Market practitioners have kicked off 2017 with expectations of a tightening monetary policy and brighter corporate and economic fundamentals. With this in mind, BMA shares its house view on a few trending investment themes and offers examples of risk management…
Solid employment gains of +255k in the month of July. Gains in professional and business services, healthcare, and financial activities. Jobs in the mining sector continued trending lower. Unemployment rate (U3) steady at 4.9% or about 7.8mm people. Average hourly…
While many investors are focused on whether or not the FOMC will raise the Fed Funds rate at its next meeting in September, LIBOR (the London Interbank Offered Rate) has slowly crept up over the past month (nearly 7.5bps in…
Roiling global markets into the weekend and less than a day after the tragic terrorist attack in the French Riviera town of Nice, it was reported just hours ago that the Turkish military attempted a military coup. Turkish news agency…
In a tale of two central banks, the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan (BOJ), began the week with two opposing market expectations for their respective conclusion of their monetary policy meetings. While the market expected the US…
