Fed Watch: Inflation Will Drive the Bus in 2016
It’s official. 2016 will be the year we can all stop obsessing over when the Fed will begin to normalize monetary policy—and…
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How a Presidential Election Cycle Can Move Markets
Just as presidential candidates are on the road engaging in debates and meeting with voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election, I’ve…
The Many Paths Ahead for Monetary Policy
I heard a common theme in my recent encounters with clients and central bank officials in Frankfurt, London, Beijing, Tokyo, Auckland, Wellington…
The Surprising Relationship of High Yield ETFs & Interest Rates
After the strong jobs report on November 6th, it’s looking like the Fed might finally have some data to justify in their…
October Inflation Data: The Tide May Be Turning
The absence of wage gains as the unemployment rate halved from 10% to 5% since 2009 has been a continuing conundrum. But…
10 Key Fed Takeaways from the Monetary Policy Conference
Blogging a whole conference can be an exhausting affair. Two things I did not expect — sitting in on the press conference…
Video: Fixed-Income ETF Opportunities for Rising Rates
The bond market has been one of the most closely watched areas in the ETF industry in 2015. The mini flash crash…
WisdomTree: Yellen to the Markets: Come To Me
By most accounts, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) statement released September 17 failed to break much new ground in terms of…
Big Week of Earnings for Big Biotech ETF
Last week, Federal Reserve Chief Janet Yellen dealt a blow to the biotechnology sector when, in a rare move for any Fed…
Indexology®: The Fed’s Next Move
The Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed’s policy makers, meet on Tuesday and Wednesday this week and will issue a statement on…
BlackRock: Connecting the Dots on Fed Policy
With the release of the March FOMC minutes, many investors have been trying to decipher how and when the Fed may make…
Market Vectors: No Surprise in Yellen’s Plans
While we may see further clarification from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen or her colleagues in the coming days, her statement yesterday…
Indexology®: The Yellin Fed
The FOMC, the Fed’s monetary policy unit, meets next week on January 28th and 29th. It will be Ben Bernanke’s last meeting…
Yellen’s Help for EM ETFs May be Fleeting
Emerging markets exchange traded funds holding bonds, currencies and equities finished higher last week after Janet Yellen, President Obama’s nominee to be…