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Tag: financial system

Post-crisis stimulus still drives markets, and its unwinding brings great risks

by Asia Unhedged May 31, 2017February 18, 2020

Investors may look at the market driver dujour – the Trump trade of this year, for instance – but central bank stimulus is still running in the background, helping maintain record high equity valuations along with minimal risk premiums. As Michael Mackenzie writes for the Financial Times, with central banks adding US$1.1 trillion to the […]

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