Seat Belts Fastened; a Hard Landing Seems Likely Given the long holiday weekend and travel plans this week, HAI will merely offer weekly prices and a [...]

  [Reuters] Bank deposits edge up after record outflows, Fed data shows [Reuters] Wall St Week Ahead US inflation data to test market’s bets [...]

April 7 – Bloomberg (Alexandre Tanzi): “US bank lending contracted by the most on record in the last two weeks of March, indicating a substantial [...]

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Treasuries Slide, US Futures Erase Losses on Jobs : Markets Wrap [CNBC] Job growth totals 236,000 in March, near expectations as [...]

  [Yahoo/Bloomberg] US Yields Extend Slide on Worries Over Economy: Markets Wrap [Reuters] World stocks dither, bonds steady as recession [...]

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Slide Amid Worries Over Inflation, Growth: Markets Wrap [Reuters] Gold hovers near 2020 record highs on softer dollar, weak [...]

  [Reuters] Stocks Advance as Concerns Over Rate Hikes Recede: Markets Wrap [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Extends Rally After OPEC+ Takes Aim at Short [...]

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Treasuries Fall as OPEC+ Disrupts Fed-Pivot Wagers: Markets Wrap [Reuters] Oil prices, oil stocks surge on OPEC+ move [...]

  [Reuters] UBS may cut up to a third of jobs after Credit Suisse takeover, Tages-Anzeiger reports [Reuters] China’s central bank calls [...]

Return-Free Risk vs. the Economic Truth With the final March tally now in the books, the S&P 500 was up 3.51%, the 10-year US Treasury note [...]

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] US Bank Deposits and Lending Both Dropped Last Week Amid Turmoil [Reuters] Hedge funds retrench after getting pummeled during wild [...]

A quarter that began with The Big Squeeze – only to be interrupted by a banking crisis and intense policy response – concluded with a [...]