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Third Quarter Review: "Higher for Longer"

This increased deficit and a resilient job market made investors worry that the Fed would continue raising rates or, at the very least, hold them “higher for longer.” The result was a “bear steepening” of the yield curve, whereby the last few months saw a continuation of the defining trend of the past 1-2 years: a relentless rise in interest rates.

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4th Quarter 2022 - A New Hope?

After falling for most of the year, markets rebounded in the fourth quarter of 2022. Evidence of easing inflation paired with a resilient labor market spurred hopes that the Federal Reserve might slow the pace of monetary tightening, leaving room for a goldilocks "soft landing" scenario—whereby inflation reverts to pre-pandemic levels without triggering a significant recession.

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