Interest rates

Angst over the Fed’s decision to lower borrowing costs has seeped into the $3.8 trillion market for municipal bonds.

Some managers have taken on more risk amid a decades-long decline in interest rates and slow global economic growth to meet long term targets.

The firm's global economic adviser laid out perhaps the most concise and straightforward case I’ve seen yet for what structural changes are behind this phenomenon of paying for the privilege of purchasing debt.

The bank, which has made wealth management its central focus, plans to charge its Swiss clients an annual fee of 0.6% on deposits of more than 500,000 euros.

With markets near certain that the Fed will lower rates this month, debate has shifted to the size of the cut and its impact.

Home prices are outpacing wages in about 40% of markets, while 61% were less affordable than the historic average, data shows.

The firm is snapping up five- and 10-year notes as it predicts slowing inflation and trade tensions will push the Fed to lower its benchmark 75 basis points.

Many relatively straightforward products have boosted their holdings of lower-rated bonds and emerging markets to juice returns.

Investors plowed into bullion-backed funds after the U.S. and China reached a truce in their trade war.

There is growing disquiet among those who run and invest in the products about potential problems that might be caused by rate cuts from the Fed.

Bullion gains have intensified amid signs that the Fed and other central banks are turning more dovish on monetary policy.

The yield on Mozambique’s sole dollar bond, due 2023, has fallen almost 5 percentage points this month to 11%.

Bullion is “once again trying to reclaim its role as a safe haven” amid trade war concerns and the Fed’s halt on rates, a strategist said.

Households struggling with even modest debt levels may be less resilient than in years past, research shows.

The billions of dollars that have flooded the state and local debt market this year have only heightened the craving.

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One theory for underperformance has been the long steady gains in markets since the financial crisis.

CEO Ronald O’Hanley says the poor performance reflects both the industry’s “continued challenging conditions,” as well as “lower client activity.”

Outperformance has been driven in part by a push among investors to cut their tax bills after new limits were set on state and local deductions.