DoubleLine Minutes

MMM Episode 72: A Red First Half for the Record Books

With the June 30 close of 1H2022, Jeff Mayberry and Samuel Lau start (2:21) by looking at the month, quarterly and first-half-of-2022 returns for the stock market. These left the S&P 500 down just under 20% for the first six ... Read More

MMM Episode 71: Summer Doldrums, Reversals and Keeping an Eye on What Powell Is Looking At

DoubleLine’s Jeffrey Mayberry and Samuel Lau run down the reversals during the short market week of June 21-24. Jeff and Sam note the seasonal effect of summer doldrums across the week in which the bulk of market activity occurs right ... Read More

MMM Episode 70: Nowhere to Hide, Fed Baby Steps and Powell Transparency

After a recount of the rough, red run for the market week of June 13-17, DoubleLine’s Jeff Mayberry and Samuel Lau review the June meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) and Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell’s subsequent press ... Read More

MMM Episode 69: Hot, Sticky Inflation; Flattening Treasury Curve; Speculation on Stagflation

In their review (1:49) of the carnage in the equity and bond markets June 6-10, Jeff Mayberry and Samuel Lau zero in (3:50) on “a big compression of the differential” between the yields of the two- and 10-year Treasury notes. ... Read More

MMM Episode 68: Tough Fed in Town, Digital Tulips and Music City Home Prices

DoubleLine’s Jeff Mayberry is once again joined by Eric Dhall, a trader and quantitative analyst on the firm’s Cross Asset team who is subbing for Samuel Lau at the end of the holiday-shortened market week of May 31-June 3. Jeff ... Read More

MMM Episode 67: Improving Sentiment, Curious Bitcoin, Squishy Fedspeak

Surveying the week of May 23-27, Jeff Mayberry and Samuel Lau (2:01) take note of improved investor sentiment in the form of a rally in stocks, allowing the S&P 500 to skirt the -20.00% definition of a bear market. ... Read More

MMM Episode 66: A Narrow Bear Escape, Diversity in Face of Inflation and Consistent Fed Speak

With Samuel Lau on the road, DoubleLine’s Jeff Mayberry is joined on the latest episode of Monday Morning Minutes by Eric Dhall, a trader and quantitative analyst on the firm’s Cross Asset team, to break down a volatile May 16-20 ... Read More

MMM Episode 65: TerraUSD-LUNA Meltdown and Its Broader Implications

After reviewing another wild market week for May 9-13 (2:05) and the April consumer and producer price indexes (8:49), Jeff Mayberry and Samuel Lau examine the bloodbath in the algorithmic stablecoin pair TerraUSD-LUNA (14:15), then ponder the unknowns of ... Read More

MMM Episode 64: A Wild Whipsaw and a Tightening Fed Star the Week of May 2-6

After reviewing Willy Whipsaw’s deviltry in the markets of May 2-6 (1:34) and the week’s macro news (10:16), Jeff Mayberry and Samuel Lau dive (14:03) into the May 4 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, which raised the range ... Read More

MMM Episode 63: Where Are We in the Commodities Cycle?

After reviewing month and year-to-date market returns (1:58) and the April 25-29 week’s macro news (10:25), Jeff Mayberry and Samuel Lau turn to the broad topic of commodities (15:06), including asset class’s diversification benefits relative to stocks and bonds, the ... Read More