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Tyler Cowen linked to an interesting article on China's financial situation: The government's dramatic about-face from encouraging aggressive overseas acquisitions to cracking down on risky lending and overseas transfers underscores worries over the risk that the nation could run short of...
For much of the current expansion, cycle investors have been forced taught to believe in a Heads-I-Win-Tales-You-Lose investing environment in which good economic news was good for equities and bad economic news was also good for equities. Good news obviously indicates a positive environment...
By Edward D. Perks, CFA, Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer, Franklin Templeton Multi-Asset Solutions, and Gene Podkaminer, CFA, Head of Multi-Asset Research Strategies, Franklin Templeton Multi-Asset Solutions Market volatility has been on the rise as US-China trade tensio...
By Sonal Desai, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income In light of the Federal Reserve's recent interest-rate cut, our Fixed Income CIO Sonal Desai takes a look at how US central bank thinking seems to have changed, and whether there's a ...
By Bluford Putnam The Chinese yuan's stability during a ceasefire in the trade war is likely to be shattered with a new round of US tariffs set to go into effect on Sept 1. Editor's Note : The summary bullets for this article were chosen by Seeking Read more ...
David Morgan: "This is the real move in gold and silver… it's going to be multiyear." Welcome to this week's Market Wrap Podcast, I'm Mike Gleason. Coming up David Morgan of The Morgan Report joins me to break down the recent move in the metals, explains why he believes the move...
Growing evidence of a severe global recession is sure to provoke more aggressive monetary policies from central banks. They had hoped to have the leeway to cut interest rates significantly after normalising them. That hasn't happened. Consequently, as the recession intensifies, central banks w...
By Krishna Memani, Vice Chairman of Investments You can count me as surprised. But not for why you are thinking - that the ticker tape is not looking very good now or that safe assets are rallying. When the two largest economies of the world are firing warning shots across each other's...
By Seth Meyer, CFA In a period of falling interest rates, yield is dear, and high yield therefore remains an attractive asset class. However, with increased interest rate volatility and uncertainty around economic growth, Portfolio Manager Seth Meyer says a cautious approach and a focus o...
By George P. Maris, CFA Markets sold off sharply this week after a sudden escalation in the U.S.-China trade war. George Maris, Co-Head of Equities - Americas, explains why the reaction was so severe and offers insight on how investors can navigate this period of uncertainty. Transcrip...