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Posted by Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist on Mar 18, 2019, in Market & Economic Weekly Market Compass: Instead of attacking central banks, some politicians want to use them as a policy tool The United States has always had a difficult, complicated relation...

By Philip Lawlor, managing director, head of global markets research The "just right" Goldilocks economic backdrop has been a major driver of global equity markets for the past several years. The recent dovish central-bank U-turn and easing trade tensions have fostered hopes that this bene...

In Macro Letter - No 108 - 18-01-2019 - A world of debt - where are the risks? I looked at the increase in debt globally, however, there has been another trend, since 2009, which is worth investigating as we consider from whence the greatest risk to global growth may hail. The BIS global...

Today North American yields are slightly higher as stocks rebound. But one day does not a trend reverse, and overall, the Canadian 10-year Treasury yield has declined (as bond prices have risen) from 2.6% in October to 1.96% on December 31 and 1.75% today. As shown below in my partner Cory V...

When it comes to superheroes there is only one thing that matters: Either you have the ability to save the world and crush all comers via some extraordinary superpower or everyone must believe you do and not challenge it. Yet, as we all know, there comes a time when bluster just won't cut it...

This was going to be the year when the other big central banks joined the Fed in "normalizing" interest rates and reversing the past decade's QE experiment. Instead, the other central banks blinked and went back to aggressive ease, and the Fed is following them . This is a very big deal. Le...

By Erik Knutzen, Chief Investment Officer - Multi-Asset Class For investors, the mature part of this cycle may feel like the rest of the cycle writ large. The MSCI All Country World Index is up some 250% since the financial crisis. But was there ever a cycle in which investors were mor...

The US Fed has led the world in 20 years of progressively more extreme monetary interventions to inflate debt and asset prices at all costs. Each time that US stock markets have dropped more than 10%, central banks have moved to 'ease' volatility with more and longer monetary 'accommodation.' ...

Impact of lower rates, China tax cuts and political progress likely to be evident by mid-2019 Weak incoming data, both in respect of profits forecasts and the global economy, are in sharp contrast to the strong performance of risk assets such as equities and corporate credit during 2019. C...

The global economies are in a synchronous slowdown. Unfortunately, there is not much more that the BOJ, Bank of China, ECB, Fed and all other major monetary bodies can do at this point. Interest rates are low, and we are not suffering from a lack of money or liquidity. While all of this may ...