Trump era outlook for emerging markets debt in 2025

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In a new Trump era, the potential push higher in US inflation, growth, rates, the dollar and Treasury yields has implications for emerging markets debt (EMD) investors. Janus Henderson Investors

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Franklin Templeton reveals the data that will signal the future path of Fed interest rate cuts

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At the recent US Federal Reserve’s (Fed’s) 2024 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium, Fed Chair Jerome Powell stated that the US labor market is no longer overheated. Powell also noted

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A very hawkish pause

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At yesterday’s meeting, for the first time since March 2022, the Federal Reserve (Fed) chose not to raise policy rates, instead keeping the benchmark rate at 5.00%-5.25%. However, the Fed

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Higher inflation will not impact infrastructure returns

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Higher inflation and interest rates will have little impact on the valuations of regulated infrastructure assets, and some assets should see cash flows increase with upswing in economic growth, leading

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Precious metals show their mettle as inflation fears rise

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Precious metals prices have risen by around 10% in the past three months, as investors turn to alternative assets in the face of ongoing concern about a re-emergence of high

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The sky hasn’t fallen just yet

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Trade War Escalates, but the sky hasn’t fallen just yet as optimism crept back into the market on reports of fresh bilateral trade negotiations between China and the US, coupled

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When things are so good, they can’t get any better, they usually don’t: Principal on world economy  

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What happens after growth peaks? “A synchronized pick-up in global growth has been happening for some time. It started in early 2016 after the commodity rout ended, then gathered steam

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Powell’s congressional testimony displays commitment to threading-the-needle between goal attainment and overheating

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Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, regarding FOMC Chair Powell’s testimony before the U.S. Congress. Since the late-1970s, when Congress mandated that the Federal Reserve provide

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Jerome Powell a “continuity candidate”, says Principal Global Investors 

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Meet the new boss “Two days after the actual Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, President Trump officially nominated Jerome Powell to be the new Fed chair, replacing Janet Yellen

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