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Bill Ehrman
The global economy, including the United States, is muddling through with growth well below potential, but better than a year ago.
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Bill Ehrman
It seems to me that the "experts" are always following the market rather than anticipating where it will go.
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Bill Ehrman
The Fed needs to always exude confidence...
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Bill Ehrman
The continued drop in commodity prices raised fears in the financial markets that global growth was slowing to a crawl. The result? Bond prices rose while stock prices fell.
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Bill Ehrman
My key takeaway from the events over the last several months is that there is no place like home.
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Bill Ehrman
The financial markets have been held hostage by the possibility of Greece defaulting on its debt obligations and the Fed raising rates and beginning its journey toward normalization.
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Bill Ehrman
Last week's major events support the view that globalization is a fact of life, influencing economies, financial markets and government policies everywhere to a greater extent every day.
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Bill Ehrman
Bonds will lose their luster as the yield curve steepens and there will be a rotation in the stock markets to companies that will benefit from the acceleration in global growth.
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Bill Ehrman
The collapse of the financial markets in 2008 reinforced risk management to a fault and, as such, hedge managers as a group have underperformed the averages for the last seven years...
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Bill Ehrman
Nothing moves markets more than when the heads of both the ECB and Federal Reserve Board speak about monetary policy and the economy. It certainly happened this past week!
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Carl T. Delfeld
One Southeast Asian country in particular stands to reap big gains from the imminent approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Bill Ehrman
What you choose has direct bearing on your asset allocation, regional exposure and specific investments.
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Carl T. Delfeld
Singapore's founder, Stamford Raffles, would be amazed if he were to come back today and see what the nation has become.
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Bill Ehrman
Global economic growth is improving across many regions and will have lower highs and higher lows over the long term.
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Bill Ehrman
Now that earnings results are in for many corporations, we can breath a sigh of relief as results, at least so far, are at or near expectations despite several headwinds.
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Bill Ehrman
Sometimes, upsetting the status quo can be disruptive and disconcerting in the short term, but good for the long term. These types of disruptions are occurring now around the world.
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Bill Ehrman
The U.S economy will resume faster growth in the spring, boosted by consumer spending, milder weather and some growth overseas.
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Bill Ehrman
While many headwinds remain, the U.S. continues to improve its competitive position in the world and improve its operating efficiencies globally.
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Bill Ehrman
The Fed is doing the right thing by remaining cautious, as it needs more proof that the economies both here and abroad are really doing better and are in recoveries that are sustainable.
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Bill Ehrman
While the dollar strength is certainly not unexpected, the velocity of the gain has impacted the world's financial markets in various ways.
