DoubleLine Minutes

FOMC Fedspeak: Hawkish or Dovish? (E158)

For the market week ended March 22, 2024, DoubleLine’s Samuel Lau and Mark Kimbrough recap a mostly positive week for equities (2:39) and fixed income (4:03) while commodities dipped (6:43). For the Topic of the Week (13:20), Sam and Mark ... Read More

Stickier Inflation, Higher Yields, Lower Rate-Cut Expectations (E157)

For the week ended March 15, 2024, DoubleLine Portfolio Managers Jeff Mayberry and Samuel Lau survey the equities (1:17), fixed income (3:20) and commodities (5:44) markets. Then they dive into the week’s heavy macro news schedule (8:10), including CPI, PPI ... Read More

Jeff and Sam Demystify Divergent Labor Surveys (E156)

DoubleLine Portfolio Managers Jeff Mayberry and Samuel Lau cover a negative week ended March 8 for the S&P 500 (0:48), contrasting with a positive week for that index’s equal-weighted cousin; a positive week (3:16) for all major fixed income sectors; ... Read More

Using Fed Funds Probabilities – with a Grain of Salt (E155)

Portfolio Manager Jeff Mayberry and Quantitative Analyst Eric Dhall review markets for February (0:47) and the week ended March 1, 2024 (3:31) as well as the week’s macro news (7:00) and Fedspeak (16:51). For their Topic of the Week (19:36), ... Read More

Moment of Capitulation on the LEI (E154)

After covering the markets for the holiday-shortened week of Feb. 20-24, mostly positive for stocks (00:18) and bonds (1:52) and mostly negative for commodities (3:30), DoubleLine’s Jeffrey Mayberry and Mark Kimbrough run down a relatively light week of macro news ... Read More

Studying a Market-Moving January CPI and Narrow S&P 500 Leadership (E153)

After covering stock (1:01), bond (4:08) and commodity (7:08) markets for the week ended Feb. 16, 2024, DoubleLine Portfolio Manager Samuel Lau and Quantitative Analyst Eric Dhall dive into the week’s macro news (8:50), including a January CPI report that ... Read More

Federal Debt Spiral and Bond Vigilantes (E152)

DoubleLine’s Jeff Mayberry and Eric Dhall review the market week (1:00) ended Feb. 9, 2024, including a new all-time high carrying the S&P 500 to close above 5000 for the first time, yields up across the investment grade segments of ... Read More

Powell Disappoints Stocks, Labor Disappoints Bonds (E151)

After reviewing stock, bond and commodity markets for January (0:54) and for the week ended Feb. 2 (3:07), Jeff Mayberry and Eric Dhall turn to the week’s packed schedule (6:00) of macro news, including Friday’s bond market-displeasing labor market news. ... Read More

Stocks at New Highs, Strong GDP, but Diverging Macro Data (E150)

DoubleLine Portfolio Manager Jeff Mayberry and Quantitative Analyst Eric Dhall recap the markets for the week ended Jan. 26, 2024, noting stocks (0:38) were rather tame notwithstanding new highs on the S&P 500, while fixed income (2:03) was largely flat ... Read More

Retail Sales Report: A Potential Market Mover (E149)

For the holiday-shortened market week of Jan. 16-19, DoubleLine Portfolio Managers Jeffrey Mayberry and Samuel Lau for the Topic of the Week (10:55) look at the Retail Sales Report, an always potentially market-moving print, as retail sales account for about ... Read More