Active managers frequently use factor models to adjust portfolio exposure to different asset characteristics, managing risk and performance. Momentum has been a driving factor for equity returns in 2024.
The number of homes being sold each month remains near the lowest level of the past 22 years.
We will update the political charts every week until election day to show the latest odds. The data suggests this race remains too close to call.
A long-term look at interest rates
Some interesting charts from our recent posts
Today's topics include previewing tomorrow's payrolls report, coordinated global policy, loose financial conditions outweigh global tensions for now, oil supply & demand amidst Iranian tensions, asset allocation during Fed easing cycles, U.S. population shifting to the South & West, Dudley gives up on hard landing prediction, a $1.4 trillion Chinese bazooka?, and the dockworkers' strike.
Today's topics include talkin' no landing, will China's stimulus prove effective over the long run?, stop looking for a return to QE-era rates, crude oil's response to Middle East tensions, a line in the sand at $50 crude oil, the strategic petroleum reserve, a housing supercycle, and trading election volatility.
Chinese stocks benefit from stimulus, while gold's great year continues.
Today's topics include Powell pushes back on another 50 basis point cut in 2024, the $5 billion per day strike begins today, tracking the rally in Treasuries, the 60/40 portfolio, Chinese stock market continues powering forward, the Fed sets pace for other central bank actions, measuring liquidity, if the US is heading for recession...someone tell the consumer, and Japan economy gives BoJ path to more hikes