Professor Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University has repeatedly warned that the US dollar is approaching a crisis of legitimacy. Having written extensively on the global recession in the late 2000s, Rogoff has turned his focus to the US currency’s increasingly unstable place at the top of the world’s financial hierarchy. A former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and a chess grandma...
Professor Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University has repeatedly warned that the US dollar is approaching a crisis of legitimacy. Having written extensively on the global recession in the late 2000s, Rogoff has turned his focus to the US currency’s increasingly unstable place at the top of the world’s financial hierarchy. A former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and a chess grandmaster, he published Our Dollar, Your Problem in May last year. In this interview, Rogoff elaborates...
matejmo/iStock via Getty Images Key takeaways 1 Fund performance Invesco Rochester® AMT-Free New York Municipal Fund Class A shares at net asset value (NAV) underperformed its style-specific index, the S&P Municipal Bond New York 5+ Year Investment Grade Index. 2 Seeking attractive opportunities through collaborative management Invesco Municipal Bond team uses a collaborative management approach. ...
matejmo/iStock via Getty Images Key takeaways 1 Fund performance Invesco Rochester® AMT-Free New York Municipal Fund Class A shares at net asset value (NAV) underperformed its style-specific index, the S&P Municipal Bond New York 5+ Year Investment Grade Index. 2 Seeking attractive opportunities through collaborative management Invesco Municipal Bond team uses a collaborative management approach. Relying on our size and experience, we seek to identify the best opportunities to achieve potentially better outcomes for shareholders. 3 Analysis focused on creditworthiness Our team uses a bottom-up fundamental credit process focused on creditworthiness of individual issuers with an overlay of macroeconomic factors to capitalize on market inefficiencies. Our process has been time tested over full market cycles. Manager perspective and outlook In the fourth quarter, investment grade, high yield and taxable municipals delivered positive returns of 1.42%, 1.11% and 1.05%, with annual returns of 4.25%, 2.46% and 7.89%, respectively. 1 Despite a lengthy federal government shutdown, long-duration municipal bonds performed well during the quarter, bolstering market strength. 1 New municipal issuance reached $143 billion for the quarter and a record $584 billion for the year, surpassing last year's record $509 billion. Shifting interest rate policies, higher costs and political uncertainty likely encouraged more issuers to come to market. 1 Net flows for municipal mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) were strong, totaling approximately $17.5 billion for the quarter and $52.4 billion for the year. 2 The US Federal Reserve (Fed) cut the federal funds rate twice, by 0.25% in October and 0.25% in December. The Fed reiterated its commitment to balancing maximum employment and a 2% inflation target. 3 We believe state and local municipal budgets remain healthy. While credit rating upgrades have moderated, upgrades outpaced downgrades in 2025, demonstrating to us strong fundame...
From mid- to late 2025, shares in Kohl's Corporation (NYSE: KSS) were on a tear. At first, this was due to meme stock-related speculation. Then, it was due to increased bullishness about the discount retailer's ability to successfully pull off a turnaround. But starting in November, at the start of the holiday shopping season, Kohl's rebound began to reverse. After an incredible surge from under $...
From mid- to late 2025, shares in Kohl's Corporation (NYSE: KSS) were on a tear. At first, this was due to meme stock-related speculation. Then, it was due to increased bullishness about the discount retailer's ability to successfully pull off a turnaround. But starting in November, at the start of the holiday shopping season, Kohl's rebound began to reverse. After an incredible surge from under $8.50 per share to $25, the stock has given back most of its gains, falling back to around $12. The latest sell-off occurred two weeks ago, following the company's latest earnings release. The earnings release suggests that the Kohl's turnaround remains a work in progress. Will we see the retailer take more aggressive steps, including a new round of store closures? Let's take a closer look at this consumer discretionary stock and find out. Continue reading
Shares of computer memory and storage products slumped on concerns over demand after Google researchers touted a new compression technique. But it may be a hiccup rather than an existential threat. SK Hynix Inc. , a key maker of memory chips for artificial intelligence applications, fell as much as 6% on the Korea Exchange. Flash memory manufacturer Kioxia Holdings Corp. dropped 4.4% in Tokyo. Tha...
