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MMM Episode 114: Sam and Eric Ponder Powell’s Parsing and Positioning on Fed Day

After reviewing the May 1-5 performances of stocks (2:38), fixed income (3:50), commodities (5:41) and the week’s macro news, DoubleLine’s Samuel Lau and Eric Dhall take a dive (13:51) into the May 3 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee ... Read More

MMM Episode 113: 0DTE Stock Options, a Daily VIX and a Mostly Green Month

After reviewing a mostly green market week (and month and year-to-date) of April 24-28, DoubleLine’s Jeffrey Mayberry and Samuel Lau take a look at what a difference a day makes with their Topics of the Week. Jeff and Sam begin ... Read More

MMM Episode 112: Red Week, Recession Metrics and the Overnight Reverse Repo Facility

After reviewing a mostly down market week of April 17-21, except for bank loans, DoubleLine Portfolio Managers Jeffrey Mayberry and Samuel Lau take a look at the Federal Reserve’s Overnight Reverse Repo Facility* at the behest of a listener (11:37), ... Read More

MMM Episode 111: Analyzing Jobless Claims and Fedspeak

Portfolio Managers Jeff Mayberry and Samuel Lau with guest and DoubleLine Macro Asset Allocation Analyst Mark Kimbrough start with a review for week ended April 14 of stocks (including a look at banks) (2:24), fixed income (5:02), commodities (6:27) as ... Read More

MMM Episode 110: A Bonds 101 Primer on Interest Rate Risk

After reviewing equities (3:03), fixed income (3:44), commodities (6:50) and macro news (11:25) for the abbreviated market week ended April 6, Jeff Mayberry and Samuel Lau discuss the basics of interest rate risk (16:23), aka duration, including its impacts on ... Read More

MMM Episode 109: Green Month and Quarter for Markets; Tough Times Ahead for CRE Borrowing

After recapping positive market performance for March and the quarter, DoubleLine’s Jeff Mayberry and Sam Lau turn to the Topic of the Week: how commercial real estate (CRE) lending will be impacted by the recent issues at regional banks (20:36)*. ... Read More

MMM Episode 108: Markets, FOMC Meeting Coverage “Along With a Million Other Things”

After reviewing a March 20-24 market week that brought a little bit of green, DoubleLine’s Jeff Mayberry and Sam Lau recap and review the Federal Open Market Committee’s March meeting as well as Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell’s press conference ... Read More

MMM Episode 107: Timing the Lead Times of the Treasury Yield Curve

After their review of markets (1:08), DoubleLine Portfolio Managers Jeff Mayberry and Samuel Lau discuss a seeming disconnect (6:49) between falling bond yields and rising stocks amid market-roiling bank news the week of March 13-17. In their review of the ... Read More

MMM Episode 106: March Madness Shakes Up a Couple Banks

Jeff Mayberry and Samuel Lau survey the March 6-10 week’s losses in stocks (2:01), risky credit (5:03) and commodities (5:26) and rallies in high-grade fixed income, as well as the week’s macro news (6:30). Then in the wake of two ... Read More

MMM Episode 105: What January Giveth, February Taketh

DoubleLine Portfolio Manager Jeff Mayberry and guest host Quantitative Analyst Eric Dhall March 3, 2023, examine the month of February, which reversed the January gains for stocks (2:17) and for bonds (4:35). Seeing a possible silver lining, Eric Dhall notes ... Read More