THREAT: Brent oil back over $115/barrel, with OPEC+ to keep supply tight, Russian sanctions extended, and China growth fears easing. Futures are bullishly heavily backwardated....

The Fed response: We don’t think a ‘Fed put’, of measures to limit the equity market decline, exists today or at these levels. The tightening of financial conditions is doing much...

BIG QUESTION: Whether we see an economic slowdown or recession is the key question for the $25 trillion US economy and global markets. A slowdown would leave corporate profits...

IDEA: Scandinavian stock markets have a long-term outperformance record (see chart), with a Nordic market the top developed world performer 7 of the past 15 years. This punches...

CRACKS: US housing is its least affordable in forty years, per our US housing ‘misery’ index (see chart). This combines the 20% surge in average house prices with over decade high...

FEARS: Food fears are running high, with wheat 20% total global calories, and prices up 40% (WEAT) this year. Many see the food price shock as more significant than the oil spike,...

LONG HAUL: Renewables stocks saw a short green silver-lining from the Ukraine crisis, with surging oil incentivizing renewable transition and refocus on energy security. But...

REBOUND: Global travel is rebounding on pent-up demand, lower virus cases and restrictions, and is a relative haven to current market volatility. This may drive ‘the biggest...

FACEBOOK: Meta (FB) publicly listed as Facebook 10-years ago today in the 3rd largest IPO in US history. The ten-fold price surge from its $38 IPO price took it to a 2021 peak...

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