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Equities continued to rally in the second quarter, but the market remains undecided about whether the recent uptick in inflation is more likely to be transitory or persistent.

Senior Global Equity Opportunities Analyst Julian Wellesley discusses the role of banking in racial wealth inequality in the US and the steps banks could take toward financial inclusion.

What is the degree of Emerging Markets (EM) stocks’ undervaluation relative to United States (US) equities?

The industry is now seeing an expansion in data-driven practices, with new ESG and climate datasets emerging and becoming mainstream.

Chinese stocks have tumbled amid a regulatory crackdown on education and technology companies.

Mental health, addiction, and pain treatment will be fundamentally transformed by psychedelic drugs over the coming decade, giving rise to a multi-billion-dollar industry with the potential to drastically improve patient outcomes across a range of indications. Investors are starting to take notice and major backers are getting involved.

Chief Economist Scott Brown discusses the latest market data.

Someone once said, "technology has never moved this fast, and at the same time, will never move this slow again."

The debate over post-pandemic scheduling often centers on productivity.

It’s now official that the recession of 2020 was the shortest in history.

Recent protests offer hope that change may be right around the corner. But for now, gold and Bitcoin have helped fill the gap created by disastrously mismanaged currencies.

The title of this comment may seem odd, given that – as I write this on July 14, 2021 – the S&P 500 is at a record high.

During the second quarter, global equity markets extended their strong performance.

Amid a more modest equity market outlook, private equity and real estate are poised to thrive.

Commodities rallied 21% in the first half of 2021, making them the top performing asset group ahead of U.S., European, emerging market and non-Japan Asian stocks. The broad-based index of energy, agriculture, industrial metals and precious metals rose the same amount as high-flying Bitcoin, which pulled back after hitting its all-time high of more than $63,000 on April 13.

Xi has been trying to balance economic freedom and authoritarian control and it’s not working like it used to. Today we’ll review some recent events that illustrate where Xi went wrong.

CIO Robert Horrocks, PhD, discusses the short and longer-term prospects for Asia and EM in a rising inflationary environment.

In 2010, 68% of the companies in Fortune Magazine’s Global 500 were domiciled in Group of Seven (G7) countries, compared with 17% in the E20* emerging-market (EM) countries.

Our Chief Market Strategist Stephen Dover explores how quantum computers will soon unlock and slice through infrastructure and financial systems’ public key cryptography.

Heading into the second half of the year, pandemic concerns are not completely in the rear-view mirror.

The global economy is in a mid-cycle expansion, following peaks in policy support and growth, and what is likely a transitory spike in inflation. We expect global growth to moderate to a still above-trend pace in 2022.

As the global economy continued to reopen and the recovery gained speed, markets reached new highs.

Be forewarned – we are going to empty the quote bin this quarter.

Gold notched its third straight week of higher prices as the yield on the 10-year Treasury dipped below 1.3% for the first time since February.

The concept of retirement has changed over the decades—as have the ways of funding it.

Workers have the upper hand, but not for long; Latin America stagflates; and Sweden provides a case study in COVID-19 response.

Correction fears are overdone – amidst all the chatter about stocks being expensive and due for a correction, Brent’s team dissected price data going back to 1950 and found that corrections and bear markets are rarer than commonly perceived.

Gold notched its third straight week of higher prices as the yield on the 10-year Treasury dipped below 1.3% for the first time since February. The highly transmissible Delta variant was also ruled the most dominant strain of coronavirus in the U.S., threatening economic growth and raising uncertainty about the next interest rate hike.

Everything changed for me, my family and everyone I know on a Friday the 13th.

Our Chief Market Strategist Stephen Dover explores blockchain and digital assets through an equity-investor lens with Anthony Hardy and Christophe Vande Walle.

Known globally for its charm bracelets, Pandora is the world’s largest jewelry brand.

The pristine surface of a lake on a perfectly calm and sunny day is easy on the eyes. Yet it usually offers no insight as to what lies beneath.

With so much focus being placed on the inflation versus deflation debate of late and many financial pundits declaring a new inflation paradigm is upon us, what better a time to argue the case for deflation.

For international investors, we believe the United Kingdom is home to many companies that offer an especially attractive combination of growth, value and quality. 

Pro-value cycles have historically been long and durable.

As the world convalesced from the pandemic, stocks advanced in the second quarter and earnings rebounded across sectors.

In Part-2 of “Capitalism” does not equal “Corporatism,” we delve into why bailouts support corporatism and how to fix the system.