BofA Global Research Fund Manager Survey:  Expected Fed Rate Cuts Drive Bulls

–Geopolitics Number One ‘Tail Risk’ –U.S. Yields, Dollar Higher On ‘Clean Sweep’ Expected for Republicans in November By Vicki Schmelzer NEW YORK (MaceNews) – World investors were bullish in July, with sentiment fueled by Federal Reserve rate cuts expected this year and into 2025, according to BofA Global Research’s monthly fund manager survey, released Wednesday. […]

As Foreign Investors Shun Italian Bonds, Domestic Retail Investors Increasingly Buying Public Debt – Sources

By Silvia Marchetti ROME (MaceNews) – Italian business lobbies and Democrat opposition forces voiced concern over foreign investors avoiding Italian bonds, though this is increasingly being counterbalanced by a rise in retail-only securities which is shielding Italy’s soaring public debt. “The Italian debt in the portfolio of foreign investors dropped from EUR 685 billion in […]

IMF: BOJ Should Consider Unwinding Monetary Easing Under Yield Curve Control Framework Now

IMF urges BOJ to consider ending yield curve control

–IMF: BOJ Then Should Gradually Raise Interest Rates–IMF Critical of Kishida Government’s ‘Untargeted’ Economic Stimulus Package By Max Sato (MaceNews) – The Bank of Japan should consider unwinding its large-scale monetary easing now by exiting the seven-year-old yield curve control framework, the International Monetary Fund said Friday, noting that easing in the past decade has […]

Italy’s Meloni Takes More Moderate Stance to Lure Bond Investors, Centrist Voters

By Silvia Marchetti ROME (MaceNews)- After more than a year in power, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is getting a ‘political makeover’ to take a more moderate stance and lure investors willing to support the country’s funding needs, say opposition forces. “She’s abandoning her neo-fascist rhetoric and revisiting her hard core, nationalist rightist policies in […]

BofA Global Research Fund Manager Survey:  Global Investors Choose Cash at Start of 2024

–Still Bullish Towards Growth and Bond Prices By Vicki Schmelzer NEW YORK (MaceNews) – Global investors reallocated into cash at the start of a new year, waiting for additional economic clarity before entering positions, according to BofA Global Research’s monthly fund manager survey, released Tuesday.   Inflation views were little changed in early 2024 but […]