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The positive impact of the 79 basis point decline in mortgage rates since November is making its way to the housing market data. Mortgage applications and pending home sales appear to have bottomed, with the latest update showing a 7.4% jump in mortgage…
Junk bonds have been on fire during the past few months. Since the end of June, the sector has delivered a total return of 7.9% and has bested duration-matched US Treasuries by a whopping 9.5%. Our US bond strategists don’t advise chasing junk spreads…
BCA Research’s Global Asset Allocation service concludes that for investors who maximize risk-adjusted returns, US Treasurys were always a good risk diversifier to US equities in nominal terms, but the same could not be said in real terms. For risk-minimizing…

Biden’s State of the Union address will mostly be blocked by a gridlocked Congress. The one point of agreement, big spending, spells trouble over the long run, even if a technical default is avoided this fall.

The Fed is betting that the usual non-linearity of unemployment is different this time, but so far, there is nothing to suggest that it is different. We discuss the key signposts to watch out for, plus the implications for interest rates and asset allocation.

In this Strategy Insight, we go over the RBA’s recent decision and the implications of its hawkish message for AUD trades.

This is the first of two Special Reports aiming to answer client questions in response to the recent dramatic changes in stock-bond correlations. In this report we focus on what role US Treasurys have played since 1872, how the current regime shift in stock-bond correlation compares to 150-years of history, and how it will impact asset allocation going forward. 

The Fed’s latest Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS), which reports on both the demand for and supply of bank loans, revealed that demand weakened and standards tightened in Q4 2022. In particular, 45% of all banks reported that they “tightened…
As expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia raised its cash rate by 25 bps on Tuesday to 3.35% -- marking the ninth consecutive rate hike. In particular, Governor Philip Lowe’s statement highlighted that robust domestic demand as well as global factors are…
Powell’s much anticipated comments to the Economic Club of Washington on Tuesday did not signal a shift in the Fed’s outlook following Friday’s unexpectedly strong jobs report. Instead, in his first appearance since last week’s 25bp rate hike, he highlighted…