Interest rates
Fed minutes: Moderate growth forecast fueled shift to jobless rate
The Federal Reserve's earlier-than-expected decision Dec. 12 to base changes in interest rates on the unemployment rate instead of a predetermined date was spurred by expectations of a moderate pace...
January 03, 2013 | 04:08 pm
Fed's course could make for an interesting 2013
Institutional fixed-income money managers are concerned the Federal Reserve's monetary policy stimulus moves in 2013 could include harder targets for adjusting the federal funds interest rate that...
December 24, 2012
Dan Fuss: 'We passed the best time of the credit cycle'
Very little keeps Dan Fuss up at night, but the Loomis Sayles & Co. LP vice chairman is concerned about interest rates, the state of pension funds, credit risk and the so-called fiscal cliff.
December 12, 2012 | 10:10 am
Equity shift to start in 2013, Bank of America Merrill Lynch says
Next year will mark the beginning of the “great rotation” to equities from bonds, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch economists and strategists.
December 11, 2012 | 04:03 pm
CFA survey shows rising economic, stock market optimism
Forty percent of respondents to the CFA Institute's annual global market sentiment survey expect the global economy to expand next year, up from 34% a year ago.
