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Germany is a tough one to get around. Argentina falls into a bad recession, you can get by believing that's not particularly unusual or interesting. If its neighbor Brazil becomes shaky, you can still chalk it up to EM volatility. Italy is Europe's perpetual basket case. China's a little more ...

Geopolitical headlines infiltrate news feeds on a daily, if not hourly, basis. The challenge? Separating the signal from the noise - identifying what matters and what's coming next. In the first of our regular series on geopolitics, Tom Donilon, Chairman of the BlackRock Investment Instit...

First, it was Quantitative Easing. Then, it was Quantitative Tightening. Now, we are in Quantitative Hibernation. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get. - The White Rabbit The recent minutes of the FOMC may be summarized by the following: Fed removes reference to further gradual r...

There are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves." Earl Wilson The impact of QE When central banks buy Treasury debt, central bank reserves grow and, when that happens, base money supply increases. Money supply is an important driver ...

The US Federal Reserve turned ´dovish´last week, somewhat surprisingly. Does that mean that emerging markets ((EM)) will cheer? Won't we have other EM currency crashes in 2019, like in Turkey and Argentina last Summer? The last OECD Economic Outlook (November 2018) wrote recently tha...

The latest FOMC statement and press conference certainly gave investors all they wanted to hear when it comes to Federal Reserve “flexibility,” which was a major issue in the 4Q-‘18 sell-off in the stock market. “Patiently awaiting greater clarity,” as Je...

Weekly Market Review: The Fed signals a major change in approach at its January meeting By Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist on Feb 4, 2019, in Market & Economic The biggest American football game of the year was played last night, and for the first three ...

Yesterday, I asked the question, “ Which is Right? The Bond Market or the Stock Market? .” Prices in both markets had been rising over the past month, or two, or three. This is not the usual situation, so it was natural to raise the question about which market is right about ...

By Alasdair Macleod The issuance of debt is normally subject to a contract that it will be repaid at the end of its term, along with the coupon interest. The exception is undated bonds, when only the interest contract must be fulfilled. In practice, governments and many corporations roll o...

Wake up America! It is only massive and unsustainable deficit spending that continues driving our economy forward. This is why the President's fixation on the stock market and not the real economy represented by Main Street does a great disservice to Americans. While Trump may have been correc...