Oil prices fuel volatility; all eyes on U.S. interest rates; resources swoon; and much more. How the economy and investments will perform in the year ahead. From the Mid-January 2015 issue of Investment Executive newspaper.
January 14, 2015
Oil prices fuel volatility; all eyes on U.S. interest rates; resources swoon; and much more. How the economy and investments will perform in the year ahead. From the Mid-January 2015 issue of Investment Executive newspaper.
January 14, 2015Given the weakness in the region's economies - plus the risks they face on several fronts - the overall sentiment on European equities is negative. Thus, many valuations are depressed
The U.S. is one of the brighter spots among world economies. But with a sharply rising currency and markets nervous over the effects of plummeting oil prices, much may depend on how the Fed fine tunes interest rates in the year ahead
Financial markets are worried about deflation, particularly in Europe but also elsewhere. In the U.S., the combination of steep drops in oil prices and a rising U.S. dollar (US$) lowers the cost of imports, keeping the rate of inflation low. However, global portfolio managers and strategists say these worries are exaggerated. Low inflation is not […]
Global financial regulators have made considerable progress in 2014 on reforms sparked by the 2007-09 global financial crisis. In the year ahead, regulators will continue to tweak those measures. At the most recent G20 meeting in November, Mark Carney, chairman of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and governor of the Bank of England, declared that […]
Although yield spreads for corporate issues over government bonds have tightened, the premiums still are attractive. But you and your clients must remember that when corporate bonds are stressed, they all suffer together
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