Has the Fed’s rate-cutting cycle been knocked off course?

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Trump win sparks stock rally despite inflation fears

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Trump win gives Republicans strong mandate

Stephen Auth, CFA Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer, Equities Trump wins „Bigly“; Senate flips; House still undecided. Confounding the experts, President Trump handily won the Presidential election late on election night. Along with this, he solidly flipped the Senate; the only branch of government undecided as of this moment is the House, which will be […]

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A common misconception about money market products is that they are only concerned with short-term economic developments because daily liquidity is a defining feature. But cash managers seek to gain higher yields than deposit products by investing across a longer time horizon, often out to a year. Noise in the data and news is no […]

A big-swing budget

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Strategic Value Dividend: Why now, why always

Why do dividend-paying strategies make sense? Video transcript For the dividend investor, the ‘why now’ question really is a ‘why always’ answer. The math of dividend investing is one that works out over years, if not decades, of being a business owner through the stock market. It implies a certain degree of patience and watching […]

MNA: the building blocks of the euro bank merger cycle spring back to life

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Stripped down to the basics, life on Earth offers local respite from the universal, inexorable drift towards entropy by using information to create order from chaos for the price of energy. The anti-entropy trick in all living cells relies on three key molecules that orchestrate, implement, and fuel an intricate, ingenious cycle: deoxyribonucleic acid, better-known […]

A guide to fixed income and the US election

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Fast reading The race for the House of Representatives and the Senate is also too close to call. The uncertainty has prompted slightly more defensive positioning, at least in the short term. There is a decent cushion to total returns this year. The rate outlook and supportive fundamentals means this is unlikely to change, but […]

Quantitatives Investieren mit MDT Advisers

Wer ist Federated Hermes MDT Advisers? Deutsches Transkript MDT Advisers ist die aktive quantitative Aktiensparte von Federated Hermes. MDT ist ein auf US-Aktien fokussierter Anlageverwalter; heute verwalten wir fast 12 Mrd. USD in verschiedenen US-Aktienstrategien, einschließlich einer marktneutralen Strategie. Auch wenn Ihnen der Name MDT vielleicht noch wenig geläufig ist, gibt es uns schon seit […]

A false dawn for China?

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