With equity and bond markets having moved in tandem for the past few years, this week's Bulletin focuses on the potential to add uncorrelated returns to an equity/bond portfolio.
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C8 Weekly Bulletin: AI Investing with Brain
BY JON WEBB
The C8 Weekly Bulletin returns after an Easter break with the announcement that Brain, an AI-driven research provider, has now joined the C8 platform. Brain has developed NODES; an integrated Artificial Intelligence Engine that combines Artificial Intelligence algorithms with proprietary Natural Language Processing techniques to process a large volume of external information.
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Thoughts From The Divide: Lack of Action
BY JON WEBB
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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