The $25 trillion treasury market under siege: Bond supply surge, fitch ratings downgrade, and BOJ capital repatriation speculation. Wall street unites in view that last week's treasury sell-off was excessive, as 10-year and 30-year yields approach multi-year peaks. $Goldman Sachs (GS.US)$ and $Morgan Stanley (MS.US)$ are recommending clients to purchase 30-year inflation-linked bonds, while $JPMorgan (JPM.US)$ is optimistic ...

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The market has been on a downward trajectory for the past two weeks, with value and defensive stocks performing relatively better than their peers. This is following a massive rally that has produced very nice gains for investors. Are investors taking a little profit after the rally? Or is this selloff just the beginning of more to come?
Feel free to leave a comment about why you think the market has been selling off for the past two weeks...

$Microsoft (MSFT.US)$ founder Bill Gates said rising inflation and interest rates in Western economies would drive the world toward an economic slowdown "eventually."
"I'm afraid the bears on this one have a pretty strong argument that concerns me a lot," Gates said Sunday on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS."
Do you think he's right?
If it's going to happen, what would you do?

Musk's super stock sale is just about done.
He sold another 934,090 shares, or about $1.02 billion worth of his holdings.
He has sold nearly 17 million shares and also exercised options to buy nearly 1.6 million  $Tesla (TSLA.US)$  shares at a strike price of $6.24 per share, granted to him via a 2012 compensation package.
Despite the share sales, the transactions still leave Musk with more Tesla shares than when he started selling.
He now o...