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With rates rising in the U.S., investors should consider looking abroad for bond exposure.

The consumer price index rose the most since 1982, yet the 10-year rate slipped.

Prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh is scheduled for a virtual hearing Monday as a judge could consider lowering the $7 million bond she set last month

\ A wage-price spiral is not in the data yet but it is worth watching for Anchored longer term inflation expectations also make me less worried than some others are about a wage-price spiral Says she''s supportive of tapering bond buying Could imagine adjusting the balance

Here''s What The Fed''s Quantitative Tightening Will Look Like As we noted last night , the December FOMC meeting minutes included a lengthy discussion of the timing and speed of Fed balance sheet shrinkage (quantitative tightening or "QT"), an unexpected twist which sent risk assets and Treasurys tumbling. The broad message appears to be that QT will start sooner than it did in the previous tightening cycle, and proceed at a faster pace although as the Fed''s Bullard (who is a voting member this year) observed, the runoff could be passive, i.e., not involve actual selling but merely be the result of maturing securities held by the Fed. In any case, in a note from BofA economist Aditya Bhave, he argues that the Feds balance sheet policy will remain accommodative for the next several quarters for several reasons: The Fed has more than doubled its balance sheet during the pandemic. Therefore it will have to reinvest a larger quantity of maturing Treasuries even while it is shrinking its balance sheet.

Outgoing Fed Vice Chair Quietly Covered Up Suspicious Trades Made During March 2020 Market Rout Several months have passed since FOMC members Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren and Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan abandoned their posts following a trading scandal that raised questions about senior Fed officials. Now, Richard Clarida, who is already on his way out the door at the Fed to make room for Biden appointee Lael Brainard, has become the latest senior Fed official to find his way into the ethics officials'' rifle sights. Because according to the NYT , Bloomberg and a handful of other reports, Clarida sold at least $1M of shares in a US-traded stock fund in February 2020 before buying a similar amount of the same fund a few days later, on the eve of a major Fed policy announcement that would trigger an 18-month-plus torrid rally in stocks, bonds and other securities. Notably, while Clarida''s purchase was previously disclosed and reported by Bloomberg News back in October, the initial sale of the fund shares wasn''t disclosed until last month, when an amended financial-disclosure form was finally filed with the government.

The Federal Reserve is ready to cut back its holdings of more than $8 trillion of bonds, with a readout of the U.S. central bank''s meeting last month suggesting that process could get underway later this year.

Financials: March Bonds are currently 14 lower at 15530. 10 Year Notes 6.5 lower at 12820.5 and 5 Year Notes 4.75 lower at 11931.00. Since my last

The FOMC Meeting Minutes release yesterday revealed members using language on inflation and the Feds balance sheet which suggest a more hawkish tilt to its monetary policy, shifting price movements in financial markets.

Futures signaled further pain for tech stocks after Wednesdays rout, adding to the nearly $1 trillion in value wiped out of the Nasdaq Composite Index this week already as a surge in U.S. bond yields spook investors.

As rates rise, holding volatile investments that produce little income becomes less attractive compared with government bonds

Last year was a record year for ETFs, with net inflows of $910 billion into U.S.-listed ETFs, and it set a benchmark that will be hard to beat in 2022. Equity ETFs brought in the lion's share of flows

A HUGE new movie attraction, based where James Bond, Marvel and Star Wars were filmed, has been confirmed for Pinewood Studios in the UK. The £500m park next to the site where the hit movies were filmed is set to open in 2024 and will create 3,500 jobs. The 750,000 sqft park, in []

Bonded Finance (CURRENCY:BOND) traded 3.9% higher against the US dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 21:00 PM Eastern on December 23rd. During the last week, Bonded Finance has traded 4.6% higher against the US dollar. Bonded Finance has a total market capitalization of $5.62 million and approximately $177,258.00 worth of Bonded Finance was []

In the spirit of the Yuletide season, Nigeria Flour Mills Plc, maker of Golden Penny Foods, has commenced its 12 Days of Christmas Campaign, tagged: The Golden Penny Christmas. During the campaign, Golden Penny hopes to strengthen the bond between the brand and its consumers by providing people with fun, excitement, opportunities and vitality. According []