As Britain’s painfully complex break from the European Union (EU)—commonly referred to “Brexit”—continues to be worked out, a royal union is coming together over the weekend as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will wed on Saturday, May 19, 2018 at Windsor Castle in...
Macro View Daily Insights One Royal Union comes together as another breaks apart. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will wed on Saturday. Around 600 guests are expected to attend, a small crowd in comparison to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (William & Kate) who...
Treasuries have been under pressure in recent months, with the 10-year yield hitting 3% for the first time since late 2013 (see this week’s Bond Market Perspectives) due to a combination of factors including expectations of higher economic growth and inflation, as...
Macro View Daily Insights How much do interest rates matter for EM equity investors? Over short-term periods, like what we are experiencing now, rising interest rates tend to cause higher volatility for emerging market (EM) stocks. However, over intermediate and...
As our LPL Chart of the Day shows, European economic data reached a noteworthy low on May 7, after Citi’s Economic Surprise Index for the Eurozone dipped beneath -100 for the first time since 2011. (Citi’s surprise indexes average economic surprises compared with...
