Chinese investors’ enthusiasm is helping China’s dollar bonds trade at lower yields than U.S. Treasuries—a historical anomaly because the U.S. securities have historically been considered the safest of investments.
Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee says that although the Fed will take its time reducing interest rates, the end result will be much lower rates if inflation stays near the Fed’s target.
Shoppers will pay: “Significant tariffs on China [would] have all sorts of wide-ranging implications—not only in the supply chain, but [in] the overall economy,”
The leveraged loan market is seeing Trump’s election as a “tailwind” for after-tax corporate profits, “through lower expected corporate tax rates, less regulation, and higher inflation.”