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Markets have rallied on hopes for an economic recovery as coronavirus-imposed lockdowns are eased across the globe. The rebound has been helped by oversold investor sentiment, but with sentiment back to neutral, so too is our strategists' market outlook . Key market themes The market re...

The world's largest developed economies showed a further marked easing in the rate of decline in June amid another relaxation of restrictions designed to control the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Although output fell across the 'G4' developed economies, according to provisional...

Covered in the video is the outlook for US vs. Global ex-US Equities, specifically: -Valuations: where things sit vs. history -Valuations: the difference between the US vs. the rest of the world -Relative price performance: long-term cycles and an overdue turn -Longer-term capital ma...

By Jill Mislinski All eight indexes on our world watch list posted losses through June 22, 2020. The top performer is China's Shanghai with a loss of 2.78%. Our own S&P 500 is in second with a loss of 3.50% and in third is Tokyo's Nikkei 225 with a loss of 5.15%. Coming in last is Fran...

By Philip Lawlor, head of Global Markets Research Investors have decisively turned their sights to 2021 recovery prospects, even as consensus 2020 EPS forecasts have continued their steep downhill slide. Signs that the negative revision cycle may be slowing offer a positive note. As the ...

This post follows up on " What Determines When a Recession is Recession ?" which pointed out some drawbacks of defining a recession by two negative quarters of growth. In some countries there is another, more fundamental, basis for questioning the two-quarter rule for determining reces...

Deficits are rising across the developed world as governments aggressively loosen their purse strings in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. But what are the ramifications of all this debt? Our K2 Advisors team weighs in on the longer-term unintended consequences for governments that maintain ...

All signs point to the second-quarter real GDP plunge in the US and European economies being one for the records - with double-digit quarter-on-quarter (q/q) declines in the United States, eurozone, and the United Kingdom. Anticipating that growth will return in the third quarter in the Americ...

By Gita Gopinath, Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department at IMF The Great Lockdown is expected to play out in three phases, first as countries enter the lockdown, then as they exit, and finally as they escape the lockdown when there is a medical solution to the pandemi...

The following is an extract from IHS Markit's monthly PMI overview presentation. For the full report, please look at the bottom of the article. Global business activity contracted sharply in May, according to the latest PMI business survey data, dropping for a fourth successive month. Encour...