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BCA Chief Strategists, Mathieu Savary, Roukaya Ibrahim, and Noah Weisberger looked at the latest developments in the Strait of Hormuz and the implications for global financial markets.
Topics discussed:
- The Strait of Hormuz remains closed, and energy markets are tightening again. Is the shock being underpriced?
- What would a sustained disruption mean for the global growth–inflation trade-off? Is stagflation risk creeping back?
- Within commodities, where is the real asymmetry now? What’s crowded, and what still offers upside?
- Can strategic reserve releases truly cap the rally, or do they just delay the adjustment?
- Equities have remained resilient. Are markets looking through the shock, or misreading it?
- Where is the tipping point: how much further can oil rise before equities reprice meaningfully?
- If crude continues higher, which sectors and factors offer the most convex exposure, not just beta?
- If flows normalize and oil rolls over, where does leadership rotate, and how quickly?
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US Equity Strategy Webcast Series: Noah Holds Barred - Episode 2
Noah and Jason discussed:
- What earnings, revisions and expectations are telling us now
- The latest read on Tech revenues, capex, and demand for AI
- Why we are long Software
- The outlook for margins: Macro headwinds vs. AI
- Key feedback and pushback from 32 client meetings & 34 Lunch and Dinner attendees:
- The impact of AI IPOs, consumer spending trends, Utilities underweight
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Our Global Asset Allocation strategists upgrade equities to overweight at the expense of cash, moving EU equities from overweight to underweight while upgrading the US to neutral. Our colleagues argue AI remains the central market thesis despite the oil shock. Recent hyperscaler results reinforce th...
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The April Conference Board survey beat estimates, with both current conditions and expectations improving. Consumer confidence rose to 92.8 from 92.2, when consensus expected a pullback. Consumers’ assessment of their present situation was mostly flat after positive revisions to the prior month, whi...
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Our DM ex. US and GeoMacro strategists argue the dollar remains dominant but no longer holds a monopoly on reserve functions. The global monetary order is transitioning away from dollar dominance toward a regime with multiple reserve anchors. The dollar’s three core roles (international settlement, ...
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The April flash PMIs show that the global energy shock is feeding through unevenly, with sharper price pressures outside the US. Longer delivery times were widespread across developed markets, and input prices rose. One of our most timely tools for tracking inflation is our price pressure index, whi...
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Macro headlines may have shifted attention away from Private Markets, but the underlying risks remain. We revisit the Private Credit-Software cracks we flagged early and explain why, despite the noise, the structural story is just getting started.
- How did we get here?
- Is Software making or breaking Private Credit's diversification case?
- Systemic risk or a normal credit cycle?
- How are our 2024 calls on Distressed versus Buyouts playing out?
- Where are the most overlooked opportunities across Private (and Public) Markets right now?
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US Equity Strategy Webcast Series: Noah Holds Barred - Episode 1
Noah and Jason discussed:
- The foundations of our constructive outlook and 7700 year-end S&P 500 target
- The capex outlook and its implications
- Do valuations represent a meaningful constraint?
- Tensions and opportunities between market pricing and the state of the cycle
- What a US recession could mean for equities
- Middle East tensions: potential paths to resolution and market implications
- Sector positioning for 2026
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Our GeoMacro strategists argue that prevailing market narratives around the Gulf conflict rest on three flawed assumptions. First, that the UAE’s role as a financial hub is at risk; second, that Iran can sustain a closure of the Strait of Hormuz; and third, that the conflict is primarily about press...
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European sentiment plunged in March, reflecting vulnerability to higher energy prices. The ZEW expectations index fell sharply to -8.5 from 39.4 at the Euro Area level and to -0.5 from 58.3 in Germany. German current conditions were better than estimates but remain deeply pessimistic at -62.9. The d...
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