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The long end of the yield curve continued its post-FOMC decline on poor manufacturing reports and new Trump tariffs.
Trump says trade talks with China are on track for September. Tariff hikes are proof they aren’t. Stocks reversed.
The closely watched ISM and Markit PMI both hover near 50. That is the dividing line between growth and contraction.
Barack Obama wasn’t on the debate stage Wednesday night, but he was on everyone’s mind. And for what felt like…
Counting the FF Rate, the yield curve flattened quite a bit but inversions between 3-month and long end widened.