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Where’s the Diversification Opportunity? Maybe Nowhere
August 6, 2018
Investors are unprepared for market shocks given a lack of negative correlated returns or volatility across major asset classes.
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Equity and UST Volatility Re-align, Causing Headaches for Asset...
July 27, 2018
Risks behind equities and sovereigns have reconnected, making the lives of asset allocators that much more difficult. Unexpected events have potential to damage nearly all asset classes in a similar fashion. Our belief is investors are aligning...
Markets
What’s Great for Technology Isn’t So Great for the Rest
July 26, 2018
Technology continuing to gobble up productivity and profit margin gains remains a central reason for low U.S. Treasury term premiums. Additionally, the yield curve is more apt to invert sooner than past historical instances given this weight on...
Markets
U.S. High Yield – Waiting for the Trifecta
July 25, 2018
Correctly timing a credit and coinciding stock market blow-up is essentially an impossibility. We do see indicators beginning to flash red, but the traditional cycle between high yield OAS versus the yield curve has yet to fully play out....
Markets
Declining Interest in Borrowing a Threat to Growth, U.S. Dollar
July 25, 2018
The accelerating decline in search interest for borrowing and banking is a potential threat to the pace of economic growth in the U.S.
Markets
U.S. Real and Nominal Yield Curves Bound to Converge
July 24, 2018
The U.S. real yield curve has inverted, but is expected to converge (i.e. steepen) back in line with the nominal. Short-end real yields will be weighed down by the likely weakening in flexible prices. On the flip side, longer-end yields will remain...
Markets
Ruh-roh, Market Risks are Realigning with U.S. Treasury Volatility
July 23, 2018
Risks across asset classes are again aligning with U.S. Treasury volatility, meaning diversification will be difficult heading into the fall of 2018. The ECB, not recent talk of tightening by the BoJ, remains the world's most influential player. We...
Markets
Home Improvement Thriving as Housing Market Cools
July 23, 2018
A cool housing market and hot temperatures are driving outperformance for home improvement retailers.
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Weekly Digest For July 9 – July 13
July 14, 2018
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Markets
Real Yields Trapped by Languishing Productivity and Wage Growth
June 13, 2018
Real yields, term premium, and implied volatility have little reason to appreciably rise until this conundrum of low productivity and wage growth is solved. U.S. 10-year real yields are up against range highs in place since September, which we...
Currencies
U.S. Dollar Outlook Improving
June 13, 2018
The outlook for the U.S. dollar against developed market peers is mixed, but we see upside against the euro and yen.
Markets
Wage Growth MIA, Blame Technology
June 12, 2018
Small business surveys for compensation are at all-time highs, but real wage growth has failed to follow through. Technology is the latent factor anchoring core inflation and wages. The more profit margin improvements are eaten up by technology, the...