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This week, we continued to see signals that inflation in the U.S. remains hot, with both the producer price index (PPI) and consumer price index (CPI) coming in above expectations, now at multidecade highs.

November started off on solid footing, with equity markets logging their best weekly return in more than four months1.

While history often points to October as a volatile month for equities, this year we saw the opposite in equity markets.

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Energy Crunch Adding to supply-chain disruptions – The price action in commodities stole the spotlight last week, contributing to the elevated volatility in equity and fixed-income markets.

We've seen similar episodes of rising rates, both earlier this year as well as during the last cycle when the Fed first announced its intentions to taper bond purchases.

With no shortage of headlines to worry about, volatility made a comeback last week after being dormant for most of the past six months.

Last week's release of the latest CPI report showed that inflation moderated again in August, which we'd attribute in part to the passing of the base effects (moving past the year-over-year comparisons to the depths of the crisis) as well as some...

The last couple of weeks have seen a flurry of downgrades by economists to third-quarter and 2021 GDP growth forecasts.