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Jim Sinegal
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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...
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M&T BANK CORPORATION

M&T Bank is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides individuals, corporations and other businesses, and institutions with commercial and retail banking services, including loans and deposits, trust, mortgage banking, asset management, insurance and other financial services. Banking activities are primarily focused on consumers residing in New York State, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia and on small and medium-size businesses based in those areas. Certain subsidiaries also conduct activities in other areas.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

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.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Jim Sinegal

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