GBGR News and Press, Global Beta Momentum-Growth From 07/21/22

The corporate profits picture is better than expected so far. Money managers have not been this underweight stocks since March 2009, which was the bear market low during the Great Financial Crisis. A recession is not in the cards for 2022. Animal spirits returned to the ...

Are CTAs, managed futures, and trend followers getting crushed? Why has the SocGen Trend Index, approximating performance of trend followers, held up the past month and a half despite some rather violent commodity retracements? There is more going on in trend following than just commo...

The U.S. economy is at an elevated risk of recession. For the combined population of working American teens, we find that the employment level peaked at 5,660,000 in March 2022, falling 102,000 (or 1.8%) to 5,558,000 through June 2022. While we do see developing downtrends in port...

As we enter the second half of 2022, predictions of a possible recession range widely as the key drivers of inflation shift from goods to commodities and services, notably housing. For bond investors, the sharp rise in the rate landscape has had an outsize impact across the board, wit...

For decades, globalization has been on an inexorable rise, a key pillar fueling economic growth, driving inflation and yields down, bolstering corporate profit margins and supporting an upward climb in market valuations. Over the past few years, though, cracks have started to develop ...

Markets have entered a new regime characterized by higher levels of volatility and uncertainty as central banks try to rein in inflation. As recession fears rise, alternative data indicators reveal that markets may not be accurately pricing recession risk despite inflationary pressure...

Markets are undergoing a major shift. Central banks are focused more on inflation than liquidity. TD Wealth's Chief Wealth Strategist Brad Simpson explains. Brad Simpson, Chief Wealth Strategist with TD Wealth says that this is a "monumental" time for investors a...

We’re a couple of weeks into second-quarter earnings and all is well. The big inflation report for June is on the books, bad company news is flowing (mixed with good news), but stocks are holding up. Small caps may finally be getting their time in the spotlight. Yesterday, ...

The dollar is weakening, commodity prices are falling, and corporate profits are beating expectations again. Pessimism looks to have peaked, as professional money managers appear to have capitulated. Meanwhile, the technicals are turning positive in what could be the beginning of ...

June had seen global employment growth generally holding up well, with many firms continuing to rebuild workforces that had been affected by the pandemic. Key to the price outlook will be the supply situation. Like the US and eurozone, the UK is seeing a natural moderation of grow...