Shares of computer memory and storage products slumped on concerns over demand after Google researchers touted a new compression technique. But it may be a hiccup rather than an existential threat. SK Hynix Inc. , a key maker of memory chips for artificial intelligence applications, fell as much as 6% on the Korea Exchange. Flash memory manufacturer Kioxia Holdings Corp. dropped 4.4% in Tokyo. That followed similar losses by Micron Technology Inc. and Sandisk Corp. Wednesday in New York. The Alphabet Inc. unit said its new TurboQuant technology can reduce memory size for large language models and vector search engines. Bulls tracking the blistering rally in global memory shares, however, say that improved efficiency will increase rather than reduce demand — an old theory known as the Jevons Paradox . The 19th century premise was cited in a note from the trading desk at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Its analysts said that investors may take profits on the news, but there’s no near-term threat to memory consumption. Memory and storage product prices have climbed in recent months amid shortages due to ravenous demand tied to the AI boom. That’s driven exponential moves in related stocks, such as Kioxia’s 700% surge since the end of August. The Google news spurred some caution that demand could be reduced, but some analysts pushed back on this idea saying the opposite is actually true. Jevons Paradox is an English economist’s theory about coal production, stating that the more efficient it becomes, the more the demand will rise. The idea was brought up last year when China’s low-cost DeepSeek AI model sparked fear of reduced demand for advanced technology. The Google development may make “little difference to demand given the extreme supply constraints,” Ortus Advisors analyst Andrew Jackson wrote in a note on Smartkarma. For Kioxia, “after such massive gains it makes sense we see a bit of profit-taking creep in.”
(Bloomberg) -- Shares of computer memory and storage products slumped on concerns over demand after Google researchers touted a new compression technique. But it may be a hiccup rather than an existential threat.SK Hynix Inc., a key maker of memory chips for artificial intelligence applications, fell as much as 6% on the Korea Exchange. Flash memory manufacturer Kioxia Holdings Corp. dropped 4.4% ...
(Bloomberg) -- Shares of computer memory and storage products slumped on concerns over demand after Google researchers touted a new compression technique. But it may be a hiccup rather than an existential threat.SK Hynix Inc., a key maker of memory chips for artificial intelligence applications, fell as much as 6% on the Korea Exchange. Flash memory manufacturer Kioxia Holdings Corp. dropped 4.4% in Tokyo. That followed similar losses by Micron Technology Inc. and Sandisk Corp. Wednesday in New
David Neal, CEO of IFM Investors, discusses his investment strategies and outlook for growth for the fund amid market volatility and elevated inflation risks. He speaks exclusively with Haidi Stroud Watts on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Financial and Innovation Symposium on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)
David Neal, CEO of IFM Investors, discusses his investment strategies and outlook for growth for the fund amid market volatility and elevated inflation risks. He speaks exclusively with Haidi Stroud Watts on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Financial and Innovation Symposium on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)
(RTTNews) - At the Annual General Meeting held in Stockholm on March 25, 2026, AB Electrolux's Income Statement and Balance Sheet, along with the Consolidated Income Statement and Balance Sheet for the Electrolux Group, were adopted. The Board of Directors and the President and C
(RTTNews) - At the Annual General Meeting held in Stockholm on March 25, 2026, AB Electrolux's Income Statement and Balance Sheet, along with the Consolidated Income Statement and Balance Sheet for the Electrolux Group, were adopted. The Board of Directors and the President and C
President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will hold their highly anticipated summit in Beijing on May 14-15, following a delay that brought fresh uncertainty to relations between the world’s largest economies. Bloomberg's Stephen Engle reports. (Source: Bloomberg)
President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will hold their highly anticipated summit in Beijing on May 14-15, following a delay that brought fresh uncertainty to relations between the world’s largest economies. Bloomberg's Stephen Engle reports. (Source: Bloomberg)