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Sam Goldfarb announces in the Wall Street Journal U.S. government bond yields fell toward the bottom of their recent range Tuesday, highlighting a search for safer assets amid worries about a deadly virus outbreak in China.” One also notices in the news today , A far-left go...
By Matthew Sheridan The era of low yields and the investment challenges they bring isn't likely to end soon. Ongoing geopolitical tensions and slowing global growth will contribute to persistently low and negative yields in 2020 . A global slowdown could leave the world even more vulnerab...
By Edward D. Perks, CFA, Chief Investment Officer, Franklin Templeton Multi-Asset Solutions and Gene Podkaminer, CFA, Head of Multi-Asset Research Strategies, Franklin Templeton Multi-Asset Solutions Although easing US-China trade tensions have renewed investor optimism about global econom...
"Relative Value" is always a consideration. It is perhaps the main consideration, until you have passed the line in the sand, which is what we have done now, in my estimation. Now it is a question of "Absolute Value" for fixed-income investors because the yields are so low in any bond asset cl...
So much winning! Global equity markets are pushing higher, and many are at all-time highs. Chinese equities and the yuan are perking up. The threat of tariff wars is receding. Industrial commodity prices are turning up. Housing starts in the US are soaring. Consumer confidence is high. Financi...
Having reached their yield low at 1.32% in July 2016, US 10yr bond yields have been locked in just shy of a 2% range for the last two and half years (subsequent high 3.25% and low 1.43%). For yields to fall again, supply must fall, demand rise or central banks recommence their experimental mon...
Interest rates likely headed higher, too. Tuesday was a good day for inflationistas . According to the latest release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Consumer Price Index ticked up 0.2 percent in December. The more telling stat, however, was the year-over-year inflation rate - 2....
Originally published January 13, 2020 How the problems created by the zero lower bound can be better framed with The Four Equation New Keynesian Model Eric Sims is the chair of the economics department at the University of Notre Dame and is a research associate with the National Burea...
Traders call copper "Dr. Copper" because he has a Ph.D in economics. In fact, most of the time, Dr. Copper forecasts recessions and recoveries, inflation and deflation, far more accurately than his colleagues in the "dismal science," so it pays to pay attention to his macroeconomic messages. ...
By Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D., Vice Chairman & Chief Monetary Economist Beginning in 2018, in a long sequence of actions, the US enacted tariffs on goods from a number of countries besides just China. In some cases the affected countries responded with their own retaliatory tariffs on US ...