Even as the economy shows positive trends like slowing inflation and a healthy labor market, the bond market is showing anxiety. … READ MORE >
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Risk metrics: Monitoring distress in the U.S. financial sector
RSM highlights what we consider the most important market indicators and their long-term trends. … READ MORE >
End of an era? Bond market selloff prompts a new regime
The dramatic fiscal and monetary response to the pandemic has elicited a structural break in globalization, growth and liquidity regimes that have driven the world’s economies over the past 25 years. … READ MORE >
RSM U.S. Financial Conditions Index: Pricing in the cost of uncertainty
The RSM US Financial Conditions Index remains more than 0.2 standard deviations below normal. This is a indication that investors are requiring additional compensation for the risk of lending and the increased cost of investing in an environment of heightened uncertainty. … READ MORE >
Monitoring financial risk during pandemics
Global market participants have priced in the reopening of the Chinese economy on or around February 10, while the World Health Organization has cautioned that it is too early to declare the virus is at its peak. … READ MORE >