CRBN News and Press, iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target From 04/15/22

Strategies for navigating headwinds facing financial markets. Outlook for equities and fixed income. Why there's a strong case for Canadian equities. For further details see: A Strong Case For Canadian Equities This Year: TD Asset Management CIO

Due to the war in Ukraine and the resulting sanctions and embargoes - on top of the already interrupted supply chain, plus a new COVID outbreak in China - global trade is grinding down to a slow-motion “holding” action. As a result of these disruptions, PMIs all over the...

Last year’s headlines (COVID-19 and China) have been replaced with new concerns (Invasions and Inflation). Central bankers are pivoting from stabilizing growth to limiting inflation. Traditional bond and equity markets have come under pressure as they adjust to this new regime....

The UK government's Energy Security strategy offers new details on offshore wind and nuclear generation plans. But while the strategy is a necessary step forward in the UK's net-zero journey, it still leaves the UK reliant on natural gas in the meantime. This means Britain is vuln...

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has fully miscalculated the West’s response to his invasion of Ukraine. The US Federal Reserve (Fed) looks to have underestimated the underlying price pressures that have accumulated in the US economy. The developing new world order ...

Business costs are now rising at a rate not seen since 2008. Input cost inflation accelerated worldwide in both manufacturing and services. COVID-19 containment measures have been almost completely removed in the UK and US, though many restrictions persist in the eurozone. F...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has hit business confidence across much of the world, representing a bigger jolt to worldwide business optimism. Falls in confidence were widespread. In fact, while business confidence dropped sharply in March, trends in output were generally more resi...

The Ukraine invasion and resulting sanctions have led to a steep downturn in the Russian economy. Rising backlogs were most commonly reported in the US and across the Eurozone. Growth is proving encouragingly resilient, but the March survey data indicate that risks have tilted to ...

All key commodities required by the modern economy are finite in supply, and the cheapest and best have gone first. Many vital resources are fully recycled by nature. Decarbonizing the global economy at the same time as we have to become rapidly more protective of our limited reso...

Inflation expectations have kept the Federal Reserve center stage as they commenced their interest rate rising cycle in March. The war in Ukraine and Omicron’s spread in China impacted inflation and supply chains differently, but both delay supply chain normalization. Regar...