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Dimensions & Insights: Blockchain and Fintech Expand With Diversity and Inclusion
by Regina Curry, Roger Bayston of Franklin Templeton Investments, 9/5/23

Chief Diversity Officer Regina Curry and Franklin Templeton Head of Digital Assets Roger Bayston believe creating workplaces with intentional collaborative, inclusive, and debiasing practices can power great development environments.

Reinventing Cars—Risks and Rewards on the Transportation Highway
by Roger Bayston, Aleck Beach, Patrick Klein, Thomas Runkel of Franklin Templeton Investments, 2/5/19

New mobility technologies are reshaping how cars are powered, driven and used for years to come.

Global Economic Perspective: May
by Christopher Molumphy, David Zahn, John Beck, Michael Materasso, Roger Bayston of Franklin Templeton Investments, 5/22/18

In this month's Global Economic Perspective, our Fixed Income Group opines on rising energy prices, US Treasury yields, emerging-market currency pressures and global economic growth.

Where Might Credit Risks Exist? Follow the Supply
by Roger Bayston of Franklin Templeton Investments, 11/22/17

In 2017, corporate credit, including high yield, saw a resurgence in interest within a longer-term trend of increasing supply. In recent weeks, however, it has shown some cracks.

Will the Fed Take a (Rate) Hike?
by Roger Bayston of Franklin Templeton Investments, 9/16/16
With major US market averages hovering near all-time highs and the US economy showing modest growth, I believe that the Fed has the ammunition it needs to pull the trigger and raise its short-term interest rate, possibly this year.

In the Know: Fed Policy and Fixed Income
by Roger Bayston of Franklin Templeton Investments, 6/30/15
As fixed income investors, we have to build more tools and use different types of tools when managing our portfolios, allowing ourselves to remain more liquid in some of our short-term investments in order to keep what we believe to be a prudent level of risk given the changes in liquidity in the marketplace.

Global Economic Perspective: January
by Christopher Molumphy, Michael Materasso, Roger Bayston, Michael Hasenstab, John Beck of Franklin Templeton Investments, 1/28/15
After a much better-than-expected annualized growth rate of 5% in the third quarter of 2014, the stars would seem to be fairly much aligned for continued US growth in the months ahead. Job growth has continued apace, interest rates and energy prices have remained low, and consumer and business confidence has been buoyant. As we start the new year, the main areas of uncertainty would seem to be the pace of growth and the implications of recent price and employment trends for the timing of monetary tightening by the US Federal Reserve (Fed).

Global Economic Perspective: December
by Christopher Molumphy, Michael Materasso, Roger Bayston, Michael Hasenstab & John Beck of Franklin Templeton Investments, 12/27/14
With 321,000 jobs added, the initial US nonfarm payroll report for November was much stronger than markets expected and brought job growth this year close to levels last seen in the late 1990s. Added to upward revisions in September and October jobs data, the nonfarm payrolls data reinforces the view that whatever is occurring in the rest of the world, the US economy appears to remain firmly on track to record reasonably strong growth in the months ahead. And while fourth-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) growth this quarter for the United States is expected to be lower than the third-quart

Global Economic Perspective: November
by Christopher Molumphy, Michael Materasso, Roger Bayston, Michael Hasenstab & John Beck of Franklin Templeton Investments, 11/26/14
Steady improvements in US employment and relatively good economic growth figures mean that debate over when the US Federal Reserve (Fed) will begin to tighten policy continues to be the order of the day. US job growth increased at a fairly brisk pace in October, and numbers for the previous two months (already good) were revised higher. Since the start of 2014, US employers have added more than 220,000 workers on average each month, which should be sufficient to sustain economic momentum after an initial reading showed annualized gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 3.5% in the third quarter

A Treasury Market Disconnect
by Roger Bayston of Franklin Templeton Investments, 10/20/14
As the US economy continues to show signs of strength and the US Federal Reserve (Fed) continues to wind down its quantitative easing (QE) program, one would think the US Treasury markets would start reflecting a potential rise in inflation, and the eventuality of Fed monetary policy tightening. However, there has been a bit of disconnect in terms of behavior on the long end of the Treasury yield curve.

Perspectives from the Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group
by Christopher Molumphy, Michael Materasso, Roger Bayston, Michael Hasenstab, and John Beck of Franklin Templeton Investments, 7/19/14
In early July, there was a noticeable disconnect between the median forecast of Fed officials for interest rates by end-2015 and the markets forecast, as expressed in the federal funds futures rate. But if unemployment continues to decline and inflation to pick up in the coming months, the danger for bond market participants is that their predictions for interest rates may be too low and will have to be adjusted.

Fixed Income Outlook: Moving From Zero
by Christopher Molumphy, Roger Bayston of Franklin Templeton Investments, 7/18/14
Some prior market prognostications of rising rates have proven slow to play out as global central banks, namely the Bank of Japan and European Central Bank (ECB), have continued to ramp up easing measures and the US Federal Reserve (the Fed) has only slowly begun to lay off the gas pedal recently.

Risk Assets Take Fed Taper Announcement in Stride
by Roger Bayston of Franklin Templeton Investments, 12/23/13
The US Federal Reserve (Fed) delivered an early holiday surprise to some market participants, announcing at its December 18 policy meeting it would start slowing its asset purchase program known as quantitative easing in January. For some thoughts on what this may mean for the markets in the new year, we turned just after the announcement to Roger Bayston. He believes the markets should be able to take the Feds tapering in 2014 in stride, although investors should prepare for the proposition of higher Treasury yields.
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