The Markets
Comments Off on The MarketsUK economic growth in the first quarter was helped by the fastest expansion in business investment in two years, official figures have shown. (more…)
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UK economic growth in the first quarter was helped by the fastest expansion in business investment in two years, official figures have shown. (more…)
Late last year, McKinsey & Company released a report that took a closer look at “the distributional affects and risks” of quantitative easing (QE) and low interest rates. In other words, who was affected by QE and low rates and how? (more…)
Six million children with savings in Child Trust Funds (CTFs) will be able to convert them to Junior ISAs, the government has announced. (more…)
Exceptional… exceeds expectations… meets expectations… needs improvement… unsatisfactory. It’s a rating system familiar to anyone who has ever received a performance review. Right now, the performance of inflation is not meeting expectations – and that may be a good thing.
According to the Bank of England, economists assume interest rates will rise and move toward equilibrium or a ‘natural’ real rate of interest that takes into account inflation over the long term.
Baseball great Yogi Berra once said, “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.” He may have been on to something.
Last May, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke introduced the idea the Fed’s economic stimulus program, known as Quantitative Easing (QE), might be ratcheted down sooner rather than later. The concept, that easy money – the Fed has injected about $2.75 trillion into financial markets during the past five years – could soon be behind us, threw global markets into a tizzy. (more…)
The Bank of England put its neck out and did a fair imitation of the U.S. Federal Reserve last week when it offered forward guidance tying tighter monetary policy to unemployment levels.
One of these things is not like the other… If you find yourself humming that old Sesame Street standard when you think about financial markets and world economies, you’re probably not alone.
It was like watching a game of telephone where one child speaks into another child’s ear and that child speaks into another child’s ear and, by the time the last child repeats the original statement, it has transformed into something completely different.
Like a not-quite-dead villain in a horror film, the Eurozone crisis raised its ugly head again last week, scaring investors and causing many stock markets to close flat or slightly down for the week, according to Barron’s. Investors’ worries strengthened demand for Treasuries, pushing the yield on the benchmark 10-year bond lower.
