NDR Fixed Income Allocation Strategy February 2021 Update
The NDR Fixed Income Allocation Strategy entered the month with aggressive positioning. Both Emerging Markets and U.S. High Yield received large overweight allocations. None of EM's macro, fundamental, technical, or behavioral indicators were bearish at the start of the month. Click the link below to read more about the strategy's positioning.
It’s another week of heavy-hitting inflation data, with PPI coming in hotter than expected, CPI was in line with expectations on a year-on-year basis, and import prices “rose by the most in two years in April amid rising costs for energy products and other goods”. Under the hood, both CPI and import prices showed additional signs of running hot, with the latter featuring an upwardly revised 0.6% month-on-month change in March, and the CPI data, including hot readings in some of the niches and metrics followed by Powell et al., such as the 4.0% annualized reading in six-month Core CPI and a sobering 6.0% annualized reading in six-month Core Services.
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Ahead of November CPI, TSM’s Revenue and Oracle’s AI Surge
BY TEMATICA
CHIPs Act dollars awarded to Micron, Toll's brighter outlook for the housing market
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Thoughts From The Divide: How To Know
BY JON WEBB
Ah! The start of the new year. The new calendar offers so much possibility! A moment of change that seems to come just as we have spent time following traditions and celebrating holidays that have managed to survive. It’s a comforting reminder that while “progress” is relentless, amid the seasonal ebb and flow there are still some things we can rely on. A missed Fed inflation and rates projection, a TFTD that is once again arriving after the end of the year (mea culpa encore), and… a return to the wisdom of Whitney Houston?
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