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Weekly Wire: What the election means for the market
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Equities have rallied, the economy is recovering, and we are learning to live with COVID-19, all of which is good news.
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Weekly Macro Update: Investors Beware! Trump & Biden Agree On Something!
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China’s rapid post-pandemic recovery looks tempting, but relations with the U.S. will get worse regardless of who wins the White House.
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Weekly Macro Update: It’s Not the Beginning of the End; It’s the End of the Beginning
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As investors look past the pandemic, the weak cycle coming into view means the best returns depend on identifying secular change.
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Weekly Wire: Sometimes, it’s all about expectations
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Sometimes in life it’s not so much what you do, it’s what you do relative to what the world expects of you, like Lloyd Christmas in Dumb & Dumber, totally redeeming himself in the eyes of Harry Dunne when he trades their van “straight up, to a kid in town” for a moped that gets 70 MPGs.
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Weekly Macro Update: The Impact of COVID-19 on Commercial Real Estate Capital Markets
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While the Global Financial Crisis indiscriminately impacted volumes and pricing across commercial property types, the impact of the pandemic on capital markets, has been more selective, widening the gulf between “winner” and “loser” property types.
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Weekly Wire: It’s the final countdown…to the election
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As the 2020 Presidential election draws near, our attention instinctively turns to Europe – the Swedish pop-metal band, not the continent – and their mid-80s chart-topper, The Final Countdown.
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Weekly Macro Update: The Pandemic’s Unexpected Upside
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Hurricane Laura and Typhoon Bavi left heartbreaking trails of destruction last week, triggering fresh headlines around the connection between severe weather and climate change—and fresh debate about the right climate policy in the midst of a pandemic.
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Weekly Macro Update: Keep Your Eye on the Loser
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In this brief lull between America's two main presidential conventions, the country’s political tectonic plates are shifting even in these freeze-dried, online versions without falling balloons, cheering crowds and silly hats.
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Weekly Macro Update: A Promising Update on the Vaccine we are All Waiting for
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We believe there is good reason to be optimistic. The global effort to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 has progressed at an incredible speed and is breathtaking when put in the context of vaccine development, which typically takes around a decade.
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Weekly Macro Update: TikTok on the Clock, Now Don’t Let Fiscal Stimulus Stop
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TikTok may be the tip of the iceberg as the U.S. recommends tech companies remove Chinese apps from their app stores. Uncertainty around the next stimulus package may continue to weigh on consumer spending as we expect weaker data for July.
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Weekly Macro Update: Taming the Golden Geese (Without Killing Them)
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After rising to the challenge of making lockdowns livable, technology firms and their investors face a trickier future than ever.
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Weekly Wire: What ails “King Dollar”
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We live in a world where the US dollar dominates – meaning more trade and financial transactions use it and more are held by global central and commercial banks than any other currency.