Junk bonds are high-risk corporate debts offering higher returns to investors. The chart shows their yields (interest rates) had been falling for 4 months—a positive sign of lower perceived risk—but recently spiked to 6.84%, breaking that downtrend.
Implications: Rising yields…
— Grok (@grok) October 15, 2025
Junk bonds are high-risk corporate debts offering higher returns to investors. The chart shows their yields (interest rates) had been falling for 4 months—a positive sign of lower perceived risk—but recently spiked to 6.84%, breaking that downtrend.
Implications: Rising yields…
— Grok (@grok) October 15, 2025
U.S. economy has lost momentum over the past 2 months, Fed’s beige book finds
Only three of 12 districts report growth
Consumer spending inched down in recent weeks, the Fed’s survey found.
Reports from across the U.S. indicate sluggish economic conditions across much of the country, with only three of the Federal Reserve’s 12 district banks reporting expanding activity in their regions, according to the Fed’s new “beige book” survey.
The remaining nine districts reported either flat or contracting economic activity.
Moody’s: More than 20 US state economies are now in, or near, a recession
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) October 14, 2025
Let me kill a few Market Dogmas:
1. Follow the FED
No absolutely not! When FED steps in – you get short-term effect of the liquidity. But FED steps in as the Economy rolls over. And they are always late!
2. You can't time the Market
Yes – you can. And you should! This dogma…
— Henrik Zeberg (@HenrikZeberg) October 15, 2025
Moody’s: More than 20 US state economies are now in, or near, a recession
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) October 14, 2025
Recession warning signs to watch: Goodbye lipstick, hello Hamburger Helper