Browsing: interest rates

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Asset prices will probably move when central banks start cutting rates in earnest. Are you ready?

For a long time we couldn’t compare the rates of interest on cash in investment accounts for one simple reason. Brokers weren’t paying any interest on cash! Rising rates have so dominated the news for the past 18 months that it’s easy to forget that interest rates were near-zero for…

Escalating interest rates are widely thought to be bad news for stocks and bonds. Is this true? And if so, how grim can things get?