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By Philip Lawlor, Managing Director, Head of Global Markets Research Equity factors made a dramatic U-turn in September, capturing the mercurial and rapidly shifting appraisal of economic prospects across global markets. But we think it's too early to call this a regime change. As the ch...

By Tobias Adrian, Financial Counsellor and Director of the IMF's Monetary and Capital Markets Department and Fabio M. Natalucci, Deputy Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department The pace of global economic activity remains weak, and financial markets expect rates to stay lowe...

By Gita Gopinath, Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department at IMF The global economy is in a synchronized slowdown and we are, once again, downgrading growth for 2019 to 3 percent, its slowest pace since the global financial crisis. Growth continues to be weakened by ris...

By Jill Mislinski All eight indexes on our world watch list posted gains through October 14, 2019. The top performer is China's Shanghai SSE with a gain of 22.01% and in second is France's CAC 40 with a gain of 20.34%. In third is our own S&P 500 with a gain of 18.17%. Coming in last i...

This article posits that there is an unpleasant conjunction of events beginning to undermine government finances in advanced nations. They combine the arrival of a long-term trend of rising welfare commitments with an increasing certainty of a global-scale credit crisis, in turn the outcome o...

By Sharon Fay, Christopher Hogbin Global stocks advanced in the third quarter, but investor sentiment wobbled amid puzzling signals on macroeconomic growth and monetary policy. Political uncertainty and a cloudier outlook point to more volatility, which should compel investors to intensify...

On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Quantitative Investment Strategist Abraham Robison and Rob Cittadini, senior director, U.S. institutional, discussed contraction in the U.S. manufacturing sector, the U.S. employment report for September and the importance of a globally dive...

October 1, 2019 This morning we have further confirmation of the global downturn spreading with the US ISM manufacturing index contracting to 47.8 in September (50.1 was the consensus expectation); the second month in a row that the reading was under 50 (49.1 in August). This was the steep...

By Jeffrey Kleintop Global central banks moved quickly from raising interest rates in the second half of last year back to cutting rates in 2019. Central banks have been increasingly lowering interest rates this year, as you can see in the chart below. Central banks increasingly shif...

Rick Rieder and Russ Brownback highlight their view that effective monetary and fiscal policy in the 21st century needs to draw not only traditional economic theory, but also from the lessons of finance and other disciplines. We think the evidence is mounting that the global financial econ...