For investors, is AI all a game?
For the past six months it has been impossible to avoid headlines trumpeting some aspect of artificial intelligence (AI) – what it means, how it is...
Economist Insights
For investors, 1H23 was an exercise in making sense of interesting times
Six months into 2023, the term “goldilocks economy” has been dusted off by some investors as they contemplate declining inflation, strong labor...
Asia shines as second quarter winds down
With major central banks in Europe and North America still tightening policy in the face of inflation rates three or four times their official...
To investors, the ‘punch bowl’ still looks empty
In mid-June, markets got what they had been hoping for. The US Federal Reserve paused its rate hiking cycle and China’s central bank moved, albeit...
Getting a pause, hoping for a pivot
In mid-June investors got from the US Federal Reserve what they’d been hoping for since the beginning of the year: a pause in the Fed’s current...
Cashing in on interesting times
The end of the latest debt ceiling standoff and expectations that the US Federal Reserve will keep interest rates on hold when it meets next week...
Opening the door to another leg up?
The final week of May ended with US lawmakers voting to lift the country’s debt ceiling, markets assigning a one-in-three chance that the Federal...
Debt ceiling no obstacle for US Bond Funds
Amidst increasingly stark warnings of economic chaos if the current standoff over the US federal debt ceiling is not resolved, EPFR-tracked US Bond...
The best defense is a good Chinese economy
Worries about the impact a two-pronged credit squeeze, driven by quantitative tightening and the pressure on regional bank loan books, will have on...
Banking on more pain ahead
A recession in the second half of the year, triggered by the impact of current interest rates on the real estate sector and the banks that lend to...
Monetary squeeze tightens another two notches
Investors were expecting quarter-point interest rate hikes from the US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank (ECB) in early May. They got them,...
Investors take a two C approach in late April
China and cash were by far and away the most popular asset classes during the fourth week of April as investors and markets braced for another round...
Chinese economy lays down a marker
With mud season keeping the conflict in Ukraine deadlocked and the next round of major central bank meetings still a fortnight away, investors...
Data-driven towards another rate hike?
The second week of April offered investors two data points, the latest US jobs report and the inflation numbers for Match, that they hoped would...
A liquid start to the second quarter
US Money Market Funds kicked off April by recording their fourth straight inflow in excess of $50 billion as investors sought alternatives to...