Insights

BCA Research’s Global Investment Strategy service remained tactically bullish on stocks for most of 2023, but shifted to neutral at the start of 2024, and downgraded stocks to underweight in late June. Its latest report fleshes out the team’s thinking in Q&A format. Our Global Investment co...

BCA Research has been writing extensively on how consumption fueled by excess savings has been propping up the US economy and prevented a recession in 2023. Now, many estimates of pandemic-era excess savings show that they have run out. While consumption is still robust, with June retail sales easil...

According to BCA Research’s Geopolitical Strategy service, Trump’s agenda is structurally inflationary and would eventually be needed to be discounted by markets, if he wins. Most retail investors – and many clients – seem to believe that Trump will win and the stock market will boom. Opinion p...

According to BCA Research’s Private Markets & Alternatives service, Artificial Intelligence is old news. Given such, it is not prime for Early-Stage Venture Capital (VC) investing. While everyone is distracted with AI, investors should look to Aerospace & Space Technology. Arguably...

According to BCA Research’s Commodity & Energy Strategy service, commodity prices typically rally toward the end of the business cycle. In the past six recessions, the S&P 500 peaked before commodity prices. While there is significant variability across recessions, on average, the S&amp...