Following years of divergence between the performance of value and growth style investing, is the recent revival in value here to stay?
Read more…Negative-yielding debt has taken financial markets by storm, recently reaching an unprecedented $17,000,000,000,000 globally.
Read more…The U.S.-China trade war became a potential currency war in August 2019 when China allowed its currency to depreciate to more than 7 yuan per U.S. dollar.
Read more…Since the financial crisis in 2008-09, the investment landscape has been dominated by one theme: central bank intervention or, more precisely, zero interest rates and increased money supply.
Read more…At the beginning of the year, an escalating trade war between the U.S. and China was noted as a risk to our outlook, which was that global economic growth is likely to remain positive in 2019, albeit at a much slower pace.
Read more…It has been 10 years since stock markets bottomed in 2008-09 following the financial turmoil caused by excessive leverage.
Read more…Over the first quarter of 2019, global economies continued to slow, Brexit and U.S.-China trade remained uncertain, but the key theme was the pivot in U.S. Federal Reserve policy.
Read more…Stock markets have rallied significantly and consistently since 2009 when central banks cut interest rates to zero and increased the money supply through quantitative easing (QE) programs. Ten years later, these measures are largely still in place.
Read more…Markets roared back in January from December’s steep sell-off. The S&P/TSX Composite Index was up 8.7% – it’s best month in a decade. In the U.S., the S&P 500 Index had its best January performance in over 30 years.
Read more…2018 was a turbulent year for stock markets. The year started strong with most equity indexes reaching new highs in the first quarter.
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