NDR Fixed Income Allocation Strategy March 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. Only one of EM's macro, fundamental, technical, or behavioral indicators was 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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C8 Weekly Bulletin: Backing Value over Defensive – NDR’s Smart Sector
BY JON WEBB
January’s 6.2% advance in the US S&P500 index was far from uniform with sector performances stretching from a 15% gain in consumer discretionary to a 2% retreat in utilities. Given the importance of sectoral positioning - alongside overall market-directional bets - this week we give the opportunity to our index provider, Ned David Research, to outline the big calls from its 'Dan Hagen/ NDR Smart Sector with Catastrophic Stop' strategy.
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C8 Technologies Expands into the US with New Tools and Team
BY JON WEBB
C8 Technologies Expands into the US with New Tools and Team November 1, 2022…
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