Recent history suggests that low—and even negative—yields don’t eliminate the offset to risk assets provided by government bonds.
Fed officials expect rates to remain near zero through 2023; the inflation goal is to now average 2% over time.
A brief monthly update on what's happening in the municipal bond market.
The coronavirus shock is accelerating structural trends in inequality, globalization, macro policy and sustainability. This is fundamentally reshaping the investment landscape and will be key to investor outcomes.
In recent years, global equities had slightly outpaced market forecasts for lower equity returns. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit the global economy, putting an end to the 10-year bull market. Equity markets have now started to recover, but the pandemic introduced and exacerbated challenges that we expect to subdue financial market returns over the next five years.
Another market high, with expectations for a “V”accine-shaped recovery.
The Federal Reserve has changed its inflation policy. Here’s what it may mean for markets.
Market update from BlackRock's municipal bond team.
The S&P 500 SPX and Nasdaq NASD have recently hit a series of fresh all-time highs and the Dow DJIA now sits less than 2% off of its all-time high which has many people wondering if the market is overbought and due for a correction.
Domestic equity markets have certainly shown a significant amount of movement thus far through 2020, with the S&P 500 Index SPX undergoing its swiftest decline from all-time highs in March, only to rally over the next few months to print new all-time highs at the beginning of September
Emerging markets overall felt a dose of optimism in August amid hopes for a COVID-19 vaccine, continued easy monetary policy globally and improving economic data pointing toward recovery. Our emerging markets equity team breaks down the key trends, news and events it has an eye on, and shares its latest market outlook.
Throughout the second half of 2020, a deterioration within the U.S. Dollar has been among the primary themes in focus, and understanding the Dollar’s impact on the positions in our portfolios is important.
September has historically been one of the weakest months for the S&P 500. The momentum factor, on the other hand, has historically been very strong in September.
Franco-Nevada is the world’s largest gold royalty and streaming company. This means the firm invests in gold and mines, but indirectly, the idea being to provide investors with exposure to gold prices and gold exploration while limiting the risks of investing directly in mining companies.
Join the Nasdaq Dorsey Wright (NDW) analyst team to discuss market developments through a technical lens and highlight areas to monitor in the coming weeks. Topics Include: Updated support levels for the S&P 500 as it hits new all-time highs, timely commentary on the commodities space as it continues to demonstrate strength, and material sector pivots as we near the month of September.
Why there’s still value in a value allocation.
The market continued to get narrower during the month of August. Looking at the Nasdaq US Mid/Large Cap Index, less than 30% of the constituents are outperforming the S&P 500 on a trailing 12 month basis. This is the lowest number we have ever seen since the beginning of the data set in 1989.
Global Business Mobility, defined as GDP-weighted Google geolocation data of workplace less residential mobility for the 24 largest economies in the world, representing over two-thirds of global GDP, remains in decline despite a recent uptick.
Latest insights on the disruptive effects of the pandemic and what those mean for credit.
As a result of the Federal Reserve’s efforts to shore up credit markets, the leveraged credit sector has delivered stellar performance since the lows in March.
The GMO Asset Allocation Team has released its latest 7-Year Asset Class Forecast through July 2020.
The Loomis Sayles Core Plus Fixed Income Team shares their thoughts on the potential for downgrades in the BBB debt market and dialing up portfolio risk.
In recent months, investment-grade debt has experienced a ferocious rally. What’s next?
Some emerging markets have been coping with the COVID-19 crisis better than others, and their economies are in different stages of recovery. Our emerging markets equity team highlights a few—and offers thoughts on why the pandemic has accelerated some existing fundamental and technological trends.
US household income has held steady, but only because of stimulus checks and enhanced unemployment benefits. As Congress debates the shape and scope of the next package, economic data show a clear need for more help sooner rather than later.
The Loomis Sayles Alpha Strategies Team answers three questions on corporate health, regime models and opportunities in emerging markets.
