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Is Bank Tightening Ammo For ECB Stimulus?
The euro area bank lending survey for the second quarter of 2019, released yesterday, suggests European banks are becoming more cautious and beginning to tighten lending criteria to various parts of the economy.
PIC’s RT1: The Brexit Premium in Practice
The UK’s political situation, and in particular the harder Brexit stance of the frontrunner for next prime minister, Boris Johnson, has provided the market with a steady stream of headlines over the past few weeks. As a direct consequence sterling is close to 6% off recent highs and domestic credit spreads have also underperformed their European and US peers.
Strategic Income - Quarterly update - July 2019
Eoin Walsh discusses Q2 performance for the Strategic Income strategy and looks forward to the rest of the year.
Outcome Driven - Quarterly update - July 2019
Chris Bowie looks at the performance of the Outcome Driven strategy over the last quarter and provides his outlook for the rest of 2019
Asset Backed Securities - Quarterly update - July 2019
Ben Hayward looks at the Q2 performance for Asset Backed Securities and provides an outlook for the year ahead.
What Can Q2 Earnings Tell Us About The Fed?
One of the market’s chief obsessions in 2019 has understandably been the shifting stance of the US Federal Reserve in relation to the path for interest rates, with investors now pricing in a 100% chance of a rate cut at the end of this month. Now that the June FOMC minutes, Nonfarm payrolls, Jerome Powell’s testimony to Congress, the June CPI and PPI numbers and the Trump-Xi meeting at the G20 in Osaka are behind us, what is the next set of data that may shed some light on the Fed’s next policy move?