While
lower global interest rates have helped contain debt - servicing costs, the past year or so has seen a significant increase in net dividend payments.
And
with global interest rates so low, fixed income and cash alone are unlikely to enable your savings to keep up with your cost of living after retirement.
With
global interest rates near historic lows, investors may continue to search for income in a variety of asset classes that may include global equities.
Without a clear voice from Berlin, the EU will simply find it harder to articulate policies to deal with the suppression of civil rights in central Europe, the splintering of the single market through Brexit and — heaven help us — a possible renewal of the Eurozone crisis amid
as global interest rates turn higher.
The Japan election could have consequences for the future leadership of the Bank of Japan and the country's impact
on global interest rate trends.
Another unusual aspect of
current global interest rates is that long - term rates, which are set by the demand for and supply of funds in capital markets, have remained quite low in the face of rising official interest rates.
The Japan election could have consequences for the future leadership of the Bank of Japan and the country's impact on
global interest rate trends.
That trend towards higher inflation expectations continued into U.S. inflation expectations, indicating that the ECB QE announcement, and coincident with tentative signs of stabilization of oil prices, may mark the low point of deflationary fears
driving global interest rates to new lows.
Bonds with the lowest investment grade have been a market darling over the past decade, ballooning in size as low
global interest rates drew fund managers seeking higher returns.
Government outlays for military purposes play a large role in driving fiscal deficits and in
raising global interest rates, leading to increased debt, capital shortage, and cut - backs to social and civil infrastructure, all ofwhich result in the exacerbation of social and ethnic tensions, violent crime, fundamentalism, instability and conflict.
Coordinated global interest rate cuts, promises to insure all manner of deposits, bank recapitalizations in Europe, the Federal Reserve's direct intervention in the commercial paper market and other measures were all adopted.
As noted previously, the Fed does not act in a vacuum; rather, it operates in something akin to a canoe with its fellow central bank policymakers, navigating a multitude of economic cross-currents while trying to
guide global interest rates.
Blackstone earlier this month took advantage of low
global interest rates by issuing 1 percent senior notes, raising 600 million euros ($ 655 million).
The dollar bond market has turned cold for Indian firms after a record 2017, with
rising global interest rates, geopolitical concerns and market volatility prompting would - be financiers to demand either a higher yield or invest only in short - term paper maturing in two years.
This instrument is valued via a combination of factors, among them payment history,
current global interest rates, global demand for credit, political initiatives within the country, and the vague idea of «global prosperity and security».
On the other hand, they're not sure what will happen
with global interest rates or demand for Canadian exports — both of which will have a large impact on real estate.»
The convergence of Japan's P / E multiple to more global norms is therefore partly a function of convergence
of global interest rates to similar extremely low levels through synchronized quantitative easing by central banks.
Among these indicators were outflows from the large pool of global capital that has flooded emerging markets over the past few years, continued
low global interest rates, rising Chinese debt levels and relaxed margin limits...
«That's undoubtedly a reflection of higher materials cost,» said Thierry Wizman,
global interest rates and currencies strategist at Macquarie Group.
In mid-November, Bank of America's Michael Hartnett said, «If Brexit marked a 5,000 - year low in
global interest rates, Trump marked the moment investors started to position for a bond bear market.»
And Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Michael Hartnett went a step further, declaring, «If Brexit marked [a] 5,000 year low in
global interest rates, Trump marked [the] moment investors started to position for [a] bond bear market.»
«Warsh is believed to be on the more hawkish side,» said Thierry Albert Wizman,
global interest rates and currencies strategist at Macquarie.
Industrial metals surged too along with emerging market assets on the hope that low
global interest rates will boost both growth and demand for resources.
«Traders, it seems, are finally giving the 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield its due, by realizing that the prospect of higher U.S. real GDP growth, higher U.S. inflation warrants a higher yield,» said Thierry Wizman,
global interest rates and currencies strategist at Macquarie Group.
And Q1 data is probably not going to be as bad as some of the pessimists expected,» said Thierry Wizman,
global interest rates and currencies strategist at Macquarie Limited in New York.
The lack of synchronization in policy stances across countries should help to moderate the reaction of
global interest rates.
Consider, the many different channels of potential Brexit influence — not only the impact on international trade and
global interest rates and currencies, but also on bank equity prices and on political uncertainty.
Notwithstanding this, an increase in
global interest rates would, over time, be expected to flow through to us, just as the lower interest rates have.
However, Rieder believes that doesn't factor in the role of low
global interest rates.
The global interest rate environment is changing.
Global bond yields remain relatively low, reflecting expectations that
global interest rates are still likely to remain low for some time, notwithstanding upward revisions to those expectations in the past couple of months.
For long - end interest rates, recall this meant that low
global interest rates would keep long - term interest rates in the U.S. low.
Prior to that, he was with RBC Dominion Securities in Toronto where he was involved in trading Canadian Mortgage - Backed Securities products,
global interest rates and foreign exchange.
Rich global valuations, predominantly thin risk premiums, and uniformly rising
global interest rates haven't rewarded investors historically, on average.