Report
New Fed Chair, Kevin Warsh, is betting that an AI-driven productivity acceleration will get the Fed out of jail for persistently missing its 2 percent inflation target. But history informs us that while new technology adoption is exponential, total productivity growth is not. So, if Warsh’s bet goes...
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Webcast Replay
US Equity Strategy Webcast Series: Noah Holds Barred - Episode 2
Noah and Jason discussed:
- What earnings, revisions and expectations are telling us now
- The latest read on Tech revenues, capex, and demand for AI
- Why we are long Software
- The outlook for margins: Macro headwinds vs. AI
- Key feedback and pushback from 32 client meetings & 34 Lunch and Dinner attendees:
- The impact of AI IPOs, consumer spending trends, Utilities underweight
Report
The tenuous ceasefire holds, with the "new geopolitical equilibrium scenario" remaining in place. Enough crude trickles through Hormuz to avert a global recession, but not to alleviate building inflationary pressures, a product of a complicated geomacro context that is not transitory. The Fed will l...
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Insight
Our Global Asset Allocation strategists upgrade equities to overweight at the expense of cash, moving EU equities from overweight to underweight while upgrading the US to neutral. Our colleagues argue AI remains the central market thesis despite the oil shock. Recent hyperscaler results reinforce th...
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Insight
The April Conference Board survey beat estimates, with both current conditions and expectations improving. Consumer confidence rose to 92.8 from 92.2, when consensus expected a pullback. Consumers’ assessment of their present situation was mostly flat after positive revisions to the prior month, whi...
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