GEOPOLITICS: Oil markets have started to price a small geopolitical risk premium, taking Brent above $90, but still below September highs. Rising prices are a double market...

UNCERTAINTY: Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel and the risk of escalation has stoked economic and geopolitical uncertainty. This risks sapping both investor and company...

CATALYSTS: Bitcoin (BTC) briefly spiked 10% yesterday on report a spot bitcoin ETF had been approved. This was premature but illustrates the sensitivity of the asset class to any...

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THREAT: High oil prices have been a double headwind for markets. With this year’s higher gasoline prices a $100 billion extra ‘tax’ on the US consumer, and threatening to boost...

STRIKE: It’s day 21 of the slowly escalating UAW US auto strike. With sides seemingly inching toward a 20-30% pay raise deal. Affordable with wages 6% of a car's value, profit...

BEHAVIOR: Investors are often assumed to be fully rational, and markets to have efficiently priced everything. Market reality and the rise of behavioral economics argues it's more...

Over most of the last 15 years, it has been hard to generate attractive investment returns from fixed-income securities or “bonds” as they are often called. Over this period, bond...

CASH: Cash is yielding the most in fifteen years. This has driven $1 trillion inflows into US money market funds this year. This is money that otherwise would have stayed as bank...

OUTLOOK: We expect the markets fever to break in October. As multiple macro ‘wall of worry’ pressures start to ease and seasonality turns positive. Investors had a miserable...