Karen Karniol-Tambour, a Canadian who oversees Bridgewater’s Asia strategies, will leave the hedge fund after two decades to run the Canada Strong Fund.
The bank’s equity strategists see the S&P 500 nearing their 7,100 to 7,300 downside target and keep an 8,000 year-end goal.
AI shares bounced on Friday after a blockbuster jobs report, yet the week’s damage held as investors turned to inflation data and CoreWeave earnings, and some strategists called the rout a buying opportunity.
The bank’s commodities strategists lowered their targets after the Federal Reserve’s hawkish shift but said the long-term case for gold remains intact.
Investors treated the end of election uncertainty as a relief, though history shows weaker gains after midterm results like this one.
The bank’s oil team says only a lasting US-Iran agreement would quickly remove the war risk premium, though reports of the note differ on its 2027 average.
The strategist says the correction is in its final stage but that AI risk must clear first, and reports differ on how high, and how low, he sees the S&P 500 going.
Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson says to buy the dip whoever wins, while bond investors stay on the sidelines and strategists flag shutdown and borrowing-limit risks.
The hedge fund manager announced an investment in Trade[XYZ], a partner of Intercontinental Exchange, and Hyperliquid Strategies shares rose 19%.
The bank’s strategist keeps his year-end S&P 500 target of 8000 while warning that semiconductors have further to fall on worries about funding for AI spending.
The Treasury Secretary’s claim of recovering supply sits alongside Brent prices between $112 and $117, which Goldman Sachs and other analysts attribute to Middle East tensions and a war-risk premium.
The bank’s chief US equity strategist sees the S&P 500 reaching 8,300 by May 2027 and expects high-quality companies to hold up best.
JPMorgan’s chief executive paired an upbeat read on growth with warnings about war, inflation, government deficits and competing demands for capital.
The bank’s US equity strategists are pointing clients towards sectors left behind by the AI rally while keeping their year-end index target in place.
Morgan Stanley says the index is masking a broader pullback while Yardeni cuts its year-end S&P 500 target.
The bank’s head of oil research said Middle East supply recovers and prices ease, on a day December Brent settled at $109.86.
Progress on a denser DRAM design at China’s CXMT sent Samsung, SK Hynix and SoftBank lower and pushed global equities down for a second session.
JPMorgan earned $15.3 billion in the third quarter and still fell short of expectations, while Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs beat.
Doubts about the announced energy ceasefire and a fresh attack on a Saudi airport turned last week’s slide around.
The week’s calendar puts US, eurozone and Chinese inflation alongside the first bank results and the IMF meetings in Bangkok.
The Black Swan author says a pullback in Treasury demand could open a fault line across markets.
Index levels remain near records while, by Morgan Stanley’s count, roughly half of listed US stocks have fallen into bear-market territory.
More than half of US stocks have fallen 20 per cent or more since June even as the headline index holds up, strategists said this week.
Nir Bar Dea put a number on the hedge fund’s view of AI’s labour risk while the firm runs a $2 billion AI fund.
The bank attributes almost half of this year’s index earnings growth to AI-related investment, and expects depreciation to offset nearly all of those gains by 2028.
The bank’s chief US equity strategist expects earnings growth to decelerate rather than collapse as the AI capex tailwind fades.
The central banks’ own institution says investors are growing cautious about a rally now resting on rising debt and leveraged non-bank money.
The sector carrying index earnings growth sold off on Monday as investors tried to price a deceleration the industry asked for itself.
The bank’s commodities team raised its outlook on the view that markets are pricing a prolonged conflict, even as the International Energy Agency points to demand destruction.
The strategist put a level on it: crude above 120 dollars would drain liquidity, in a week when stocks rose on the prospect of a Federal Reserve rate rise.
A second day of triple-digit crude pushed inflation expectations and borrowing costs higher across the world.
Crude broke into triple digits for the first time since July, and Wall Street strategists split over whether it changes the equity story.
The bank lifted its Brent forecast and set out a separate scenario in which broader tanker attacks carry crude far above current levels.
Goldman Sachs raised its Brent and WTI forecasts and said prices could reach $120 a barrel if attacks on Middle East shipping widen.