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Investing Through Divergence in Rates, Earnings, and Global Risks
This week’s discussion focuses on a market that continues to advance despite crosscurrents in geopolitics, inflation, and monetary policy. The team reviews steady gain...
This Week’s Trifecta: A Split Fed, Powell’s Swan Song and AI-Driven Earnings
This week’s discussion centers on a Federal Reserve on pause but increasingly divided, as inflation data and geopolitical risks complicate the policy path. The team re...
Signals in Motion: What the Data, the Fed, and AI Are Telling Us Now
Speakers:Brian Pietrangelo, Managing Director of Investment StrategyGeorge Mateyo, Chief Investment OfficerStephen Hoedt, Head of EquitiesRajeev Sharma, Head of Fixed ...
Markets Look Past Iran Headlines as Oil Risks Evolve
This week’s conversation focuses on how investors are weighing geopolitics against a market that’s showing signs of repair. The episode walks through key economic upda...
Playing Through the Rough: PCE, CPI, and a Hawkish Fed Backdrop
This week’s discussion focuses on how geopolitical risk and shifting rate expectations are driving markets more than fundamentals. Attention stays on developments in I...
Markets in the Fog: War Risk, Earnings Reality, and Higher Rates
This week’s discussion centers on how geopolitical risk, shifting rate expectations, and resilient earnings are reshaping the investment landscape. With economic data ...
Bracket Busting Week for Investors as Rates and Oil Take Center Court
This week’s conversation focuses on a market environment defined by patience, uncertainty, and shifting expectations. The team walks through February economic data, hi...
Quality Over Quantity: Credit Markets in a Volatile Week
A volatile backdrop tied to the Iran conflict kept energy markets in focus and reinforced a higher-uncertainty tone across risk assets. Economic updates pointed to a j...
Spring Forward, Markets Backpedal: Iran, Oil, and a Jobs Shock
Volatility is framed as a two- front test: geopolitical escalation and a labor market miss that undercut confidence in near term growth. The investor fulcrum is oil. I...
Cold as Ice? When the Numbers Are Strong but the Market Isn’t Impressed
As February closes, markets are grappling with a familiar tension: solid fundamentals meeting elevated expectations. This episode unpacks why strong earnings, includin...
Markets Digest Tariff Ruling as Inflation Pressures Persist
This week’s discussion reflects a market navigating slower growth and firmer inflation. Fourth‑quarter GDP shows a clear downshift, while PCE inflation surprised to th...
A Market in Motion: Inflation Softens, IPOs Pop, and AI Stirs the Pot
This week, we review a busy week of economic data, including updates on retail sales, employment, and inflation, and discuss what these signals mean for the broader ec...
Jobs Cool, Chips Rule and Positioning While the Dollar Drifts
Markets absorbed a brief U.S. government shutdown, ongoing fourth‑quarter earnings, and fresh readings from the Institute for Supply Management: Services stayed in exp...
Fed Holds Rates Steady; New Fed Chair is Announced
The Fed stayed put, inflation hasn’t cooled enough, and investors are penciling in the next rate cut at mid‑year. A light data slate backed that view—jobless claims re...
From Greenland to the Grid: What’s Moving Markets This Week
A steady, broadening market week: breadth improved beyond the mega‑caps, volatility’s blip faded, and PCE inflation continues to run at a pace consistent with the Fed’...
The Fed, the Grid, and the Consumer: What’s Powering 2026 So Far?
A steady but complicated start to 2026: inflation isn’t flaring, retail spending held up, and the Beige Book nudged higher while jobless claims stayed low. With a Janu...
A Crude Awakening: Venezuela, Energy, and Investor Signals
Happy New Year! In the first episode of 2026, we catch up on what we missed during the holiday break, and dig into the latest market and economic developments in the b...
Fed Fractures & Holiday Futures: The 2025 Market Wrap
In this week's episode, our experts discuss recent market activity, economic data delays due to the recent government shutdown, and the Federal Reserve’s latest rate c...
AI‑n’t a Bubble (Yet): Winners, Losers, and the H1:2026 Equity Sprint
On this week’s episode, a busy week of mixed economic signals—initial jobless claims hit a very low 191,000 while ADP reported a -32,000 decline in private payrolls—an...
Economic Crosswinds and Fed Uncertainty: Positioning for 2026
With the historic government shutdown behind us, we dig back into key economic data captured over the duration of the shutdown: highlights include a modest improvement...