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WEEKLY WEBCAST: Bond Vigilantes Welcome New Fed Chair Warsh With Loud Bronx Cheer

May 20, 2026 1 min read paid

The financial markets expect interest rates to remain higher for longer, notwithstanding President Trump's demands that Kevin Warsh, newly instated as Fed chief, get rates down. But the macroeconomic backdrop no longer supports an easing bias, let alone a rate cut. Paradoxically, Elias and Ed explain, a more hawkish Warsh than investors expect would actually work in Trump's favor via its downward effect on long-term

Ed Yardeni

Don't Freak Out About The Bond Vigilantes Just Yet

May 19, 2026 4 min read paid

The selloff in the US Treasury bond market continued today. The 30-year yield hit a high of 5.19%, its highest level since July 2007. The 10-year yield surged to 4.69%, its highest since January 2025 (chart). Just as unsettling as these levels is how quickly yields have risen over the past few days. We think that happened in response to last week's hotter-than-

Ed Yardeni
Elias Griepentrog

Leaders, Laggards & Breadth In The Current Bull Market

May 18, 2026 3 min read

The current bull market didn't start on March 31, 2026. Yet many commentators have noted that the bull market is at risk because it has been so narrow since then. The bull market actually started on October 12, 2022. Since then, most market segments have delivered solid double-digit gains. The problem is that several large-cap technology companies have delivered triple-digit gains, thereby making the double-

Ed Yardeni

MARKET CALL: Time for A Break Or a Brake?

May 17, 2026 5 min read paid

The S&P 500 sold off by 1.2% on Friday after hitting a record high of 7501.24 on Thursday. We are sticking with our 8250 year-end target for the S&P 500 (chart). However, the index might have peaked for a while. That's because bond yields spiked on Friday, which just happened to be Kevin Warsh's first day at the office

Ed Yardeni
Toby Hearst

ECONOMIC WEEK AHEAD: May 18-22

May 17, 2026 4 min read

On Friday, the S&P 500 fell 1.2% from its record high of 7501.24 on Thursday. A run of hot inflation data and a spike in bond yields did the damage on Friday. April headline CPI hit 3.8% y/y, the highest since May 2023, while core CPI was 2.8%. The big shocker was last Wednesday's April PPI for final demand, which rose

Ed Yardeni
Toby Hearst

COMMUNICATION SERVICES: Highly Concentrated With GOOGLE & META

May 16, 2026 3 min read

We continue to recommend a market-weight position in S&P 500 Communication Services, alongside our market-weight call on Information Technology, which we reiterated on April 25. The sector is a lopsided barbell. Alphabet and Meta together are the only two components of the sector's Interactive Media Services industry. Together, they account for almost 80% of the industry's market capitalization and 69% of its

Ed Yardeni
Toby Hearst

Another Day, Another Step Closer to a Tightening Bias

May 15, 2026 4 min read paid

Two important psychological levels are being tested in the US Treasury market right now. The 2-year yield is trading just above 4.00% this evening, May 14 (chart). That's 25bps above the current federal funds rate (FFR) range of 3.50%-3.75%. That implies investors believe the Fed may need to raise the FFR by at least 25 bps in the foreseeable future. The 30-year

Ed Yardeni
Elias Griepentrog

From Cuts to Hikes: The Fed's Shifting Calculus

May 13, 2026 5 min read paid

The April FOMC statement contained an easing bias, signaling that the Fed remained likely to cut the federal funds rate (FFR) over the rest of the year. That bias is becoming increasingly difficult to defend. Three voting members on the FOMC (Hammack, Kashkari, and Logan) already dissented against retaining it at the April meeting of the monetary policy committee. Boston Fed President Susan Collins has since added her voice to

Ed Yardeni
Elias Griepentrog

WEEKLY WEBCAST: Sweet Spot For The Labor Market

May 13, 2026 1 min read paid

April’s employment report had lots of good news for the labor market. Ed & Elias discuss some of the news that seemed to be bad but really wasn’t on closer inspection. In their view, the April jobs report amounts to a vote of confidence in the narrative that the labor market is stabilizing and may even be improving without boosting inflation. Meanwhile, retiring Baby Boomers are weighing on

Ed Yardeni

CPI Heats Up But, Unlike 2021-22, Wages Remain Cool

May 12, 2026 4 min read paid

During 2021 and 2022, a wage-price spiral was exacerbated by widespread global supply chain disruptions and a spike in oil prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine (charts). This time, the war in the Middle East has caused oil prices to spike. Some supply chains have been disrupted. But a wage-price spiral is less likely. The labor market is in equilibrium this time (chart). In 2021-22,

Ed Yardeni
Elias Griepentrog

ECONOMIC WEEK AHEAD: May 11-15

May 10, 2026 4 min read

The S&P 500 closed Friday at 7,398.93, another record high. The index is 9.2% above its 200-day moving average. Earnings have done the heavy lifting so far this year. The Q1-2026 earnings reporting season is winding down, with companies representing 1% of the S&P 500’s market cap reporting this week and another 12% the following week. Industry analysts’ consensus Q1-

Ed Yardeni
Toby Hearst

MARKET CALL: Raising Our 2026 S&P 500 Target Range Due To Earnings-Led Meltup

May 10, 2026 5 min read paid

We are raising our year-end S&P 500 target from 7700 to 8250. We've been bullish on earnings but not as bullish as the recent consensus of industry analysts. We've never seen consensus earnings expectations rise so quickly for the current and coming years as they have in recent months. The result has been an earnings-led meltup in the stock market. Our 2026

Ed Yardeni
Toby Hearst
Elias Griepentrog

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