Guide to the Markets – Daily Update
Daily comprehensive market and economic trends through clear and compelling charts.
Daily comprehensive market and economic trends through clear and compelling charts.
Recently updated with the latest available data, Guide to the Markets provides a comprehensive array of market and economic histories, trends and statistics through clear, compelling charts and graphs.
Investors around the world are increasingly curious about the Chinese fixed income market, which at USD 13.5trillion is now the world’s second largest.
Last year, buybacks were all the rage; this year, the pace of share repurchases has slowed, but the pace of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) has accelerated.
Improving credit fundamentals, light tax-exempt supply and robust demand have driven the strong performance of municipal bonds in 2019.
Start the week off right with this one-page snapshot of headlines and market performance.
In this special holiday edition, Michael explains how an evening at home went awry: how a discussion about China and Hong Kong morphed into a chart war about Trump, Hoover, Taft, Rachel Maddow and Anderson Cooper.
In 2020, the hunt for yield is likely to continue.
With little room for the unemployment rate to fall lower, many economists are growing increasingly concerned with the availability of labor supply and, the prospects for near-term economic growth.
Global trade tensions may continue into 2020, weighing on global growth and acting as a headwind for further equity market gains.
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