Developed Countries

The market has been held hostage by surging rates. Zombie companies are “alive” and are multiplying – they are highly sensitive to surging borrowing costs. Underweight Utilities to reduce portfolio duration. Maintain neutral positioning of Basic Materials but take a granular approach to allocations within the sector.

Households’ excess pandemic savings will eventually run out, but we continue to disagree with the widespread view that they’re already gone or entirely in the hands of the wealthy. Consumers’ demise continues to be greatly exaggerated.

European auto stocks are cheap, but even if European carmakers can rise to the challenge created by Chinese EVs, shareholders will suffer.

An update to our US bond strategy following this morning’s employment report.

In this report, we explore some trading opportunities after a volatile few weeks for FX markets.