RODM News and Press, Hartford Multifactor Developed Markets From 08/17/23

2023-08-17 13:50:00 ET Summary Earnings have been stagnating, and this past quarter, they came in better than feared. Heading into this season, I was paying very close attention to if companies are able to keep and maybe even grow their margins, and the answer is yes. Looking ...

2023-08-07 18:55:00 ET Summary The stock market was down a little over 2% last week in what may be the start of a larger correction. In the 1970 recession, rates rose right until the onset of recession and hit a new high for that cycle during the recession. The employment repo...

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...

2023-07-20 01:45:00 ET Summary tronger global economic growth in 2023 has so far been spurred by resurgent post-pandemic spending on services such as travel and tourism. Manufacturing output slipped into decline in June, as a short-term production boost from improved supply availa...

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...

2023-07-15 02:20:00 ET Summary We wrap up our mid-year review of recent asset price trends with a look at non-US equities. Non-US equities have certainly had periods of outperformance, including – for a very brief while – earlier this year. For most of January, i...

2023-07-11 00:45:00 ET Summary Global equity markets have had a very strong first half of the year, but it’s pretty unusual times because on the one hand, equities are contending with a pretty difficult macro backdrop. We’ve still got high inflation. We’ve got...

2023-06-24 23:55:00 ET Summary We think the macro factor that still matters most, at least for now, is inflation, notwithstanding how important these other elements may turn out to be. Emerging markets have performed well year to date despite continued rate hikes from the Fed, reg...

2023-06-20 09:45:00 ET Summary Sticky inflation is leading major central banks to keep policy tight. We prefer emerging market debt as policy loosens and like short-dated bonds for income. Developed market short-term bond yields jumped after central banks signaled more rate hikes ...

2023-06-12 10:40:00 ET Summary BlackRock investment leaders at our Outlook Forum agreed the new regime is playing out. They eye assets that price that in and benefit from structural trends. Developed market (DM) stocks ticked up last week, led by U.S. tech. Bond yields rose as mar...