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Summary China’s activity surveys point to a weak start to Q4. Can further easing change the growth trajectory if the zero-COVID policy remains in place? China’s upside growth surprises do not seem to last. A better-than-expected Q3 GDP print was swiftly followed by t...

Summary Central banks across the globe are not in lock step with the U.S. Fed. Could this limit what the Fed could do? Will the Fed start signaling a less hawkist direction for rates? Finding bright spots in the fixed income market. Bank of Canada raised overnight ...

Summary With this month's hike, the Federal Reserve would have raised overnight rates by 300 bp while doubling the pace that its balance sheet is shrinking over the past 100 days. The JPMorgan Emerging Market Currency Index stabilized in October after falling by nearly 8.5% in the...

Summary Our main takeaway from China’s 20th Party Congress is the emphasis on security, implying further self-sufficiency—and potential investment opportunity—in the food, energy and technology sectors. At the time of writing, Chinese stocks have regained most...

Summary China is taking measures to support its property market, so declines are likely to ease—and even if they don’t, we’re not looking at a subprime crisis. A proactive Chinese invasion of Taiwan is a low-probability event in our view, at least over the nea...

Summary The outlook on China stimulus. Bank of Canada slows pace of rate hikes. Q3 earnings season update. On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Chief Investment Strategist for North America, Paul Eitelman, and Investment Strategy Analyst BeiChen Lin discus...

Summary Will the fourth 75 basis-point rate hike be the last major rise before the Fed downshifts in December? Next week’s FOMC decision is widely expecting a unanimous vote for one last major rate increase. Inflation has hit double-digits and remains the ECB’s numbe...

Summary With inflationary pressures and recessionary fears remaining top-of-mind, equity managers see no short-term end to the bumpy ride in markets. One of the key risks cited by equity managers in our third-quarter report is the possibility of inflation remaining stuck at high l...

Summary Here are my big three for investors to consider in the fourth quarter of 2022: recessionary fears, high inflation, and slowing growth. As we analyze the risk of recession in the United States, we must consider whether the country can shift into a more normal expansion. ...

Summary We can’t prevent the government or the Fed from implementing inflationary policies, so we might as well get used to inflation and learn to profit from it. There are ways to profit from inflation without selling stocks. Not only can we buy shares of fossil fuel compa...