KLDW News and Press, Knowledge Leaders Developed World From 07/31/23

2023-07-31 10:30:00 ET Summary Major central banks tightened policy last week, including unexpectedly in Japan. We see the potential for rising Japanese bond yields to pull global yields higher. The Bank of Japan tweaked its yield cap, sending local yields to a nine-year high. Dev...

2023-07-28 00:00:00 ET Summary The current environment looks favorable for equity market neutral, global macro and insurance-linked securities, according to K2 Advisors. Single stock correlations are low on a historical basis, suggesting a favorable environment for equity market-n...

2023-07-26 06:05:00 ET Summary While S&P Global Market Intelligence's global real GDP growth forecast for 2023 is unchanged at 2.4%, this masks regional divergence. From a cycle high of over 8.0% in September 2022, global consumer price inflation has fallen to an estimated 4.7...

2023-07-26 03:37:00 ET Summary Economic activity in the first quarter of the year proved resilient, despite the challenging environment, amid surprisingly strong labor markets. The global tightening of monetary policy has brought policy rates into contractionary territory. Lab...

2023-07-26 01:56:00 ET Summary In 2022, North America and Western Europe scored highest on the democracy index, and Middle East and Africa scored the lowest. Much of Western Europe, Australia & New Zealand and Canada/United States fall into the least corrupt category, but corr...

2023-07-25 11:15:00 ET Summary Market momentum dominated headlines in the United States in Q2, largely driven by mega-cap technology amid enthusiasm around AI. While US outperformance was narrowly led by a handful of stocks, performance outside the US was broader, particularly in ...

2023-07-25 08:30:00 ET Summary Markets have a distinct Goldilocks feel about them at the moment. This is a story about two trends; easing inflation and economies which are, well… neither too hot nor too cold. The economic backdrop to the downshift in inflation pressures rem...

2023-07-19 20:55:00 ET Summary Modern Portfolio Theory focuses on assembling the optimal group of assets to achieve the best return per unit of risk. Diversification works well because it blends short and long duration instruments thereby reducing the overall average duration. ...

2023-07-18 08:00:00 ET Summary Concerns about the debt of overexposed sectors of U.S. commercial real estate have grown. Investors might be switching their attention from concerns about inflation and monetary policy to optimism about nominal growth. Downward pressure could com...

2023-07-17 19:47:00 ET Summary The worldwide Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) surveys compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence indicated a sixteenth monthly fall in export orders for goods and services at the end of the second quarter. In May, the seasonally adjusted PMI New...