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\"Sales<\/a>Let\u2019s start with this past week –<\/strong><\/p>\n

Markets climbed higher this past week as investors were buoyed by better than expected employment figures.\u00a0 Stocks were led higher by Technology and Healthcare shares, while a reversal in interest rates hit utility stocks hard.\u00a0 Emerging markets and small cap stocks were the big winners last week, emphasizing the appetite for risk that investors have at this point.\u00a0 While last week was characterized by weak volume (excluding the opening of the new quarter), trading should pick up over the coming weeks as earnings reports kick into high gear.<\/p>\n

Asset Swaps are driving Merger Activity-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Big Mergers are back. To fund them, buyers are using a little creative thinking and a lot of common stock to fuel the best quarter for global takeovers since 2007.\u00a0 As they agreed to more than $900 billion of purchases in the second quarter, buyers turned to their rising stock prices to finance deals. For buyers with public listings, all-cash offers made up about one-third of the takeovers announced in the second quarter, data compiled by Bloomberg<\/a> show. A year earlier, all-cash bids accounted for two-thirds of deals, and in the five years through 2013 they averaged 50 percent.<\/p>\n

Interest Rates will remain Lower Longer-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tyler Mordy,<\/a>\u00a0has written<\/a>\u00a0“The real enemy of the bond market is inflation. Since the financial crisis, a widely held assumption is that ballooning central bank balance sheets would lead to a rapid rise in consumer prices. Evidently, that was wrong.\u00a0 The correct interpretation is that quantitative easing and its monetary offshoots do not necessarily guarantee credit expansion and, hence, a rise in inflation. That\u2019s abundantly clear now. Deflationary forces have been much more persistent in recent years than inflationary ones, although \u201casset price inflation\u201d has been undeniably rampant.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\"markets<\/a><\/p>\n

The general thought that interest rates are headed higher, but the actions of the bond market over the past 6 months may suggest otherwise.\u00a0 If there is anything that the past 6 months has taught us, it is to always remember that when everyone is leaning in one direction there is a great possibility that the market is going to go in wherever the greatest pain for investors lies.\u00a0 With so many still forecasting higher rates to come, could it be possible that the market is going to continue to apply the pain trade, or will it finally reward those who have suffered the pain throughout the first half of the year.<\/p>\n

To learn more about Guy Conger, view his Paladin Registry profile<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s start with this past week – Markets climbed higher this past week as investors were buoyed by better than expected employment figures.\u00a0 Stocks were led higher by Technology and Healthcare shares, while a reversal in interest rates hit utility stocks hard.\u00a0 Emerging markets and small cap stocks were the big winners last week, emphasizing the appetite for risk that investors have at this point.\u00a0 While last week was characterized<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":4307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investing"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Markets Mid-Year Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Markets climbed higher this past week as investors were buoyed by encouraging employment figures. 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