"This [trigger] idea has caught on, and could greatly complicate the bill's path — and it surely would complicate long-term tax planning if a future tax hike suddenly becomes a possibility," Greg Valliere, chief global strategist at Horizon Investments, wrote in a note to clients.
"What's going on in Europe is part of the equation that helps banks determine when to issue a loan, and there's a real concern that U.S. banks are going to take a hit," Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist of the Economic Outlook Group, an economic forecasting firm in Princeton, N.J., told HuffPost Small Business.
"There is really a very interesting value for investors, something that happens once a decade," said Jack Malvey, chief global fixed-income strategist at Lehman Brothers.
"If you sell bonds to your own citizens, and you do it in your own currency, you don't have much of a problem," said Ajay Kapur, the chief global strategist for Mirae Asset, a big South Korean financial services company.
"Nothing in this report suggests that the recovery is in trouble — the markets need to get a grip," said Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist at the Economic Outlook Group in New Jersey.
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In a conversation late last week, Jack Malvey, chief global fixed-income strategist at Lehman Brothers, talked about how investors might profit from the developments.
THE bond market this year has outperformed the stock market for the first time in a decade, and Dr. Edward Yardeni, chief global economist and investment strategist at Deutsche Bank Securities, forecasts that aging baby boomers will help keep the bond rally going.
Why should Beijing sacrifice its interests to solve a problem of its chief global adversary's making?
"The political situation has gone from horrible to bad, but we're still a long way from a constructive resolution," said Michael Purves, chief global strategist at Weeden & Company.
