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Slower Growth Ahead
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What can investors expect in 2020? CIO Deborah Cunningham explains her economic outlook.
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Workplace ghosting
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Job-seekers are ghosting employers in one of the tightest labor markets in 50 years.
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Progress with China drives stocks higher
If a trade deal emerges, leading to expectations for GDP and corporate-profit growth, look for a year-end rally.
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Growth vs. Value in global developed markets
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Since the mid-1970s, value stocks have generally outperformed growth stocks in developed markets around the globe. The current cycle of growth’s outperformance, starting in 2007, has had both the longest duration and highest magnitude in history.
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The dollar: Heads I win, tails you lose
The dollar has strengthened even as the Fed has cut rates.
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Global Corporate Debt
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US Dollar denominated corporate debt has the highest yield and makes up 66% of global issuance, underscoring its attractiveness in this low rate environment.
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'Isn't that what you're supposed to do?'
Worries about oil shock are overblown as trade, Fed dominate market concerns.
Children & College Savings
College: the new 'debt sentence'
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At nearly $1.6 trillion, student debt is double the size of the Defense budget and is second only to mortgages on the list of the largest household liabilities.
Fixed Income Insights
Did the Fed just go Minority Report?
We believe the Fed is taking a risk — one we hope works — in shifting from reactive to preemptive monetary policy. It was not that long ago that the Fed was more forthright about the uncertainty inherent in economic forecasting as Chairman Powell used the analogy of walking into a dark room and slowing down to avoid furniture as an analogy for the Fed’s situation. Today, they seem more certain that they know the future and aim to alter it.
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'Ain't no shame in a pushy broad'
There's been a violent shift from momentum to value. Will it continue?
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Isn't that what you're supposed to do?
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Bond yields have reversed much of the August decline. The reasons are many.
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'Step away from the television'
Brainwashed investors think things are really bad. That may be good for stocks.