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AAM Viewpoints: Jobs and CPI: Fuel for the Fed to Start Their Engines
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The January jobs report — headlined by the Change in Nonfarm Payrolls number of 467,000, which was significantly higher than expectations (125,000) — was nothing short of spectacular.
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Weekly Market Compass: Europe echoes the Fed’s hawkish tone
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There was a gasp heard around the world last week, prompted by the words of Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank.
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AAM Viewpoints: Recent Volatility and the Flattening Yield Curve
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In conversations beginning as early as last June, we periodically described selected Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings as “the most important meeting in recent memory.”
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Weekly Market Compass: Can the Fed reduce its massive balance sheet ‘in the background’?
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For the past several weeks, imaginations have been running wild about what the Federal Reserve will do this year to help tame rising inflation.
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AAM Viewpoints: Investing During a Tightening Cycle
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In about two months the Federal Reserve is expected to issue its first interest rate hike in three years, and presumably begin a new tightening cycle.
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Weekly Market Compass: The monster under the bed
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I remember when my children were young, they were all so afraid of what was under their bed at night.
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AAM Viewpoints: 2021 Fixed Income Review
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2021 was a challenging year as news of fast-spreading COVID-19 variants added stress and volatility to the financial markets.
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Weekly Market Compass: Have Omicron and the Fed changed our 2022 outlook?
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At Invesco, constructing our annual outlook is an important endeavor.
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AAM Viewpoints: To Issue or Not to Issue? That is Every Municipality’s Question
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Last year the municipal (muni) market sold a total of $475.3 billion of debt, second to the record of $484.6 billion that was attained the previous year.
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Weekly Market Compass: Markets react to the Fed’s hawkish turn
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As regular readers of my blog know, I have at times been something of an armchair epidemiologist over the past two years.
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AAM Viewpoints: The Big Quit, Great Inflate, and the Viral Spiral: A Deadly Credit Cocktail or Mere Speedbumps?
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Corporate credit quality has strengthened at a near unprecedented pace in 2021.
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Weekly Market Compass: Market predictions and investment resolutions for 2022
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Oh what a year it’s been. We began last year with high hopes, given the rapid development of vaccines – and those hopes were realized.