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Treasury is issuing mostly short-term bills in order to avoid pushing up 10- and 30-year yields. There is some issuance of 3- and 10-year notes this week, probably to be settled in two weeks. The flood of t-bills has been pushing up short-term interest rates faster than the Fed. The other thing about the different maturities is that the very short-term bills require very little margin to hold, perhaps none at the shortest maturities, which may facilitiate the market to absorb more supply.
There was supposed to be a flood of new debt this fiscal year. We will see in the second half of the year whether this pushes up the supply and whether the Treasury has been buying down some of the debt due to receipts of corp tax cut payments or the cash buildup in February.
in any case all that counts is that we have buyers . interest rates will level out like water and seek their own level based on so many things . all we need is a gdp hit and rates will crumble like a cheap suit .
the most successful investors are the ones that don't give a rats butt about predicting all this stuff and reacting .
my daughter in-law works for one of the most famous hedge fund managers in the world . their predicting has been for crap. they closed one of their largest funds and gave investors back their money after repeated attempts to out guess things . the last 15 years my record blew theirs away .
I never understand the focus on what other people will do, should do, or any of that. Who cares what someone else decides when it comes to their investments? There is plenty of information available to assist all kinds of investors from the occasional investor up to the swing and day trader types.
If someone wants to merely dip their toes into a market, so what? Or if someone else wants to go all-in and ride the waves, again so what? I don't see why it matters.
you can look at it any way you want but if you are expressing it to others here then it becomes a meaningless statement when not used in the standardized format everyone here talks in terms of . saying you are 100% equities turns you in to a very aggressive investor by any of the yardsticks we all use here and nothing could be farther from the case , you are ultra conservative based on what you expressed to us .
it makes as little sense to us as having a million bucks and buying one stock for 2000 bucks and calling it 100% equities . it just loses all context of how things are judged here . sure his maximum dollars he wants to allocate to stocks are 2k and since he put all 2k in stock he is saying he is 100% equities but that would a pretty silly way to express it to others .
you may as well not even express your allocation to us if it is in any other format as it is meaningless to us as far as what you are doing .
I never understand the focus on what other people will do, should do, or any of that. Who cares what someone else decides when it comes to their investments? There is plenty of information available to assist all kinds of investors from the occasional investor up to the swing and day trader types.
If someone wants to merely dip their toes into a market, so what? Or if someone else wants to go all-in and ride the waves, again so what? I don't see why it matters.
I agree. It's absurd to tell someone else the way you do things/view things is the only way. We haven't accumulated the level of assets we have by listening and following advice from people like this.
I never understand the focus on what other people will do, should do, or any of that. Who cares what someone else decides when it comes to their investments? There is plenty of information available to assist all kinds of investors from the occasional investor up to the swing and day trader types.
If someone wants to merely dip their toes into a market, so what? Or if someone else wants to go all-in and ride the waves, again so what? I don't see why it matters.
it isn't a question of what they should do . it is only a question of how the information they want us to have is presented to us .if you are going to bother giving us details on allocation than it should be in a format we all understand , not some particular way you care to view it that means nothing to us
having but a small part of one's invest able assets in equities but calling it 100% equities would never be the way anyone else here would present it nor would it mean anything to us .
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it isn't a question of what they should do . it is only a question of how the information they want us to have is presented to us .if you are going to bother giving us details on allocation than it should be in a format we all understand , not some particular way you care to view it that means nothing to us
having but a small part of one's invest able assets in equities but calling it 100% equities would never be the way anyone else here would present it nor would it mean anything to us .
You have repeatedly asked for details, regarding our portfolio allocation %s, which for the most part, I have not provided. I REPEAT: it is absolutely absurd for you to think that your way is the only way.
no i am not asking for details . i am only saying if you are going to tell us your planned allocation which you did ,stating it the way you did is meaningless to us . you are not 100% equities by any yardstick other than your own . so why bother expressing that to us , unless it is expressed in the traditional manner which is a percentage of total invest able assets why bring it up , it has no meaning for any of us here expressed that way .
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