As an advisor, effectively communicating with your clients is an integral part of maintaining and growing your business. In the current era of working from home and social distancing this task has been even more difficult as many face-to-face interactions have been replaced by phone calls and Zoom meetings.
Today, we take a look at several of the best performing thematic ETFs of 2020.
With Monday's (7/20) intraday price action, the default Point and Figure chart of the S&P 500 Index (SPX) broke a spread quadruple top with a move to 3240 before moving higher to 3270 on Tuesday. This latest buy signal marks the third consecutive on the chart, confirming that demand is in control.
As we get to the end of July, we are entering the "heart" of the Q2 2020 earnings season, one of four such seasons we encounter on an annual basis. We typically find that earnings season produces some added volatility and potholes for investors to avoid.
In March, at the height of panic selling, investors pulled $326 billion from mutual funds and ETFs. Although it ended more than decade ago, the global financial crisis was the last real bear market.
A point we have increasingly been making is the self-mitigating nature of: (1) market returns and (2) capital market assumptions (“CMAs”). There is a demonstrable pattern of CMAs coming down after significant rallies in equity markets and going up after a decline.
First quarter 2020 saw the U.S. economy in a tailspin; second quarter pulled out of it … but now is the recovery stalling?
There is not much new to say since we last wrote to you on April 30, 2020. This might seem odd given the significant amount of changed patterns and uncertainty in our daily lives.
At this stage we might have to discard the V-shape recovery hypothesis and perhaps look to a Nike swoosh or W-shaped recovery for both the US and the rest of the world.
In March, the Loomis Sayles Global Fixed Income Team anticipated the economy could experience sluggish growth in the third quarter after a downturn in the second. Given the ongoing vagaries of quarantines and shutdowns, how has their growth outlook changed?
Join the Nasdaq Dorsey Wright (NDW) analyst team to discuss market developments through a technical lens and highlight areas to monitor in the coming weeks. Topics Include: Key points of resistance and support for the S&P 500, increased strength from the small cap growth camp, and sustained leadership from the generals.
The Nasdaq Dorsey Wright Technical Leaders Index suite is constructed using the Nasdaq Dorsey Wright’s Technical Leaders methodology, designed to identify companies that demonstrate powerful relative strength characteristics from within a given broad market universe or sector.
In a prospecting article from May, we looked at the relative performance of active and passively-managed funds during the volatile months of March and April, a period that theoretically should have favored active managers. With two quarters of 2020 officially behind us, we thought this would be an opportune time to take a look at the longer-term relative performance of these strategies.
Join the Nasdaq Dorsey Wright (NDW) analyst team to discuss market developments through a technical lens and highlight areas to monitor in the coming weeks. Topics this week include identifying recent breakouts for the S&P 500, assessing strength across asset classes, and highlighting emerging trends in the investible landscape.
At LPL Research, we know the stock market is forward-looking: It focuses on what’s happening today and what it sees on the path ahead. Much of the real-time economic data we follow—such as transportation activity, home sales, and jobless claims—is showing tangible evidence that economic activity—while still depressed—has begun to make a comeback.
In order to accelerate its presence in North America, TrackInsight has joined with Nasdaq to distribute its services to financial institutions and promote the usage of the platform amongst its network of investment professionals.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact economies across the globe as they emerge from lockdowns, including emerging markets.
The pandemic has delivered a global growth shock, but in doing so, it has accelerated the timeline for several mega trends that we have been actively investing in, such as productivity enhancement (robotics, automation, and software), e-commerce, electronic payments, and health care.
The pandemic has created an extraordinary risk/return trade-off for the shares of high quality U.S. banks. We believe there is the potential for decent returns for bank investors without improvement in the current environment, and the potential for enormous returns if the rate of change in the economy remains positive.
The protracted low-yield environment has left many investors with insufficient returns to meet their goals: how can credit help? Here we highlight where we see 5 credit opportunities.
One simple statistic can help high-yield investors gauge how their bonds may perform down the road.
Join the Nasdaq Dorsey Wright (NDW) analyst team to discuss market developments through a technical lens and highlight areas to monitor in the coming weeks.
