The Fed is set to deliver its first rate cut in nine months. What does the latest jobs revision and inflation data mean for markets and for your portfolio? Lauren Goodwin and Julia Hermann break it down in this week’s Market Matters from New York Life Investments.

Capital markets have priced out the worst-case scenario from U.S. policy uncertainty, but policy risks remain. Join Julia Hermann and Sarah Hirsch as they discuss the September Macro Pulse, examining what policy risks mean for inflation, the potential path for the Fed, and what it all means for investors.

From diverging interest rate cycles to policy uncertainty, the first half of 2025 shifted private markets. Lauren Goodwin and Sarah Hirsch share their outlook across private markets asset classes and highlight where investors may find resilience and long-term value.

The narrative of a global exit from U.S. assets has been loud this year, but the data tells a different story. In this week’s episode of Market Matters, Lauren Goodwin and Julia Hermann explain why investor demand remains strong and what central bank flows reveal.

Continuing a four-part series on debt sustainability: Europe has a strong legacy of fiscal discipline, but often at the cost of productive investment. Lauren Goodwin and Julia Hermann host Florence Pisani, Chief Economist of Candriam, and Nicolas Jullien, Global Head of Fixed Income at Candriam, to discuss the future of debt sustainability in Europe.

The team’s series on sovereign debt sustainability continues, this week with a focus on China. Julia Hermann hosts Valentina Chen, Head and Portfolio Manager of the Emerging Market Debt team at MacKay Shields, to discuss how China’s systemic over-leverage influences everything from the country’s economic business model, to the nature and scope of investment opportunities in Chinese credit.

Julia Hermann hosts Steven Friedman, Managing Director and Senior Macroeconomist at MacKay Shields, for a special recording of Market Matters on the 34th floor of the New York Life building in Manhattan. Join Julia and Steve for a deep dive into the sustainability – or lack thereof – of public debt in the United States. Can the U.S. keep up its pace of spending? What does the Big Beautiful Bill mean for the debt trajectory? Are interest payments spiraling out of control? We answer these questions and more on this week’s episode.

Join Lauren Goodwin and Julia Hermann for a special recording of Market Matters, on the 34th floor of the New York Life building in Manhattan. Your hosts will launch the team’s latest megatrend research on global debt sustainability: can major economies keep up all this spending? And what do higher sovereign debt levels mean for asset allocation?