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Increasingly some of the more prominent sellside analysts appear to be picking and choosing ideas from their competitors. Earlier, it was JPM echoing Goldman's reco when it cut its 10Y yield forecast. Now, in a note previewing the outcome of this week's OPEC meeting and proposing a way forward for OPEC, Goldman's Damien Couravlin adopted the "backwardation" idea presented last week by Morgan Stanley's Francisco Blanch.

Just one day after Goldman reluctantly cut its 2017 year end forecast on the 10Y yield last Friday from 3.00% to 2.75%, "reflecting some added uncertainty on the US macro outlook" while conceded that "bond bears", i.e., those clients who have listened to it, "have had a difficult 2017" it was JPMorgan's turn, and over the weekend JPM announced it was adjusting its US rate forecast "significantly lower", slashing its year end 10Y yield target to 2.75% from 3%, reflecting “a weaker outlook on core inflation and reduced expectations around tax reform and infra

Authjored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

Authored by Adam Johnson via FAIR.org (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting),

After a series of friendly gestures by President Donald Trump toward Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte and Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi over the past few months, US media have recoiled with disgust at the open embrace of governments that ostensibly had heretofore been beyond the pale.

Authored by Wayne Madsen via The Strategic Culture Foundation,