When we began 2024, six interest rate cuts were expected. But with stickier-than-expected inflation and strong job growth, markets significantly lowered those expectations. As a result, rising interest rates created headwinds for rate-sensitive assets, although a resilient economy helped lower-credit-quality parts of the fixed income market (e.g., high-yield and bank loans) outperform their higher-credit-quality counterparts.
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