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Financial Market Round-Up – Apr’23

Truemind Capital

Equity Market Insights: The last quarter has seen one of the major shakeups from the prevailing easy situation over the last decade for the global economies. Thankfully, the Governments intervened to avoid major spillover effects on the overall economy. The Adani saga also aggravated volatility. For the last 1.5

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Financial Market Round-Up – Jan’24

Truemind Capital

Global growth exceeded projections, primarily propelled by the resilient performance of the US economy. We maintain our underweight position to equity (check the 3rd page for asset allocation) due to an unfavorable risk-reward ratio. The debt yields have declined across the yield curve maturities in the developed economies.

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Strategic Update – Q4 2023

Discipline Funds

Macroeconomic Overview Our macroeconomic forecast for 2023 called for a year of disinflation and “muddle through” That means we expected the economy to remain sluggish and for inflation to show positive rates of change that were sequentially slower. To learn more about our investment management service please contact us here.

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Financial Market Round-Up – Apr’24

Truemind Capital

Here are some of the popular themes and the risks associated with them: Falling Interest Rates : There has been earnest demand by market participants to cut interest rates in the US and other developed economies on the back of falling inflation rates. Central Governments have given hope of meaningful rate cuts within this year.

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Consumer Wallets Strong, Rate Hikes Long, What Could Go Wrong?

Investing Caffeine

Cash in consumer wallets and money in the bank help the economy keep chugging along at a healthy clip. The bull market took a pause for the month, but consumer wallets remain fat, the economy keeps chugging, the employment picture remains strong, and stock prices remain up +12% for the year (S&P 500).

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This Baby Bull Has Time to Grow

Investing Caffeine

With China’s stagnating economy, it has helped our inflationary cause by exporting deflationary goods to our country. Source: Visual Capitalist Why So Bullish? What has investors so jazzed up in recent months? For starters, inflation has been on a steady decline for many months. a few months ago to 3.9% today (see chart below).

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No Pain, No Gain

Investing Caffeine

Although I have noted some of the key headwinds the economy faces above, it is worth noting that current corporate profits remain at/near all-time record highs (see chart below) and the 3.6% As Albert Einstein stated, “In the middle of every difficulty lies an opportunity.”.