Muted Inflation Convinces Fed to Take a Breather
The Federal Reserve chose to stand pat at its latest meeting, despite slowly improving economic activity. Positive news includes the expansion of both household spending and business fixed investment, but inflation still remains below the central bank’s goal of 2%. In our view, the lack of inflation pressure supports the thesis that current monetary policy is not overly accommodative due to continuing long-term trends in global demographics, technology, and credit demand. Interestingly, futures...Bank of America is a bank and a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company's segments include: Consumer Banking, which provides credit, banking and investment products and services; Global Wealth & Investment Management, which provides investment management, brokerage, banking and retirement products; Global Banking, which provides lending-related products and services, integrated working capital management and treasury solutions, and underwriting and advisory services; and Global Markets, which provides sales and trading services and research services.
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Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.
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