The vast majority of institutional managers also predict Congress will raise in the US debt ceiling and that domestic housing market will pick up, according to a survey by Northern Trust.
Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom want to know: Does quantitative easing really have a “broadly
neutral” effect on the population, as the Bank of England claims?
With inventories of corporate bonds at the lowest point in a decade, Towers Watson foresees sustained illiquidity and heightened volatility ahead for the fixed-income market.
Central banks may have inadvertently traded their control over inflation for the current low interest rates and eased money supply, according to Scott Minerd of Guggenheim Partners.