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Soaring inflation has upended the financial markets this year, resulting in sliding asset prices and elevated volatility. Cautious investors continue to brace for unfriendly central bank policies designed to cap the steadily rising prices of goods a...

The last couple of years can be described as anything but normal. Since early 2020, global government responses to the worldwide pandemic have ranged from extreme lockdowns to variable reopening policies, while massive monetary and fiscal stimulus h...

Those invested in the broader equity markets should be happy with this year’s results. Despite rising interest rates, new waves of the coronavirus and China’s backlash against capitalism, risk markets have soared in 2021 with the MSCI World Stock ind...

Since early last summer, the US Federal Reserve has been talking about tapering. In order to support the economy during the pandemic, America’s central bank has been keeping longer-term interest rates artificially low by purchasing US Treasury bonds...

Banks, insurance companies and other financial sector stocks have been big winners this year. Rebounding sharply after last year’s wipe out, the sprawling industry has advanced by 19.39 per cent year-to-date. The sector’s return has exceeded the broa...

Since the beginning of Trump’s presidency in 2017, trade war news dominated media headlines and rocked global financial markets. Then in 2020, an unexpected pandemic overturned the world both socially and economically. From early last year, trade iss...

Despite some recent choppiness, stock market averages continue to hover near their all-time highs – but that masks a subtle shift occurring beneath the surface. Lately, cyclical stocks, or those most dependent on economic strength for profits, have b...

After a long hiatus, stock dividends may finally be having their day in the sun. Last year, dividend-focused strategies lagged the overall market averages by a wide margin. In the year of the pandemic, investors flocked to growth stocks leaving more ...

Inflation expectations just reached their highest levels in a decade and that has some investors on edge. Every week we see additional news coverage about resurgent inflation and rising longer-term interest rates. In the world of fixed income, intere...

With the turmoil that was 2020 in the rear-view mirror, investors are looking to the future as vaccine distribution begins and the global economic recovery gains traction. In the months ahead, we see reasons for both optimism and caution. On balance,...