KLDW News and Press, Knowledge Leaders Developed World From 10/28/23

2023-10-28 06:00:00 ET Summary Higher macro and market volatility create opportunities for active trading, making high-quality hedge funds an important component of portfolios. Equity market neutral managers perform well in higher interest-rate regimes, as dispersion in equity mar...

2023-10-27 23:25:00 ET Summary After two quarters of strong equity performance, markets paused and reversed in the third quarter of the year. U.S. equities lost -3.2% and European equities lost -2.1%. Clearly, the change of tone at the U.S. Federal Reserve (“Fed”) pl...

2023-10-26 02:57:00 ET Summary During July and August, we observed higher-than-normal volatility in trading volumes across equities, fixed income, foreign exchange and derivatives. Credit volumes witnessed some strong highs and lows in the third quarter. Notably, July—a mon...

2023-10-20 02:55:00 ET Summary The Israel-Gaza war adds to already elevated uncertainty. A major escalation in the conflict would make a material difference to economic prospects and our forecasts. 2024 inflation forecasts have been revised upward again across most reg...

2023-10-18 05:35:00 ET Summary Years of aggressive monetary conditions have begun to bite, and global central banks appear near the end of their respective tightening cycles. Growth in Europe was weaker than the US, since households there had comparatively smaller savings to navig...

2023-10-17 09:15:00 ET Summary Global stocks didn’t experience the big sell-off many feared would occur last week, despite the rise in geopolitical risk since Hamas’ attack of Israel. There is still uncertainty about the path of monetary policy, with the focus on whe...

2023-10-13 00:30:00 ET Summary An inverted yield curve, with short-term debt yielding more than long-term bonds, benefits net interest income for households. Sticky wage inflation is likely to support core inflation longer unless there is some weakness in the labor market. The...

2023-10-10 11:15:00 ET Summary The World Trade Organization is finally catching on that global trade isn't growing like they thought it would. The WTO's report indicates global trade growth began slowing in the fourth quarter of 2022, which coincides with the timing of when trade ...

2023-10-09 23:57:00 ET Summary We see markets adjusting to the new regime. This is not a typical business cycle - structural mega forces are shaping the outlook now, in our view. The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield jumped to 16-year highs as markets eyed higher-for-longer interest rat...

2023-10-09 23:06:00 ET Summary Worldwide Purchasing Managers' Index averaged 47.9 in the third quarter, down from 48.8 in the second quarter, thereby indicating that trade conditions deteriorated at the fastest quarterly rate so far this year. Manufacturing new export orders fell ...