FLGV News and Press, Franklin Liberty U.S. Treasury Bond From 02/03/21

Central banks, the Federal Reserve in particular, have really pivoted its policy approach to let inflation, if it were to start to pick up, to let it run a little bit hotter than maybe they have in prior cycles. Each energy cycle, I think, has played a part in influencing how investor...

Since August, Treasury yields have roughly doubled, albeit from an all-time low. Less positive is the shift in stock-bond correlations. Beta measures the extent an asset moves relative to a broad stock index and is a function of two components: the correlation and the ratio of vol...

2021 will be a challenging year for bond investors, as we are starting off with low interest rates and rising inflation, explains Marvin Appel of Signalert Asset Management. As a result, I believe the most productive strategy for 2021 will be to search for higher yields in the form of...

Stocks in emerging markets continued to lead the major asset classes in January as the top monthly performer. Emerging markets shares have been up for four straight months, pushing this slice of the world's equities to a wide one-year lead of nearly 28%. US stocks are posting the ...

Just as individuals used social media platforms to organize protests and riots across the country, traders used websites like "Reddit" to organize a successful short-squeeze on Wall Street hedge funds. While Robinhood, and other brokers, took a lot of heat for restricting trading in s...

Social media orchestrating a bloody short squeeze assault upon the hedge funds. The first month of the new year begins with chaos in our nation's Capital and ends with market mania chaos - both manifestations of acute monetary disorder. What we're witnessing poses a risk to capitalism...

The economy will likely continue struggling for the next month or two. With vaccinations accelerating and households looking cash rich, a reopening of the economy could see growth reach multi-decade highs. James Knightley, Chief International Economist at ING takes a look at the i...

As we head into 2021, there is a large consensus that the massive monetary interventions in 2020 will lead to an explosion of economic growth, inflation, and higher interest rates. We suspect that the outcome of more debt-driven spending will lead to a disappointment in growth and dis...

However, with monetary policy seemingly on autopilot, fixed income investors have instead placed their focus on fiscal policy. It is on the QE point that the Fed will have some potential policy flexibility. In other words, as we highlighted in our pre-election outlook piece, there...

U.S. Fed keeps rates near zero. Colbourne: Fed unlikely to address the recent retail stock frenzy. Colbourne: Fed likely to to be very accommodating over a long period of time. For further details see: Fed Holds On Rates, But Warns Economic Growth Is Slowing