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"Going into this year, the belief was that global easing was over and things were looking better for the entire world," said Jim Vogel, senior rates strategist...

“The key reason for Treasury to introduce the 20-year now is that it gives it a warm-up period,” said Jim Vogel of FHN Financial. “It will be absolutely...

Investors saw the data and similarly soft reports from Europe as a signal to reposition investments that had been pegged to a growing sense of economic...

The softer data “stuck a small pin into any sense of momentum from the end of last year,“ said Jim Vogel, head of interest-rate strategy at FHN Fin...

“It is astonishing that a ten-year expansion and a 50-year low 3.5% unemployment rate is not generating more wage pressure,” said chief economist Chris...

"On the one hand, we still don't know what to make of what's coming out of Iran. On the other, the economic data is just too good to ignore," analyst Chris...

“There’s no satisfactory resolution in the Middle East over any investment horizon, but the lack of clarity this month will pose particular challenges...

Some investors who expect yields to fall further may have used the decline in yields “as a fresh alarm that things aren’t as rosy as they appeared three...

“Consumers never lost faith in the jobs market,” said chief economist Chris Low of FHN Financial. “Almost everyone who wants to work is working.”

“That's anchoring the short end of the curve," said Jim Vogel, an interest rate strategist at FHN Financial in Memphis, Tennessee.

“With light volume flows, it didn’t take much selling to generate a sharp bear steepener on global government curves,” wrote Jim Vogel, an interest-rate...

Jim Vogel, Interest Rate Strategist for FTN Financial, on global market outlook, and why EM could benefit in 2020.