(Bloomberg) — Equity investors’ anxiety about a potential recession isn’t showing up in other parts of the market, which is giving JPMorgan Chase & Co. strategist Marko Kolanovic confidence in his pro-risk stance. US and European stock markets are pricing in a 70% chance that the economy will slide into recession in the near-term, according […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — U.S. equity futures retreated and stocks looked set for a choppy start Monday amid worries about high inflation and as investors await Chinese trade data that may show the economic toll of Covid lockdowns. Contracts fell for Japan and Australia, while Hong Kong is shut for a holiday. Shares and bonds are coming […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Investors looking to protect themselves against more market turmoil should think about selling some blue chip companies’ shares and buying the corporations’ bonds instead, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Such trades can generate more income for investors: yields on investment-grade corporate notes averaged 4.4% as of Monday’s close, according to Bloomberg index […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — A drop below 4,000 index points for the S&P 500 will be a “tipping point,” which could potentially trigger a mass exodus from equities, according to Bank of America Corp. strategists. Investors have already started fleeing stocks, with outflows from equity funds over the past three weeks adding up to the worst since […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Don’t be fooled by the stock market’s rapid-fire reaction to the news. It’s just the beginning of the first real slog in years, one that will hand a comeuppance to passive investors who once thought the only way for prices to go was up. That’s the view of James Abate, whose Centre American […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Neither war, disease nor inflation are proving capable of preventing American stocks from doing what they’ve almost always done for 13 years: go up. How policy makers devoted to getting inflation under control will view that is becoming a hot topic on Wall Street. Right now, the 6.6% surge in the S&P 500 […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Stocks and equity futures sank Friday and havens including sovereign bonds jumped on reports that a major nuclear power plant is on fire in Ukraine after shelling by Russian troops. Japan led losses in an Asian equity gauge, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures shed more than 1% and European contracts dropped about […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund invested heavily in one of the stocks tied to the Archegos Capital Management blowup, while maintaining its biggest holdings of other U.S.-listed equities last quarter. The Public Investment Fund owned $110.8 million in Farfetch Ltd. shares at the end of December, representing a 1% stake in the London-based […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — More risks may be building for U.S. equities than meets the eye, Bank of America Corp. analysts said. This year’s extreme intraday market swings and fluctuations in single stocks’ value show there’s “turbulence” under the surface, equity derivatives analysts led by Gonzalo Asis said in a note on Tuesday. These gyrations have been […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Even after a correction in tech stocks and surging yields on U.S. government bonds, investors still don’t understand the risks they’re taking in equity and debt markets, according to Mark Spitznagel, manager of the best-known fund protecting against so-called black swan events. “There’s a profound lack of appreciation for how dangerous the market […]
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