Street Signals
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Tech Stocks and the AI Investing Frontier
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The technology sector has no shortage of positives backing it and the applications of artificial intelligence across tech and other sectors present us...
Last Year's Surprises Meet This Year's Markets
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
And the end of 2023, Michael Metcalfe, our global head of macro strategy, published a piece highlighting where our research offered a differential to ...
Coming In For A (Soft) Landing
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The first few weeks of 2024 see interest rate markets in flux, assessing and re-assessing the extent of forthcoming policy easing cycles from the worl...
Ballots and Borders: Geopolitics In Focus
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Volatility has been subdued to start the year, but geopolitical risks are on the rise. We have yet to see the turmoil and unrest in the news have any ...
Markets Get Back To Work - What's Changed?
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Street Signals returns from a brief winter hibernation, with the first two weeks of the New Year offering plenty of food for thought. Dan Gerard is ba...
The Best Reads of 2023
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It is hard to imagine being a market strategist and not being a voracious reader. The Strategy team at State Street Global Markets certainly love a bo...
2024 Roundtable: Like Spinning Plates
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Following on the heels of our top trades in equities, rates and FX, this week Street Signals brings a broader discussion of the biggest questions for ...
Special Edition: 5 Themes and 15 Ideas for 2024
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The year is winding down and thoughts are shifting to what will drive markets in the New Year. There will be unknown unknowns that will surely move ma...
How Much Will 2024 Look Like 2023?
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
2023 has been a most unusual year. Despite significant stress in the US banking system early in the year, an ongoing war in Europe, a new war in the M...
Central Bank Policy Tones On the Turn - An AI-Based Approach
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Despite protests from central banks that the fight against inflation is not yet won, expectations for easing next year are building and being pulled f...
Why Are FX Markets So Quiet?
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The calm in currency markets since the late summer has been one of the stranger puzzles of the last year. Its not as though FX markets have nothing to...
The 30,000 Foot View from our Research Conferences
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our annual series of Research conferences around the world came to a close this week, with events across Europe. This week, Tim flies solo and gives a...
Stocks Finely Balanced For Year End
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It has been a year of two halves for equity markets. The belief that central bank easing would come to the rescue bolstered returns in the first half,...
How Much Debt Is Too Much Debt?
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's a question increasingly asked in market discussions, especially since the brief period of deficit drama in the UK last year - is the weight of so...
Middle East Conflict and Geopolitical Fragmentation
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Markets often struggle to discount geopolitical risk and the response to the extreme violence in the Middle East last week and subsequent escalation o...
Is It Time To Buy Bonds?
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's been another rough year for bond markets, but the makings of a recovery are starting to appear. Inflation is cooling, monetary policymakers do no...
View From the Trading Desk: Looking For Breaking Points
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Reserve's higher-for-longer message is still being digested by markets and pushing the dollar higher as a consequence. The longer these mo...
The Dollar-Oil Double Whammy
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Asia and China specifically have undergone a significant reassessment of expectations in 2023 - from the consensus, re-opening led optimism at the sta...
Global inflation trends - do rising energy prices block the path back to normal?
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
More central banks are sounding like they want to pause and take a break from fighting inflation, to assess how their efforts play out after some tent...
From Dotcoms to De-Dollarization
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's rare to find someone who can speak with expertise on one topic let alone three or four, but we're lucky enough to have Ramu Thiagarajan, Senior I...
The hard questions to ask about a soft landing
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A soft landing for the US and possibly the global economy looks achievable, but is it desirable? In the short-run, surely, yes. But in the long-run? D...
Five things to focus on as summer flies by
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Markets have been relatively quiet but there are concerns bubbling under the surface. While the podcast is going to take some time off to recharge bef...
Hard landing, immaculate disinflation or something else? What a trader makes of these markets
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In thinking about markets, we can often get the long-term vision right without considering the bumps along the way and how one navigates them. And rig...
Tech Stocks - Seasonal Swoon or Further FOMO?
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After 10 years of mostly steady outperformance, investors are rotating away from tech stocks and the sector is now only keeping pace with the broader ...
American exceptionalism, the Fed and the fate of the US dollar
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The rest of the summer will likely be spent wondering just how much further major central banks need to go in tightening policy. The Federal Reserve i...
Assessing current geopolitcal risks
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A new partnership with GeoQuant expands our indicator set to include measures of geopolitical and country risks. We discuss these metrics with GeoQuan...
Fed running a tight ship
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Next week's Federal Reserve meeting is likely to mean a resumption of rate hikes after June's wait-and-see approach. The main question for markets is ...
What's next for China?
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
China's post-COVID reopening was seen as a potential tailwind for global growth when other economies were seen slowing thanks to tighter monetary and ...
Recession reality check
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A year ago, the US yield curve inverted, raising the probability of a recession as such moves so often have signaled in past market cycles. Equity mar...
Portfolio construction in ambiguous investment regimes
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Asset allocation decisions are difficult enough, but especially so in the current environment, with the paths of growth and inflation so unclear. A re...
Are we at a turning point with inflation?
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Inflation is in retreat - not at a pace fast enough for the Fed to abandon its stance of tighter monetary policy but enough that the Fed skipped a rat...
Street Signals - A Weekly Podcast Filled With Market Signals Goes Public!
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Previously only available to State Street's clients, Street Signals goes public! In this opening episode, we introduce the State Street Institutional ...