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By Collin Martin As expected, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) - the Federal Reserve's policymaking arm - on Wednesday maintained the 2.25-2.5% target range for the Federal Funds rate. 1 The decision was unanimous. While the main policy rate was left unchanged, the committee lower...

By Nick Maroutsos Nick Maroutsos, Co-Head of Global Bonds, discusses the Federal Reserve's decision Wednesday to keep rates steady and why the central bank's next move could be a rate cut. Wednesday the Federal Reserve (Fed) reiterated its "patient" approach toward monetary policy, ann...

Editor's note: This article was originally published on April 30 by Menzie Chinn here . One argument against the secular stagnation thesis is that the risk-adjusted real rate is not particularly low. I’m dubious. In Figure 1, I depict the real ten-year Treasury yield, adju...

Originally published May 1, 2019 As part of Merk's in-house research we regularly evaluate a consistent set of charts covering the economy, equities, fixed income, commodities and currencies. The aim is to keep our eyes open and to look through the noise of the headlines, avoiding the dist...

The Federal Reserve keeps interest rates unchanged and signals no further rate hikes. Anthony Okolie talks with Derek Burleton, Deputy Chief Economist, TD Bank Group Read more ...

By Kevin Flanagan Certainly, no one can dispute that the shift in the Federal Reserve's (Fed) monetary policy outlook has been the most noteworthy development that has occurred in the money and bond markets thus far in 2019. The problem is that this shift has only created an extra layer of...

Overview: The May Day holiday has shut most markets in Asia and Europe, making for subdued market action. Equity markets that are open, like Australia and the UK, advanced and US shares are trading higher helped by Apple's (AAPL) upbeat forecasts and sales that beat expectations. Indeed, the...

Why Did Rates Fall On The "Strong" GDP Print? On Friday, the BEA released the Q1 GDP figures which widely beat consensus expectations, rising 3.2% quarter over quarter (QoQ). Under the headline number revealed much weaker results than the top-line "beat" suggested which is why nominal int...

By SchiffGold Peter Schiff recently appeared on RT to talk about rising oil prices, how they relate to inflation and what it could mean for the US economy. President Trump has been pushing to limit Iranian oil exports as much as possible. Peter said the president needs to get his priorit...

At the end of the second quarter of 2019, the US economy will have completed ten years of growth, the longest period of economic expansion since the end of the Second World War. It appears as if the annual compound rate of growth will come out around 2.3 percent. As post-World War II busines...