All United States articles – Page 4
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Resilient private credit fills a growing need across U.S. and Europe
The U.S. and European private credit markets have been a significant success story of asset management for the last decade.
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Rate cuts: are they justified by employment data?
The resilience of the labour market, evidenced by low unemployment and solid job growth, is seen as a key driver of the US economy’s strength. But in 2023, the trend of robust job creation shown in the previous two years began to deteriorate as the pace of newly created roles slowed down.
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An Alternative Outlook Note for the Season
Headlines remain dominated by highly negative news flow, a tough geopolitical landscape and the prospect of a divisive US election campaign. With a nod to the season, rather than writing a traditional pre-year-end outlook, our final note to clients this year is a short commentary on what might be a more positive prognosis for the future. We will follow with a note early in the New Year featuring key themes for 2024.
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Dovish Fed contemplates rate cuts: risks to weaker US growth persist
The Fed kept its benchmark overnight borrowing federal funds rate unchanged at 5.25-5.50% for the third consecutive meeting, that is, a period now spanning almost five months. The FOMC statement and press conference were more dovish than we – and the market – expected. This was exemplified in Chair Jerome Powell’s comment that the Fed believes interest rates are at or near their peak in this cycle.
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Powell pivots policy: moving closer to rate cuts
The U.S. Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged at its December meeting, as expected, and updated projections signal even more rate cuts in 2024 than previously expected.
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Allview: Market Risk Monitor - December 2023
Each month, Allspring’s Investment Analytics team assembles a top 10 list of market risks that it believes have the potential to influence investment portfolios.
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Addressing the Affordable Housing Crisis
Daron Tubian, Head of Affordable Housing Investments at Barings, sits down with Rich Roberts of Red Stone Equity Partners to discuss the housing affordability crisis in the U.S., and how investors can play a role in the solution while also earning potentially attractive returns.
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FOMC on Hold — Rate Cuts by May 2024?
As expected, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to keep its key interest rate, the federal funds rate, unchanged at 5.25%–5.50%.
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2024 Outlook: Global Real Estate
Against a hazy backdrop, our real estate debt and equity experts bring today’s biggest challenges into focus—while also weighing in on where opportunities are emerging across the U.S., Europe, and Australia.
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Assessing the U.S. Economy’s Evolving Sensitivity to Interest Rates
Our research series reveals that a varied adjustment process across certain sectors lowered the broader economy’s sensitivity to interest rates.
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The Balance Between Corporate Profit Margins and Economic Resilience
This blog shares our views on the relationship between corporate margins and different U.S. economic growth scenarios using our corporate profit model to estimate performance.
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What has driven the stock-market rally – and can it continue?
Equity markets delivered positive returns for four consecutive weeks in November. The S&P 500 index rose about 9% last month, marking its strongest monthly performance since July 2022. There was no obvious reason for this rally, unless a slight miss of 0.1% in the October US Consumer Prices Index (CPI) report counts. But if not, what prompted this surge? In this weekly edition of Simply put, we investigate the forces behind the rally and what this means for its staying power.
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Office Space: The CRE Effects On Major U.S. Cities
Rising office vacancy rates, declining property valuations, and the respective impact on tax revenues and city budgets are a source of growing concern for municipal bond investors.
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Resilient private credit fills a growing need across U.S. and Europe
The U.S. and European private credit markets have been a significant success- story of asset management for the last decade. Having begun life as a source of financing for mid-market companies that could not raise funds elsewhere, private credit has grown into a serious and credible competitor to both traditional bank debt and the liquid markets (i.e., the leveraged loans and high yield bonds), something that would have seemed fanciful just a few years ago. Now, private credit players are regularly financing the entirety of multi-billion-dollar debt structures.
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2024 US real estate market outlook: Healthy commercial real estate fundamentals
Clarion Partners believes the US economy will remain resilient in 2024, despite tightening monetary conditions and heightened geopolitical uncertainties.
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Asset Manager News
T3 Rino signs full-Building office lease with Xcel Energy
Mass Timber Office Building Draws Largest Office Tenant in Denver’s RiNo Area
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US bonds: Thinking beyond rates
In an economic environment characterized by rising interest rates and slowing growth, our investment professionals see fixed income as a beacon of opportunity.
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Markets bounce on waning inflation
Markets reacted positively to stronger-than-expected US and UK inflation data this week.
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Up then (marginally) down again
Markets rose earlier in the week on hopes of an interest rate freeze from the world’s central banks; only to reverse course on the back of less dovish outlooks from the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England.
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2024 Outlook Public Fixed Income
With heightened uncertainty and widespread risks blurring the outlook, our credit market experts explore the future prospects for asset classes ranging from high yield, to investment grade credit, to emerging markets debt.