If inflation is on the rise, and tapering talk is making headlines, then why are U.S. Treasury yields heading lower? "It's because of all the liquidity in the system," DoubleLine Capital's Jeffrey Gundlach told CNBC. "Banks are so flush with deposits" that it is creating disorder in the broader financial markets. In fact, the New York Fed's overnight reverse repo program has started touching record levels around $1T as excess liquidity overwhelms U.S. money-market funds and a parking space for cash becomes harder to find.
On the greenback: "Ultimately, the size of our deficits - both trade deficit, which has exploded post-pandemic, and the budget deficit, which is, obviously, completely off the charts - suggest that in the intermediate term - I don't really think this year, exactly, but in the intermediate term - the dollar is going to fall pretty substantially," proclaimed the so-called bond king. "That's going to be a very important dynamic, because one of the things that’s helped the bond market, without any doubt, has been foreign buying, with the interest rate differentials having favored hedged U.S. bond positions for foreign bond investors."
Hasn't the dollar gone up over the past month? 'It's a question of what your horizon is. In the short term, the dynamics have been and will continue to be in place for the dollar to be marginally or moderately stronger. In the longer term, I think the dollar [is] doomed."