Insights

Rate cut shows Fed still unsure of the right policy level.

Rate cut seen as preventative medicine in the face of global uncertainties.

Fed rate cuts shouldn't affect the way this strategy works.

A quarter-point cut is baked in. But a half-point? The market likely would love that.

Senior Portfolio Manager Randy Bauer outlines how the limited interest rate risk and low volatility of ultrashort bonds can support investors regardless of market, rate and economic cycles.

How will earnings, tariffs and interest rates affect the markets?

We're looking to the yield curve, currencies and security selection for alpha.

Only 0.1% of investment-grade companies defaulted in the last 35 years.

Would more than one rate cut undermine cash as an attractive asset class? Probably not. Debbie Cunningham explains.

Fed holds off for now but signals rate cuts are at the ready.

All the angst over tariffs and trade belies a consumer who is doing just fine.

Many reasons to expect inflation to remain low for longer (... Jones? Think The Monkees).

Policymakers hewed to their policy of 'patience.'

Risks between upward and downward moves appear relatively balanced.

After a strong first quarter, high yield and other credit securities settle into a clip-the-coupon environment.

The Fed essentially used the March meeting to reboot its message after its dramatic policy shift over the last two quarters.

By most measures, a recession isn't in the cards anytime soon.

The FOMC statement confirms the dramatic shift in Fed expectations since late 2018.

With no hike expected, markets will look to changes in the dot plot and balance sheet taper for answers.

Inflation shows little sign of breaking out. Until it does, it's difficult to see long rates breaking up in any significant manner.

Fed's Powell wants the markets to forget his vacillations of late 2018.

Fed Chair Powell should have let the statement do the talking.

The Fed kept rates steady, making markets happy with a dovish pause.

Fed Chair Powell shifts his view on interest-rate levels.

Fed chair signals that policymakers will go slowly on further rate increases.

The FOMC left policy rates and most language of its policy statement unchanged.

Fed chair Powell voiced considerable optimism at the policy-setting meeting.

An uneventful meeting followed expectations with a rate hike to a range of 2-2.25%.