Archive for category: Research Reports

Cross-asset Strategy: While the geopolitical crisis and policy tightening are overhangs, risk assets have a number of supports that...

The equity markets are on a 3-week winning streak, which is hard to accept given the quarter still ended...

WAR is stressing global supply chains, inflation rises yet the S&P 500 went RISK-ON over the last two weeks!...

With the Fed’s hawkish pivot, the first part half of our long standing narrative of Fire and Ice has...

Midterm election years are difficult trading years, but reliably strong investing years, as they setup the compounding effect. More...

“The market indexes may have bottomed, but keep in mind, making a low, forming a bottom and reaching the...

Macro Strategy—No Respite For The Weary: After two years of a pandemic, the world now has to deal with...

Every time the market falls a little, we worry it’s going to fall a lot.  ~Michael Batnick When it...

Cross-Asset Strategy: As geopolitical risks intensified over the past month, our OWs in Commodities and Energy stocks outperformed, while...

“Bear markets do not end until: 1) sellers have panicked; and 2) buyers are panicked to buy again.” ~The...

Powell made it clear the Fed will do whatever is necessary to maintain price stability which means tighter financial...

This trading week was probably highly frustrating for a great many traders and investors alike. For anyone trying to...

“When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping” is true for investors. Income-oriented investors have always been advised...

Under a framework of knowns and unknowns, the world is a confusing place right now with the Russian invasion...

The market is testing investors and traders alike. That is what the market tends to do during corrections; it...

The world is now forced into the calculating of a new reality, one that may not be easily compared...

Fear and uncertainty building short-term but so many resolved near term In the first two months of 2022, a...

This past trading week was met with more disappointment for the bulls, as a usually strong February monthly Options...

Part of successful investing is the ability to be able to forsake instant gratification and embrace delayed gratification! Not...

With the focus on inflation and the Fed now an obsession, it’s time to pivot to growth and how...

Merrill Lynch: Macro Risk Macro Strategy—Risky Business (Cycle): We believe the probability of a recession this year is low...

“The S&P 500 has not bottomed in the months of January – May when it has finished the year...

We continue to be more focused on what growth is going to do rather than rates and believe investors...

While certain individual stocks demonstrated massive downside moves this past week, the indices managed a consecutive weekly gain. In...