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2023-06-02 21:30:00 ET Summary Cooler heads prevail over debt ceiling but are there broader implications? Recession vs resilience: Finding opportunities in a cautious market. Why fixed income still may provide opportunities for investors. The bill to rais...

2023-05-17 23:45:00 ET Summary So far in 2023, commodities have generally not delivered for investors. Commodities could remain risky given near-term Fed actions and investor sentiment. We believe there are several reasons why the asset class could pick up steam from here. ...

2023-05-16 23:05:00 ET Summary The Federal Reserve’s latest 0.25% interest rate hike has likely capped one of its most aggressive policy-tightening cycles in 40 years. Core inflation, which excludes the more volatile energy and food prices, remains historically high, but ha...

2023-05-01 18:45:00 ET Summary The S&P GSCI fell 0.8% in April as the Fed’s preferred measure of inflation, PCE, fell slightly on a year-over-year basis to 4.6%. Within the broad S&P GSCI benchmark, several commodity sectors declined, with the S&P GSCI Industria...

2023-04-05 00:41:00 ET Summary Why OPEC's production cut could impact broader markets. An unexpected cut in oil production just made the Fed's job more complicated. Is Commercial real estate the next shoe to drop for banks? The surprise OPEC+ production cut i...

2023-04-04 02:30:00 ET Summary Markets are liquidity junkies and repeatedly anticipate that central banks will pause and return to easing credit conditions. Equities historically don’t bottom until after a recession is recognized and central banks near the end of easing eff...

2023-03-28 12:56:00 ET Summary In this article, I will attempt to present a broad guide for each major asset class - stocks, bonds, commodities and precious metals - and how investors should be looking to allocate to each over the next six to 12 months. Pension funds and instituti...

2023-03-24 16:44:00 ET Summary Supply/demand outlook combined with relatively high yields are creating attractive opportunities for natural resource investors, but potential risks stemming from Russia still need to be watched. We really have to consider whether West is going into ...

2023-03-15 11:30:00 ET Summary All over the world, people are moving cash out of low-yielding bank accounts and into higher-yielding deposits. Shareholder equity and retained earnings (tier-one capital) are the primary funding source for banks. Losses in the sector manifest in...

2023-03-07 07:02:00 ET Summary Broad-based commodity cycles have typically had a major demand driver. In the 1970s, it was a weak U.S. dollar, and in the early 2000s it was Chinese growth. With potential growth in real GDP constrained by demographics, the focus is on supply constr...