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Taking an Inventory of Investor Worries

Jan 06 2016
The Pacifica Partners Winter 2016 Quarterly Commentary: Most years, financial markets tend to rally in the month of December. As the 2015 holiday season wound down, investors found that Santa had deprived them of their traditional yearend rally. Instead of a rally, investors were left showered with volatility to close off 2015 and clinging to…

Submerging Markets – the downside of developing economies

Sep 08 2013
Over the last several years, investors became accustomed to the belief that the influence of the U.S. economy and its policies on the emerging markets nations was waning. The emerging markets countries include the well-publicized BRICs group of countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) but also nations such as Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand and South Africa.…

Investors have a Taper Tantrum

Aug 06 2013
The financial industry rarely has a challenge when coming up with clever headlines to describe the markets. Our newsletter gets its title from recent investor reaction to the mere hint that the US Feder-   al Reserve (the ‘Fed’) may reduce or ‘taper’ its monthly $85 billion bond purchase program. Since bond prices and interest…
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