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Dear client, Next Monday instead of sending you a Weekly Report we will be hosting a live webcast at 10am EST, addressing the recent market moves and discussing the US equity market outlook.  Kind Regards, Anastasios Highlights Portfolio Strategy…

Highlights Wells Fargo’s path, before and after deregulation, has been similar to every other SIFI bank’s: It began by serving a single area in a single state, expanded within the state, and then pieced together its regional and national footprint via…

Dear Client, I will be discussing the economic and financial implications of the pandemic with my colleague Caroline Miller this Friday, March 27 at 8:00 AM EDT (12:00 PM GMT, 1:00 PM CET, 8:00 PM HKT). I hope you will be able to join us for this webcast…

Highlights Portfolio Strategy We have identified 20 reasons to start buying equities. We highlight positive catalysts that should underpin the equity market as the pandemic progresses. Investors with higher risk tolerance should continue to layer in…

HighlightsPortfolio Strategy“There is blood in the streets”. Investors with higher risk tolerance should be buying into this weakness and start to deploy long-term oriented capital. S&P 500 futures fell to 2394 which is a whopping 1000 points below the…

Highlights The S&P 500 is in a bear market, and a recession appears to be inevitable, … : The longest bull market in S&P 500 history succumbed last week to the Saudi-Russia oil war, the relentless drumbeat of spreading COVID-19 disruptions and…

Feature An analysis on Singapore is available below. The plunge in global risk assets is occurring at such a breathtaking pace that any economic analysis is pointless at this time. Economic growth forecasts have been reduced to moving targets. In our…

Highlights Bear markets occur in phases, and their narrative can mutate. What began as a selloff caused by the coronavirus outbreak could well mutate into an oil crash-led selloff, and then mutate again into a selloff due to policy omnipotence, or…

Highlights Duration: It is too soon to call the bottom in bond yields. To help make that call we will be looking for when: daily new COVID-19 infections reach zero, global growth indicators improve, US economic indicators worsen, technical indicators…

Highlights Financial markets are now fully priced for an economic downturn lasting one quarter… …but they are not fully priced for a recession. To go tactically long equities versus bonds requires a high conviction that the coronavirus induced downturn…