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Weekly Investment Commentary: The 60/40 portfolio: What’s old is new again
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The ongoing viability of the traditional 60/40 stock/bond portfolio has been debated before, but in 2022 the venerable allocation suffered its worst year since the global financial crisis amid an equity bear market and sharply higher interest rates.
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Global Weekly Commentary: Central banks compelled to hold tight
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Sticky inflation looks to compel developed market (DM) central banks to crank policy rates higher – and keep policy tight for longer. The Federal Reserve paused last week but pointed to more hikes on the way.
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Student of the Market: June 2023
Stay on top of the changing market environments by learning from their historical parallels.
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Weekly Investment Commentary: AI rallies the tech troops as equities march higher
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Blockbuster potential, with some caveats. Part sci-fi cautionary tale, part celebration of the human capacity to love, Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence was released on a day in 2001 when the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index closed 57% lower than its dot-com bubble peak.
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Global Weekly Commentary: Notes from our Outlook Forum
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BlackRock investment leaders at our June 6-7 Outlook Forum agreed the new regime of macro and market volatility is playing out. The consensus: Granular investment opportunities abound even against that backdrop.
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Weekly Investment Commentary: Farmland: Cream of the inflation hedge crop?
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Real assets — historically an effective hedge against inflation — appear well-suited for the current backdrop.
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Global Weekly Commentary: Macro outlook retakes spotlight
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Last week’s U.S. debt ceiling deal removes near-term uncertainty and thrusts the market’s focus back to the macro picture: sticky inflation due to tight labor markets.