DoubleLine Minutes

Rate Cuts Still on Track But Perhaps Not So Aggressive (E178)

DoubleLine Portfolio Managers Jeff Mayberry and Samuel Lau cover a positive Aug. 12-16 week for equities (0:49), fixed income (2:37) and commodities (5:27), supported by tame inflation readings (6:38) for July and surprising strength in retail sales (8:47). The macro ... Read More

A Volatile Week: Much Ado about Not Much? (E177)

DoubleLine Portfolio Manager Jeff Mayberry and Macro Asset Allocation Analyst Mark Kimbrough comment on the whipsaws in stocks, bonds and commodities that by the Aug. 5-9 week’s end left markets little changed. The risk-off selloff that began Friday Aug. 2 ... Read More

Dovish Fed Day Flies Into Sahm Recession Signal on Friday (E176)

DoubleLine Quantitative Analyst Eric Dhall and Macro Asset Allocation Analyst Mark Kimbrough cover a very exciting market week of July 29-Aug. 2, including a very rough Friday for stocks. Eric and Mark review the end-of-week selloff in stocks triggered by ... Read More

Taking “Home Run” GDP with a Grain of Salt (E175)

DoubleLine Portfolio Manager Samuel Lau and Quantitative Analyst Eric Dhall survey the markets’ July 22-26 scoreboard for stocks (0:59), fixed income (3:01) and commodities (4:29) before turning to the week’s macro news (5:54). Macroland produced an unequivocally robust preliminary estimate ... Read More

Lower Markets, But Bear-Beating Beats (E174)

DoubleLine Portfolio Manager Samuel Lau and Quantitative Analyst Eric Dhall begin their review of the July 15-19 market week with returns in the red for stocks (0:52), bonds (2:18) and commodities (4:01). On the macro front (5:36), Eric Dhall ... Read More

Weaker CPI, Conflicting Consumer Signals (E173)

DoubleLine Portfolio Manager Samuel Lau and Macro Asset Allocation Analyst Mark Kimbrough end the week of July 8-12 with a roundup of stock (1:44), bond (4:06) and commodity (6:18) markets. Then they survey the week’s macro news (7:34), including a ... Read More

A Low-Vol Week for Markets and Macro (E172)

DoubleLine Portfolio Manager Jeff Mayberry and Quantitative Analyst Eric Dhall Friday morning review the stock (1:08), bond (3:16) and commodity (5:44) markets for the week ended June 28, 2024. Then they discuss the week’s macro news (7:09), including further evidence ... Read More

Mixed-Bag Market Week; Homing In on One Fed Cut in 2024 (E171)

DoubleLine Portfolio Managers Jeffrey Mayberry and Samuel Lau cover the markets and macro news for the week of June 17-21, with markets closed Wednesday for the Juneteenth federal holiday. The S&P 500 Index was up on the week, boosted by ... Read More

The Fed Has the Same Data as Everybody Else (E170)

DoubleLine Portfolio Managers Jeffrey Mayberry and Sam Lau cover the markets and macro news for the week of June 10-14, impacted as they were by the Topic of the Week: the June Federal Open Market Committee meeting and press conference ... Read More

Awaiting a Wobbly Wednesday (E169)

DoubleLine Portfolio Manager Jeff Mayberry and Macro Asset Allocation Analyst Mark Kimbrough cover the June 3-7 market week for stocks (0:31), on the way warning about naïve extrapolations of stock-split returns; bonds (2:42); and commodities (4:15), with energy diverging from ... Read More