Investors’ options looking increasingly squeezed as global stock markets catch-up to the US
Stockpickers still putting their chips on a cyclical recovery but ‘a lot is already priced in and a pause may be warranted’
Stockpickers still putting their chips on a cyclical recovery but ‘a lot is already priced in and a pause may be warranted’
While investor sentiment on the US economy remains stubbornly bullish, this could give way to volatile conditions similar to those seen before the 1973 stock market crash, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
If the fund managers surveyed on a monthly basis by Bank of America Merrill Lynch are any indication, animal spirits have returned.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch suspects bank lending conditions will force the hand of the Federal Reserve, clipping the current risk rally.
The outcome of the US election has triggered a largescale sell-off of bonds and splurges on cyclicals, according to data from Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Winter is coming, but instead of flying south the flock of black swans that has pecked away at 30 years of globalisation this year is heading east toward Europe.
Eurozone investment grade and government bonds continued to see outflows as inflation expectations rose, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch research.
Humans have a remarkable capacity for adaption and the investment management sector is no different.
Chinese markets rose on Thursday, bringing relief from the frenzied selling that had characterised markets over the past few days and hope that the authorities increasingly heavy-handed measures to stop the rout had finally begun to work.