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The AI Buildout Is Not Adding to the Economy. It Is Restructuring It.
Announced capital spending across major U.S. technology companies now points to more than $1 trillion in desired annual…
The Détente Dividend: Rethinking the US-China War Premium
In a bi-weekly geopolitical report published October 26, 20261, Patrick Fearon-Hernandez, CFA, of Confluence Investment Management challenges one…
Faster Decisions, No Compromise: Inside BMO Insurance’s SmartDecision
BMO Insurance's Katarina Nikolic, on how SmartDecision delivers market leading real-time underwriting decisions up to $5-million, which eliminates delays and uncertainty in the decision-making process.
When scarcity meets electrification: Why critical resources are becoming strategic assets
by Tal Lomnitzer, CFA, Senior Investment Manager, Janus Henderson As electricity demand accelerates, investors are increasingly focused on…
Oil Tanker Rates Top $1 Million a Day as Shipping Profits Soar
by Frank Holmes, CEO/CIO, U.S. Global Investors Earlier this week, a supertanker loading crude in the Gulf of…
The Conviction Gap: What Most Advisor Portfolios Are Missing at the Core
Most advisor portfolios mistake active weight for manager conviction. Franklin Templeton's five-factor core equity suite fixes that, starting with a proprietary conviction signal that extracts what managers actually believe.
Canada's Sleeping Giant
Mark Carney bets energy infrastructure can hold a fractured country together
Supply Is the Ceiling
The AI Buildout Has Outrun Every Optimistic Forecast. The Constraint Is Not Demand.
Beyond the Commodity Cycle
A white paper on the investment case for global resource companies in 2026.
Growth Holds, But the Tails Are Fat
In their October 2026 Cyclical Outlook 1, PIMCO Managing Director and Economist Tiffany Wilding and Chief Investment Officer…
Stable but Not Strong: AllianceBernstein's Q4 2026 Global Macro Outlook
The global economy enters the fourth quarter of 2026 on a foundation that is resilient but uneven, energy-pressured…
Markets at the Crossroads: What J.P. Morgan's 4Q 2026 Guide Tells Advisors Now
J.P. Morgan Asset Management's latest Guide to the Markets 1 (U.S., 4Q 2026, as of September 30, 2026)…
Scarcity in a World of Competing Abundances
The BlackRock Investment Institute's Q4 2026 Global Outlook1 arrives at a moment when the most consequential forces shaping…
The Architecture of Currency Markets: What Advisors and Investors Need to Know
The foreign exchange market is the largest financial market on Earth, and also one of the most misunderstood.…
The Sea as a Theatre of War: What Maritime Risk Means for Markets
The conversation about global trade disruption has been dominated by tariffs for several years. A new report from…
Taking the punchbowl away from the party
by Richard Bernstein, Global Head of Macro & Customized Investing, Janus Henderson The U.S. economy remains stronger than many investors…
Stock Market’s Wall of Worry Gets Taller
LPL Research explores how geopolitical tensions, higher interest rates, and AI investment are adding to the stock market’s wall of worry.