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U.S. Election 2020: An Investors’ Guide
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With the early Iowa and New Hampshire contests behind us, what’s next in the race to the White House? Dr. Christopher Smart offers insight into how investors can tune out the noise and focus on the scenarios that are already coming into view.
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AAM Viewpoints: Small Business Optimism Posts a Third Year of Strong Readings
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Over the past few years I’ve written about trends in small businesses based on the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Survey of Small Business Economic Trends. I follow these trends because I come from a family with multiple generations of small business owners and small companies in the United States create about two-thirds of net new jobs, drive innovation and account for 44% of U.S. economic activity.
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Weekly Macro Update: Metternich, Modi & Markets
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European diplomacy once centered on a theory that the best way to keep peace and stabilize financial markets was to preserve a "balance of power" that would prevent any one country from growing too strong and pushing others around. But with global supply chains—and the world's economy—under threat from epidemics, technology rifts and tariffs, President Donald Trump's efforts to balance China’s rise with a visit to India this week look very much like yesterday's answer to today's problems.
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Global Markets Weekly Update: February 21, 2020
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Review the performance of global stock and bond markets over the past week, along with relevant insights from T. Rowe Price economists and investment professionals.
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AAM Viewpoints: Coronavirus and Domestic Credit
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The last recession was the sub-prime mortgage crisis, before that the dot.com bubble aggravated by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and before that it was the Savings & Loan crisis. In these past recessions there were, at the time, issues not generally foreseen, but when they broke it opened fissures in the economy that ultimately led to a recession.
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AAM Viewpoints: Is Recent Bond Market Volatility About More Than Easing Coronavirus Fears?
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As fear gives way to resolve and markets assess the potential economic impact of the coronavirus, a risk on mentality has taken hold with global equity markets taking back losses and global bond markets selling off in concert. While these fears are sometimes a bit irrational, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 12,000-61,000 Americans have died from influenza since 2010, there is no doubt we can all understand the underlying fear.
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Global Markets Weekly Update: February 07, 2020
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Review the performance of global stock and bond markets over the past week, along with relevant insights from T. Rowe Price economists and investment professionals.
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AAM Viewpoints: Current Events Overshadowing a Nascent Recovery
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While we have previously mentioned, I feel it is important to revisit the race between the results of the FOMC’s (Federal Open Market Committee) model-driven restrictive policy in 2018 and the potential recovery borne of the Fed’s 2019 mea culpa.
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Global Markets Weekly Update: January 31, 2020
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Review the performance of global stock and bond markets over the past week, along with relevant insights from T. Rowe Price economists and investment professionals.