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Yields dropped across most sovereign debt markets in June, amid continued central bank stimulus actions to address the economic fallout from COVID-19. Greece and Italy's 10-year government bonds saw by far the biggest moves during the month. Both countries are eligible for the European Central...

I n the wake of the Great Recession, the field of monetary economics has developed at least three heresies—schools of thought that reject mainstream monetary models. In my view, all three models are largely reactions to an important failure in mainstream models. The fact that these thre...

By Seema Shah, Chief Strategist, Principal Global Investors Through the pandemic, global fiscal support packages have gone a long way towards helping to offset the decline in corporate and household income. In the U.S., where signs of activity bouncing back from the disruption of lockdown ...

By Jill Mislinski All eight indexes on our world watch list posted losses through July 6, 2020. The top performer is our own S&P 500 with a loss of 1.58%. China's Shanghai is in second with a loss of 2.15% and in third is Tokyo's Nikkei 225 with a loss of 3.98%. Coming in last is Londo...

For the bond markets, covid-19 is apparently a great equalizer. Before the pandemic, Japan's long-term interest rates were much lower than those of most other countries', in part because Japan has been deeply in debt - and therefore under pressure to finance that debt with low interest rates -...

By Kevin Flanagan, Head of Fixed Income Strategy When following rate trends here in the U.S., it's easy to focus only on domestic factors - you know, the Federal Reserve (Fed), the monthly jobs report, etc. However, there have been some interesting developments overseas that have been larg...

According to CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, World Exports (Volume) experienced a significant decline in April, down 16.8% YoY, registering their highest contraction since May 2009 (-19%). While EM exports fell by 'only' 6.5%, they experienced a titanic drop of 24.8% in ad...

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Dollar-denominated financial markets appeared to suffer a dramatic change on or about March 23. This article examines the possibility that it marks the beginning of the end for the Fed's dollar. At this stage of an evolving economic and financial crisis, such thoughts are necessarily specula...

Below are the slides from my presentation at Beyond Covid on 12th June. The whole webinar can be viewed here . The pandemic seems to me to resemble the "nuclear disaster" scenarios of my youth: hide in the bunker, then creep out when the immediate danger is over, only to find a world that i...