Market Trends: Insights on Inflation, Interest Rates, and Sector Shifts Economy & Central Bank Outlook The major monetary highlight during the past month was the larger than expected 0.5% US Fed rate cut, taking the Fed funds rate to a 4.75-5% range. Markets are anticipating 1.75%...
Market Trends Economy & Central Bank Outlook Continued benign US inflation reports and growing expectations that the US Federal Reserve would cut interest rates at the September policy meeting led markets to price in deeper rate cuts in both Australia and the US over August. Fed...
Market Trends: The tug of war continued in June The tug of war between growth and value exposures continued in June, with relative performance still broadly correlated with the movement in bond yields. Indeed, the decline in bond yields encouraged a stronger rotation back into growth/technology/quality exposures...