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Maintain Trades Ahead Of The BoC

In this insight, we look at whether the recent data justifies a shift by the BoC, and some potential trades.

Foreign Exchange Strategy by Chester Ntonifor
Eurozone Sentiment: A Self-Defeating Upswing?
The European Commission's preliminary release for Consumer Confidence painted a murky picture for consumer sentiment on Monday. The headline print of -17.9 was largely unchanged from the previous month's print of -17.8, but beat expectations of -18.3.…
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US Equal Weighted Equities Have Given Up YTD Gains
This year's rally in US equities has for the most part been narrow in breadth. The 19.5% increase in the S&P 500's price index in the first seven months of the year exceeds the equal weighted index's 9.5% gain over the same period. Since then, the S&P…
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What The US Banks See
BCA Research’s US Investment Strategy service studied the SIFIs’ earnings calls for insights into borrower performance, lender willingness, liquidity and the actions and intentions of households and businesses.  Nothing in the banks’ commentary…
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The Big Bank Beige Book, October 2023

The biggest banks report that consumer credit card delinquencies still have yet to get back to pre-COVID levels and other credit performance indicators, leading and lagging, remain solid. There is still a great deal of cash sloshing around the banking system, though consumption has clearly slowed. We reiterate our view that a recession is coming, but not before the year is out.

US Investment Strategy by Doug Peta
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Eurozone: Recession Postponed, Not Cancelled

Europe’s weak patch is not about the ECB’s policy tightening, at least not yet. 2024 is another story, and the ECB’s policy will prompt a Eurozone’s recession around the summer.

European Investment Strategy by Mathieu Savary
New Record Decline In German Producer Prices
German producer prices declined by a new record 14.7% y/y in September, broadly in line with expectations of -14.1% y/y and a steeper pace of contraction than August's -12.6% y/y. Meanwhile, the monthly rate of change returned to contraction (-0.2% m/m)…
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A Bottom-Up Approach To Country Selection
A powerful feature of the Equity Analyzer platform is its breadth of coverage: roughly 13 thousand stocks trading on MSCI Developed Market exchanges. Since we have a cross-section of the same stock level data across multiple regions, we can aggregate this…
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A Phase Transition Is Coming
According to BCA Research's Global Investment Strategy service, the global economy will stay buoyant over the next few quarters but will then sour as the lagged effects of higher interest rates and tighter bank lending standards work their way through the…
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2024: The Year Of The Yen

There is a high probability that the global economy will tip into recession in the second half of 2024. A long yen position is an excellent hedge against that risk.

Global Investment Strategy, Foreign Exchange Strategy by Peter Berezin

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