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Originally published on January 28, 2020 By Alan Bartlett, President, Chief Investment Officer, Templeton Global Equity Group and Antonio (Tony) Docal, CFA, Director of Portfolio Management, Portfolio Manager, Research Analyst, Templeton Global Equity Group Equities saw strong 2019 per...

Originally published January 28, 2020 By Manraj Sekhon, CFA, Chief Investment Officer, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity In addition to the tragic toll on human lives, the coronavirus outbreak in China brings potential economic and market implications for China and beyond. Fr...

By Tobias Adrian, Financial Counsellor and Director of the IMF's Monetary and Capital Markets Department; Fabio Natalucci, Deputy Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department While we have seen some recent volatility, many risky asset markets around the world had a spectacular y...

By Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist Weekly Market Compass: How does today’s situation compare to the 2003 SARS outbreak? The outbreak of novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, and in pockets around the world has garnered significant public concern, and the global fi...

According to analysts and economists who watch these things, Germany's IFO Business Climate Index was expected to continue its rise. Having purportedly bottomed out back in September, like other sentiment indicators, this one had been on the rebound, too, if, though, much less than those other...

Rick Rieder, Russ Brownback and Trevor Slaven contend that eight major market influences are likely to dominate the investment environment in the year ahead and that the proper portfolio mix will be instrumental in delivering a successful outcome. In our industry, we can safely rely on the...

This week, three central banks made interest rate meetings. The Bank of Japan voted to continue with a -0.1% rate applied to the "policy rate balances." The bank will maintain "Yield Curve Control," which means it will buy a sufficient amount of 10-year bonds to keep long-term rates at 0...

By Michael Hasenstab, Ph.D., Chief Investment Officer, Templeton Global Macro; Attila Korpos, Ph.D., Senior Global Macro & Research Analyst, Templeton Global Macro; Calvin Ho, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Director of Research, Templeton Global Macro; Diego Valderrama, ...

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I understand from stock bulls that central banks have got all this under control. That's good, because even India, the world's fastest-growing large economy, has taken its growth rate estimate for the current fiscal year ending March 31 down to 5% - the slowest growth rate since 2009 and compa...