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Last week, Jeff Desjardins of Visual Capitalist wrote in a post: "While it's true that putting your money on the line is never easy the historical record of the stock market is virtually irrefutable: U.S. markets have consistently performed over long holding periods, even going back to the ...

In Macro Letter - No 108 - 18-01-2019 - A world of debt - where are the risks? I looked at the increase in debt globally, however, there has been another trend, since 2009, which is worth investigating as we consider from whence the greatest risk to global growth may hail. The BIS global...

By Brad Tank, Chief Investment Officer - Fixed Income The ECB's accommodative stance removes one more obstacle from a global soft landing. As my colleagues and I prepare our latest quarterly Fixed Income Investment Outlook , it is worth recalling that our last one, which came off the ...

Thus will end the central banks' bombastic hubris and the public's faith in central banks' godlike powers. Having fixed the liquidity crisis of 2008-09 and kept a perversely unequal "recovery" staggering forward for a decade, central banks now believe there is no crisis they can't defeat:...

What's Really Causing the Gigantic US Trade Deficit? Ultimately, the issue is not China, Germany, Japan or Mexico. The issue is much closer to home. And where are the efforts to tame it headed? (12 minutes): Editor's Note: The summary bullets for this article were chosen by Seeking ...

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them: to die, to sleep no more; and by a sleep, to say we end the heart-ache, and the thousand natur...

By David Q. Tang, Senior Quantitative Analyst - Investment Grade, Yanbo Li, Senior Quantitative Analyst - Investment Grade and Apoorv Tandon, Quantitative Analyst - Investment Grade What is the “term premium”, why is it so low, why might it rise - and what does it mean for...

The sentiment snapshot series is back! For context, in the sentiment snapshot series I look at some of the charts from the weekly survey on Twitter , which asks respondents to indicate whether they are bullish or bearish for primarily technical or fundamental rationale. I also add a few other...

Three events next week will shape the investment climate. The Federal Reserve meets and will update its forecasts and guidance. The British House of Commons may vote for a third time on the Withdrawal Bill before Prime Minister May heads to the EU Summit to ask for an extension of the UK leavi...

Market Review & Recap Over the last couple of weeks, we discussed the "wild swings " in the market in terms of price movements from overbought, to oversold, and now back again. The quote below is from two week's ago but is apropos again this week. "Despite the underlying economi...