As long as
global interest rates remain historically low, look for U.S. equity markets to continue to rise.
Not exact matches
That's important because the ECB's liquidity is one of the biggest
remaining supporting factors behind the
global stock market rally, now that the Federal Reserve has ended its own «quantitative easing» program and has started to raise official U.S.
interest rates.
While the Fed has indicated it plans to raise short - term
interest rates, the uncertain domestic and
global economies and the still - loosening monetary policy of central bankers in other countries suggests that
rates could
remain very low for a long time still.
Global market volatility persisted this week, as investors
remained nervous on China's slowing economy along with a possible
interest rate increase at the U.S. Federal Reserve's mid-September meeting.
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.
According to Matt Hornbach,
Global Head of
Interest Rate Strategy, growth expectations, while boosted,
remain just below FOMC consensus and he and his team expect them to decelerate in 2019.
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 m
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 m
global interest rates are still likely to
remain low for some time, notwithstanding upward revisions to those expectations in the past couple of months.
Global equity sentiment
remains a bit shaky as concerns over rising commodity prices and higher
interest rates continue to suggest lower corporate margins for the...
Global equity sentiment
remains a bit shaky as concerns over rising commodity prices and higher
interest rates continue to suggest lower corporate margins for the remainder of 2018.
The flurry of deals is a reflection primarily of three factors: low
interest rates, robust corporate balance sheets and a
global economy that
remains sluggish.
But remember, we live in a
global world and
interest rates remain low in most large developed bond markets including Japan, Germany and the UK.
But as markets become more
global and
interest rates remain low, some rules about saving, spending, investing and retirement may be out of date, may be misunderstood or be just plain wrong.
The bank said the biggest risk to maintaining manageable affordability levels would be a sharp rise in
interest rates, but many analysts believe that is unlikely to occur as long as
global economic growth
remains moderate and inflation pressures soft.
To return to an earlier point I raised that a linear lapse
rate mathematically translates a temperature change at any altitude to other altitudes including the surface, I
remain interested in observational data on linearity is terms of a flux - weighted
global average.
With the major central banks helping to keep
interest rates low to support the growth of the economy and financial markets, the
Global Investment Committee has cautiously overweighted risk assets but «has stopped well short of a maximum overweight position because the environment
remains challenging.»