Michael Materasso News
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Bond investors are gaining confidence that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will unwind the central bank’s unprecedented $3.3 trillion balance sheet without sparking a crash similar to 1994, when Alan Greenspan surprised the market by doubling benchmark lending rates in 12 months.
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History is repeating itself in the bond market as investors capitulate on bets that the Federal Reserve’s money-printing efforts will spark faster inflation.
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For all the handwringing over the slowdown in the U.S. economy, the bond market shows there’s less risk of deflation now than before the Federal Reserve’s first two rounds of large-scale debt purchases.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which survived the subprime mortgage crisis by making bets on a housing decline, is raising money for a new fund that will buy home-loan bonds to benefit from an improving real-estate market.
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The Federal Reserve said the economy maintained its expansion in all 12 of its regions as manufacturing, hiring and retail sales showed signs of strength in the face of higher fuel prices. Christina Romer, former head of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers and Michael Materasso of Templeton Investments comment on Bloomberg Television's "Bottom Line." (Source: Bloomberg)
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The highest 10-year Treasury note yields since 2008 are proving too good to pass up for BlackRock Inc. even as Pacific Investment Management Co. says the best is over for bonds.
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The inability of the U.S. government to reduce record debt and deficits is being rewarded in the bond market.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’s $600 billion plan to spark inflation in the U.S. economy is already showing signs of succeeding, if the market for bond options is any indication.
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Timothy F. Geithner, who took over the Treasury Department in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and oversaw the almost doubling of U.S. public debt, has done better for investors than Robert Rubin while falling short of Henry Paulson.
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The collapse in price swings of U.S. government debt to a four-year low shows increasing investor confidence that yields will stay at about record lows amid growing competition for a dwindling supply of the safest assets.
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