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- Nov 02, 2026
Why Are Bond Yields Falling While the Fed Is Hiking?
Investors fled AI stocks into Treasuries and pulled real yields lower, while oil kept a December hike priced.
MEMBERS - Oct 14, 2026
ZMacro Weekly: September CPI and 5% 10-Year Treasury Yield
Headline CPI runs hot on gasoline; the 10-year’s 5.24% is a long-end problem a soft core print won’t fix.
MEMBERS - Oct 05, 2026
Equity Risk Premium Turns Negative as 10-Year Yield Hits 5.28%
S&P 500 forward earnings yield (5.26%) now trails the 10-year Treasury (5.28%) because rates rose faster than earnings estimates.
MEMBERS - Sep 30, 2026
Why Is Gold Falling? The Iran War, the Fed Hike and the Real-Yield Math Behind Gold's 2026 Selloff
Gold is falling because the Iran war's oil shock pushed the Fed into hiking and lifted the US 10-year real yield to 2.90%, its highest level since 2008.
MEMBERS - Sep 29, 2026
Trump's 5% Treasury Yield Problem: What BofA's US‑China Stock‑Bond Chart Really Shows
China's near-record-low 10-year yield came with two decades of equity underperformance and capital controls that Chinese savers are already working around by buying US tech.
MEMBERS - Sep 27, 2026
The US Bond Crisis | How We Got Here, From the 1951 Treasury-Fed Accord to Bessent's Buybacks
Treasury yields at their highest since 2007 are pricing a contest between the Treasury and the Federal Reserve over who sets the price of long-term American debt, and eighty years of bond market history show how that contest usually ends.
- Sep 24, 2026
10-Year Yield Hits 5%: What It Means For The AI Trade
Candlesticks compress thousands of trades into four prices, and order flow tools recover the buying and selling that the candle leaves out.
- Sep 23, 2026
Macro Weekly | 10-Year Yield Hits 5%: What It Means For The AI Trade
The market has not yet priced in the risks of over-collateralized AI chip loans, credit tightening, and inflation.
MEMBERS - Sep 20, 2026
Strait of Hormuz, Oil Prices and Fed Rate Hikes: This Is Not an Inflation Problem. It Is a War Problem.
The Fed can raise rates, but it cannot reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
- Sep 12, 2026
Fed Is Pricing the Next Hike (or Cycle)
The market spent years waiting for the next cut. Now it is quietly rebuilding the hiking cycle.
- Sep 01, 2026
The Bond Primer 01 | Why Yield Will Tell You Everything
Bonds tell you what money costs, how much liquidity exists, what the market thinks inflation will do, whether governments can refinance themselves, and how aggressively investors are being paid to take duration risk.
- Aug 24, 2026
Macro Weekly | The Dollar Debasement Trade
Ironically, market has priced none of above factors, for now, market only cares about debasement.
MEMBERS - Aug 18, 2026
Weekly Macro | The Fed Faces Three Flashpoints This Week Markets Are Priced for None of Them
FOMC minutes, a Fed governor's board fight, and Warsh's first Jackson Hole keynote land in the same eight days, while the VIX curve prices the outcome as a foregone conclusion.
MEMBERS - Aug 14, 2026
The Bad Transparency: How the Fed Is Becoming Trump’s Fed
WARSH TOOK AWAY THE FED’S MAP. THERE IS NO FORWARD GUIDANCE NOR SOFT IMPLICIT TARGET.
- Aug 04, 2026
Bessent Publicly Orders the Fed to Bail Out the Yen — and Leaves Warsh No Quiet Way Out
He didn't ask at their usual Tuesday breakfast. He asked on X, in front of markets, naming the Fed facility he wants enlarged. Warsh now has six weeks to answer, and every option is a public one.
MEMBERS - Jul 28, 2026
MACRO WEEKLY | The Fed Meets Today With Ten Ships in the Strait
ZMACRO JULY 28, 2026 Oil · Shipping · Monetary Policy The Fed Meets Today With Ten Ships in the Strait Hormuz traffic is down 95%. War-risk premiums have gone up forty-fold. Crude round-tripped a hundred dollars in two s
MEMBERS - Jul 24, 2026
THE YIELD MAGIC 01 HOW THE CENTRAL BANK ACTUALLY MOVES RATES
The Fed does not set interest rates. It sets a corridor, then pays banks to sit inside it.
MEMBERS - Jun 10, 2026
Japan Cannot Buy Yield: The Ministry of Finance Against the Carry Trade Machine
Tokyo has deployed a record $73 billion defending the yen. USDJPY held near 160. That is not a failure of will. It is proof that intervention is a liquidity event, and the carry trade is a structural one — and the two instruments exist in entirely different dimensions of force.
MEMBERS - Jun 06, 2026
MACRO RESET BEGINS AT THE STRAIT: HORMUZ CLOSURE, INFLATION SHOCK, FED PIVOT
ZTrader.AI Research · Macro Intelligence · June 6, 2026 MACRO RESET BEGINS AT THE STRAIT Hormuz Closure · Inflation Shock · Fed Pivo
- May 28, 2026
FED'S Reaction Function Has Broken
The Fed has not lost credibility on its inflation target. It has lost something more expensive — the predictability of how it responds to data. That is the price the market is now beginning to charge.
- Apr 25, 2026
The Fed Is Split, But Oil Is the Real Voter
The Fed Is Split, But Oil Is the Real Voter | Premium Macro Note The market is still asking the wrong question.
MEMBERS - Apr 19, 2026
美联储开始失去定价锚：传导链正在失效
美联储信用危机：锚链正在断裂 ZTrader // 2026年4月18日 核心论点 美联储面对的不是政策两难，而是一个结构性陷阱——每一条政策路径都会产生该机构本应阻止的结果。这不是难以权衡的取舍，是功能性失效。 一、三向冲击同时激活 2026年的问题在于，冲击不是顺序到来的，而是同时发生，并且相互放大。
MEMBERS - Apr 03, 2026
从“降息交易”切回“战争通胀交易”
Tactical Strategy Sheet 2026年4月3日｜从“降息交易”切回“战争通胀交易” 核心判断 昨夜市场不是单纯在交易地缘政治 headline，而是在重定价一个更麻烦的组合：油价冲击 + 通胀回摆 + 降息预期后撤 + 增长预期变脆。4月2日美股盘中一度明显走弱，但尾盘收回大部分跌幅，标普仅小涨0.1%，纳指涨0.2%，道指跌0.1%。
MEMBERS - Mar 29, 2026
3月美联储深度月报
ZTrader.AI Research · 宏观月报 美联储 · 美债 · 通胀 全球央行 深度月报 覆盖2026年2–3月：FOMC 3月18日决议、SEP最新预测、美债收益率体系重构、 通胀数据全景、Kevin Warsh权力交接冲击，以及ECB/BOE/BOJ政策态势全盘扫描。 伊朗战争如何重写2026年央行政策路径。 日期 2026.03.28 覆盖
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