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In early May we gathered our global team of investment professionals in Newport Beach for PIMCO's 38th annual Secular Forum. With input from invited speakers (see Our Process section, below) as well as our Global Advisory Board and other consultants, we zoomed in on several key secular drive...

By Jeffrey Kleintop Over the past 30 years, stock markets around the world have rallied after the Federal Reserve (Fed) hiked interest rates for the last time in the economic cycle. The rallies have varied in length and strength, but eventually break down as the late cycle environment enco...

Beginning around the end of 2006 it was common to hear that the U.S. stock market would keep climbing because the U.S. economy was neither too hot nor too cold; it was just right. This was often called the Goldilocks economy on cable TV in honor of the young girl who wanders into a strange hom...

Markets do not have the best of past records in pricing in major systemic risks to the global economy that later materialized and that then caused substantial market declines. Judging by how sanguine markets currently seem to be about the unusual constellation of major risks facing the world e...

The global financial markets are being held prisoner by rising trade tensions, primarily between the United States and China. While both countries feel, but to differing degrees, that they can weather a trade war, each is focusing on who will dominate the global economy over the next generatio...

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By Jeffrey Kleintop Geopolitical risk has recently returned to the markets in the following five ways: Renewed trade tensions between the U.S. and China and the looming possibility of auto tariffs impacting Europe and Japan. New missile launches by North Korea. The U.S. intensif...

Worldwide PMI surveys indicated that manufacturing once again broadly stagnated in April, with growth of business activity running at its lowest since mid-2016. New order inflows continued at one of the slowest rates since 2012 amid a further decline in worldwide exports. Weak demand, meanwh...

The latest data, released this week by Markit under their PMI headings, show that the global slowdown in the manufacturing sector has entered into its 6th consecutive quarter in the first month of 2Q 2019. In line with this momentum, BRIC economies overall, with exception (for now) of Russia a...

The “middle-income trap” has become a broad designation trying to capture the many cases of developing countries that succeeded in evolving from low- to middle-levels of per capita income, but then appeared to stall, losing momentum along the route toward the higher income leve...