Rotating to safety in early September
Ahead of a nine-day window encompassing policy meeting by the European Central Bank, US Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan, investors steered another...
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Fasten seatbelt sign goes on in early September
Global asset markets hit a speed bump coming into August. They hit another during the first week of September as the tires on the investment cases...
All goldilocks and no bears in late August
The Paris Summer Olympics ended with the US and China occupying first and second position in the medal standings. They occupied the same positions...
Positioning for the US rate cut bounce
With only a few key data points standing between now and the Federal Reserve’s September meeting, expectations of a first cut in US interest rates...
Investors back in the pre-correction saddle
Two weeks after global markets corrected sharply, fund flows have regained much of their previous shape.
Equity investors see the opportunities, fixed income investors the risks
August started with a major market correction triggered by shifting dynamics in the yen carry trade and some mediocre US labor market data. On...
Using EPFR and CEIC data to analyze the August 2024 correction
Two major central bank interest rate decisions, more earnings reports from ‘Magnificent Seven’ companies and a spike in the violence wracking the...
Growth on the back burner in late July
Two major central bank interest rate decisions, more earnings reports from ‘Magnificent Seven’ companies and a spike in the violence wracking the...
The future? Profitable, but not so green
US politics, Chinese economic policy making and mixed second quarter corporate earnings moved asset markets in multiple directions going into the...
Fund flows prove resilient as noise levels rise
During WWII, civilians were constantly reminded that “loose lips sink ships.” In early 3Q24, it appeared that loose lips can also sink chips as...
Risk appetite climbs in early July
With US inflation behaving itself, French and British elections in the rearview mirror and another corporate earnings season that is expected to...
At the halfway point, glass half full
Investors spent the first few days of the third quarter trying to link the potential outcomes of snap elections in the UK and France, and shifts in...
First outflow in 10 weeks for US Equity Funds
Last week, investors homed in on recent data showing labor markets easing and price growth moderating and boosted flows to US Equity and Bond Funds....
Investors choose to follow the data
Although the US Federal Reserve only sees one interest rate cut in the second half of 2024, investors opted during the third week of June to focus...
Politics snapping at Europe’s heels
The aftershocks of the European Parliamentary elections continued to reverberate during the second week of June, with French leader Emmanuel Macron...