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2025-07-11 08:57:00 ET By David Blanchett, PhD, CFA, CFP and Jeremy Stempien Inflation expectations are skyrocketing. The University of Michigan Survey of Consumers [1] shows that median forecasts jumped to 6.5% in April from 3.3% in January, and professional forecasters hav...

2025-07-07 07:01:00 ET By Jeff Blazek, CFA and Erik L. Knutzen, CFA, CAIA Despite ongoing policy uncertainty and tariff-related volatility, we are cautiously optimistic thanks to resilient economic fundamentals, broadening equity market performance, and the potential for pro-gro...

2025-07-02 04:50:00 ET A Bumpy Road Higher The path of least resistance entering the second half of the year would be to say risk-on, with equity markets trending higher from here. But we can’t forget a timeless piece of strategic wisdom: “Hope is not a strategy.ȁ...

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2025-06-11 08:17:00 ET Nuclear Energy and Uranium Policy momentum drove uranium investments in May, with double-barreled U.S. policy actions in the form of a tax bill and multiple executive orders. Meanwhile, Europe pivots away from its anti-nuclear agenda. ... Read th...

2025-06-02 04:07:00 ET Summary In this brief market report, we look at the various asset classes, sectors, equity categories, ETFs, and stocks that moved the market higher and those that moved lower. Last week, the Mag 7 led the market higher, bringing the NASDAQ and Large Caps al...

2025-05-20 08:19:00 ET Summary Trade tensions and U.S. tariffs present risks to copper's near-term stability, but the long-term outlook for the copper market remains resilient. Despite short-term headwinds, precious metals' role as a hedge against economic and geopolitical uncerta...

2025-05-18 04:42:00 ET Summary Are commodities giving us a clearer read on the economy than the stock market? Darrell Fletcher shares what investors aren’t seeing beneath the surface of energy, metals, and macro markets. What kind of year has this been for commodities inves...

2025-05-13 06:00:00 ET Summary We expect that a 1-2 year or perhaps even longer upward trend in commodity prices will begin this year. Gold bull markets begin and are sustained by monetary and governance factors. We expect that a broad upward trend in commodity prices will beg...

2025-04-30 09:27:00 ET Summary We think there’s a very real possibility that an equity bear market could unfold in parallel with a commodity bull market. It would be very different from anything that happened over the past three decades, a period during which the commodity ...