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The news coming out of the bond market at the end of the week was the inversion of the yield curve. The concern: every time the yield curve has been inverted in modern times, the US economy has always gone into a recession. Let me just issue a word of caution here. We are in a new era. T...

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To my best knowledge and years of experience in the markets, the Friday's unnerved session is just that, an anxious day after what seems to be a U-turn by the Fed. I am an old-school macro-guy. That means that when the Fed signalizes a dovish stance, I see it as a positive for stocks. If last ...

The FOMC voted this week not to raise its target interest rate and signaled no additional hikes are planned for this year conditional on the outlook. This is a big change from last fall when the FOMC was talking up multiple rate hikes and dismissing concerns about the flattening yield curve...

This week's FOMC meeting will be debated for years - perhaps even decades. The Fed essentially pre-committed to no rate hike in 2019. The committee downgraded both its growth and inflation forecasts. Having all at once turned of little consequence, we can now dismiss the 3.8% unemployment rate...

By Jenna Barnard, CFA Jenna Barnard, Co-Head of Strategic Fixed Income, shares her latest views on the bond market, explaining what she sees as possibly the early innings for an intermediate, cyclical, sovereign bond bull market. Transcript Jenna Barnard : It is Thursday, the 14th of ...

Market Review & Recap The volatility in the markets continued this week with another big whipsaw for investors following the Fed meeting. On Thursday, the S&P soared after the Fed announced they would not be hiking rates this year and ending their balance sheet reduction by Septemb...

By OpenMarkets Weak data out of Germany and a dovish Fed is causing some concern among market participants, says Jack Bouroudjian. Meanwhile, the yield curve has inverted. Jack covers the role sovereign debt is playing ahead of what could be an eventful week for the markets. Editor...

We have been saying for some time now that we are living in a VUCA environment categorized by volatility, uncertainty, chaos and ambiguity. The past is most probably not an indicator of the change to come. It is unpredictable. Nothing showed it more than the market reaction on Friday when the ...

On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Chief Investment Strategist Erik Ristuben, and Rob Cittadini, director, Americas institutional, discussed recent Brexit developments as well as the inversion of the U.S. Treasury yield curve. Tough road ahead for UK even as Brexit extensi...