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The past two months serve as a classic example of how compounding works. The stock market was down 30% in one month and then it went up 30% in the next month, but it is still 10% below where it started. As interesting as this may be, the real interest is in what lies ahead. In this article, we...

Here's Bloomberg : Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said policy makers are "thinking very hard" about targeting specific yields on Treasury securities as a way of ensuring borrowing costs stay at rock-bottom levels beyond keeping the benchmark interest rate near zer...

The upside down stock market has continued powering upward, with the S&P 500 breaking back above the 3,000 level to close the month of May at 3,044.31 . That's both 341.84 points (about 10.1%) below where the market peaked back on 19 February 2020 and 806.91 points (about 36.1%) ab...

The Fed released the latest Beige Book , which offered a very dour assessment of the economy (emphasis added) : Economic activity declined in all Districts – falling sharply in most – reflecting disruptions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Consumer spending fell f...

By Frank Shostak Inflation is typically defined as a general increase in the prices of goods and services—described by changes in the Consumer Price Index ((CPI)) or other price indexes. If inflation is a general rise in measured prices, then why is it regarded as bad news? What k...

By Sharat Kotikalpudi Today's bond yields are extremely low, and some multi-asset investors may be struggling to rationalize exposure to interest-rate driven assets such as government bonds. But past experience suggests that they can still be effective diversifiers, even at low yield level...

One phenomenon investors face today is the fact central banks around the world have moved to a negative interest rate posture. Earlier this month Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell, stated the U.S. Federal Reserve is not considering moving the Fed Funds Rate to a negative level though. Ye...

By Paul W. Varunok, Portfolio Manager, Mortgage-backed Securities, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group ® Like most asset classes, mortgage-backed securities ((MBS)) have seen heightened volatility over the past two months as the world copes with COVID-19 and investors look to red...

By Kevin Flanagan, Head of Fixed Income Strategy Given the current state of the U.S. economy and the prior dislocations in the money and bond markets, there has been an increasing amount of chatter regarding whether the Federal Reserve (Fed) would actually consider pushing the Fed Funds ra...

Central banks printing money leads to inflation. It sounds right... right? Not so fast. For US investors, the 1970s era of elevated inflation and the early 1980s Fed-induced recession still eludes recency bias. We are conditioned to believe that massive amounts of quantitative easing and lo...