Interest rates

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.