasury bond ETFs moved higher, reminding investors why bonds remain a cornerstone of portfolio stability.

The “fair value” for the US 10-year Treasury yield edged higher in March vs. the previous month and is now approaching the 4.0% mark, the highest estimate in 16 years.

The major economic event of the week was not the sharp fall followed by a historic rebound in the markets.

Companies cancelled import orders from high-tariffed countries. Now they want those orders.

In this video, Ira Epstein reviews the activity in the Financial Markets after the day that just ended, Thursday, April 10.

The CPI posted some stellar numbers, but the bond market yawns.

Although Trump paused the tariffs, some analysts worry the damage is already done.