Mike Ryan Quotes


You still have strong demand growth, a very tight labor market and rising inflationary pressures. Those are things that are not generally benign for bonds. - Mike Ryan



You have a lot of supply at a time when the demand is down. - Mike Ryan



Yesterday there were rumors that (OPEC president) Ali Rodriguez was going to push for pretty substantial production increases from OPEC, but what we've heard is that these production increases will be less than what was speculated... Yesterday had crude prices down sharply but they're rebounding today. Inventories are still low and demand, globally, continues to rise. - Mike Ryan



We've been in this trading range between 5.375 and 5.75 (30-year bond yields) for a very long period of time... Then we finally broke out of that and the next target people are setting their sights for is 6 percent. We have a refunding this week, we have an awful lot of corporate supply and we also have next week's FOMC meeting approaching. - Mike Ryan