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BMO Market Charts - December 28, 2020
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Over the past decade, broad based index dividend yields have fallen across all major regions, creating a challenge for investors looking to generate income.
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BMO Market Charts - December 21, 2020
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Year-to-date, the Russell 1000 Growth Index has outperformed the Russell 1000 Value Index by over 33% – the largest calendar year difference in over four decades.
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Weekly Market Snapshot: December 18, 2020
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Policy and Regulatory Commentary
Working on “Political Time”
As all of Washington – and, in fact, the United States – awaits news from the Capitol confirming that leaders in Congress have formally reached an agreement on another COVID relief bill, an infuriating truth is once again resurfaced.
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BMO Market Charts - December 15, 2020
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Following the massive stimulus effort in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve’s percent ownership of outstanding Treasuries has reached a multi-decade high.
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Weekly Market Snapshot: December 11, 2020
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Coronavirus vaccine developments are extremely welcome news
The global economy hailed a series of positive developments on the vaccine front at the start of the month. Pfizer-BioNTech were first to announce successful Phase 3 trials of their vaccine with 95% efficacy. The Moderna and AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccines also reported positive results. No vaccine has yet received regulatory approval for mass public use.
Policy and Regulatory Commentary
A Team of Rivals? No
“To me it appears evident that an executive ministry composed of men with the qualifications I have described would speedily restore the credit of government abroad and at home, would induce our allies to greater exertions in our behalf, would inspire confidence in monied men in Europe as well as in America to lend us ⟨those⟩ sums of which it may be demonstrated we ⟨stand⟩ in need from the disproportion of our national wealth to the expenses of the War.”
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Weekly Market Snapshot: December 4, 2020
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BMO Market Charts - December 7, 2020
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While corporate credit spreads have narrowed considerably since March, they remain wider than the levels seen at the end of 2019.