Interest rates and investor sentiment on hold
Investors hoping for the p-word got one during the third week of September. But it was ‘plateau’, rather than ‘pivot’, as the Bank of England and US...
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Another turn of the screw in Europe
The question of when major central banks will declare victory in their battles against inflation or, in the case of China, misallocation of credit...
Keeping the powder dry in early September
The first week of September saw EPFR-tracked Money Market Funds absorb over $65 billion as investors waited to see which way interest rate winds are...
Real pain for real estate on both sides of the Pacific
Although the third week of August ended with a stellar earnings report from Nvidia, maker of the graphic chips driving current artificial...
Cashing in and going on holiday
With the next US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank policy meetings still a month away and the 2Q23 earnings season beginning to wind down,...
Flows get several red stars in early August
Over $5 billion flowed into dedicated China Equity Funds during the first week of August as equity investors continue to pivot from Europe to Asia....
An AA+ rating for US debt, B- for fund flows
Coming into August, the advance of global asset markets was checked by a ratings downgrade for the world’s largest economy, more charges against...
Will 22 years be high enough for Fed, ECB?
Interest rates in both the Eurozone and US hit a 22-year high during the fourth week of July as the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank...
Growth sectors and India shine in mid-July
With inflation falling on both sides of the Atlantic despite resilient job markets, investors dared during the third week of July to dream of ‘soft...
Hope gets a 3% boost ahead of Fed’s July meeting
EPFR-tracked US Equity and Bond Funds absorbed a combined $22.2 billion during the second week of July. Of that total, $11 billion flowed in on the...
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...