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By Robin Marshall, director, fixed income research G7 sovereign bond yields fell sharply in Q1, to all-time lows, as fixed income markets moved much faster than equity markets to discount a major economic shock, and possible recession, from the coronavirus contagion. Since early-March, how...

Part 1 While I'm going to pass along my thoughts to you, I want to emphasize that I wasn't, and still am not, able to anticipate the most important things happening in the markets because of the extremely rare nature of the circumstances. While what I don't know is much greater than what I k...

By Francis A. Scotland Investors are in full panic mode as COVID-19 morphs into an official global pandemic. The Dow-Jones Industrial Average went from a 52-week high to a 52-week low in 10 days, the fastest reversal ever recorded. The scale of volatility registering across markets refle...

Overview A new phase of the market turmoil is at hand. Bonds are no longer proving to be the safe haven for investors fleeing stocks. The tremendous fiscal and monetary efforts, with more likely to come, have sparked a dramatic rise in yields. Meanwhile, equities are getting crushed again. S...

By Kristina Hooper , Chief Global Market Strategist; Brian Levitt , Global Market Strategist, North America Weekly Market Compass: Healthcare, monetary, and fiscal policy will all play critical roles in combating this crisis The coronavirus pandemic is spreading in Europe, th...

In the face of the most serious global health crisis in more than a century, fiscal and monetary policymakers around the world will very likely have to pull out all the stops in an effort to prevent what currently looks like an inevitable recession from turning into a depression, and to stop f...

By Philip Lawlor, managing director, Global Markets Research The coronavirus outbreak and subsequent market panic has turned investors into Donald Rumsfelds - attempting to price the "known unknowns". A few weeks ago - even as news of coronavirus spread - equity investors were celebratin...

As forecast last week, the spread of COVID-19 has generated severe financial market volatility, which was substantially worsened by the breakdown in production discipline within the global energy market, reflecting the stand-off between Russia and Saudi Arabia. This has triggered further sev...

Anyone who is knowledgeable and plain-speaking will tell you that the negative economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak will probably be big, that monetary policy will be of little use to counteract it, and that co-ordination between political leaders and central bankers is both essential a...

When the World Health Organization announced on February 24th that it was time to prepare for a global pandemic, the stock market plummeted. Over the following week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by more than 3,500 points or over 10%. In an attempt to contain the damage, on March ...