JHML News and Press, John Hancock Multifactor Large Cap From 10/05/21

Taking a look at how the expected Q3 ’21 sector revenue growth rates have changed since mid-August ’21 or the unofficial end of Q2 ’21 earnings season. Per Bespoke’s research, the S&P 500 has now reached “extremely oversold” levels, worse ...

The US federal government faces another debt ceiling drama this month. An overview of why the debt ceiling exists and what happens if US Treasuries are defaulted on. A look at the controversial $1 trillion platinum coin loophole that potentially allows the Treasury Department to g...

We view the U.S. Treasury yield spike as resolving a disconnect between the powerful restart and lower yields in recent months, and stay tactically pro-risk. U.S. 10-year yields jumped to the highest level in three months. Markets are prone to volatility, but ultimately we see yields ...

Most of the market “data” everyone obsesses about is just noise, especially when it comes to economic data. We just finished another quarter during which a lot of things were supposedly newsworthy but somehow produced almost nothing in the way of major market movements. ...

Global Market Index is useful as a starting point for research on asset allocation and portfolio design. Predictions for the market components are subject to greater uncertainty compared with aggregating forecasts, a process that may cancel out some of the errors through time. Com...

Global Private Equity is in the lead, up 19.7% after its 2020 gain of 12.5%. Emerging Markets are the laggard with a YTD gain of just 1.5%. Commodities have come on strong this year after losing -7.8% last year. US REITs have rebounded strongly from last year's -4.7% decline. High...

The data shows that nearly 40% of the time, two months of positive performance gets followed by at least one month of negative performance. The demand for performance above what is required to reach our goals requires an exponential increase in risk. Over the next decade, there is...

The summer saw some reversal of the “reflation trade,” a strong uptrend by economically sensitive stocks that kicked off with vaccine announcements last November. Fears centered on the Delta variant and its potential economic impacts. Concerns that earnings, valuations a...

Too many investors retain a negative bias of the market because of news or fundamentals upon which they solely focus. The market has struck an important support region. As long as this support holds, I am looking next to the 4900-5000SPX region. For further details see: ...

Risks to US economic recovery are growing as inflation pressures intensify. The German election was won narrowly by the SPD, as expected, but coalition talks will take some time. Key for the UK at the moment is interest rate expectations with the market’s pricing in three b...