Featured Insights
Q4 Market and Strategy Update
Global Growth: Slow but Resilient
With core inflation below even our more dovish estimates, we expect global growth to remain low by historical standards -- but also resilient.
Recession Indicators Update
Recession Lessons: A Look Back at 1990
Our Recession Risk Dashboard continues to signal caution, with no changes from September. Meanwhile, we continue to explore how the model would have fared ahead of past pullbacks -- such as the recession of 1990.
Rising Development Costs
A Silver Lining for Commercial Real Estate?
Record high building costs have helped sustain asset appreciation and could also help shape new investment opportunities.
Municipal Market Update: October
Western Asset examines recent trends in the muni bond market and provides its outlook about conditions ahead.
Markets Now: Review and Outlook
Valuations support our view that U.S. stocks are positioned to underperform their international-developed market counterparts.
Chart of the Week
Chart courtesy of Brandywine Global. Source: Bloomberg, as of 11/12/2019. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. This information is provided for illustrative purposes only and does not reflect the performance of an actual investment.
Global growth: What the Bund says
Chart of the Week
Market Snapshot
Yield opportunities are on the rise
Market Snapshot
Current market uncertainties are generating potential opportunities for income investors.
Featured Insights
Mid Week Bond Update
Yield Curve: The Old Normal
The shift back to an upward-sloping yield curve doesn't necessarily mean that the threat of recession is no more.
Around the Curve
Beyond Pessimism: What Could Go Right
Six factors that could act as positive catalysts for markets.
Mid Week Bond Update
Liberation from LIBOR
What to expect as LIBOR, one of the world's key reference rates, is phased out in favor of new measures.
Brazilian stocks: Turning point?
Several exciting developments that bode well for Brazilian stocks may be going largely unnoticed by investors outside the country.
Life After LIBOR
LIBOR, one of world's most widely used financial benchmarks, is being phased out -- but what will replace it? Western Asset examines the consequences and impact for investors.
Stewardship in Perspective
Observations and insights into the future of sustainable investing from the most recent PRI (Principles for Responsible Investing) conference.
Mid Week Bond Update
Recession: Beyond the Gloom
Is the bond market's fear of recession overdone?
Around the Curve
The Global View: Three Reflections
Economic gloom, monetary policy and ESG: 3 key issues driving decisions now.
Dividend stocks
Should I Pay or Should I Grow Now?
Stocks with high current dividends and stocks that consistently increase dividends both have unique characteristics that can affect investor outcomes.
Mid Week Bond Update
Russia: Fully Priced?
After strong returns in recent years, what's next for Russia's bonds and the ruble?
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