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Denise Chisholm: The Midterm Effect - And Its Limits
by Denise Chisholm, Director of Quantitative Market Strategy, Fidelity Investments The four-year presidential cycle is one of the…
Canada’s Economic Woes
Canada’s paths to growth have frozen.
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.
W’s to V’s: Dip-buying in Market Recoveries
by Craig Basinger, Derek Benedet, Brett Gustafson & Spencer Morgan, Purpose Investments Pavlovian conditioning, discovered by giving dogs…
Modest Government Spending Shrinkage
by Brian Wesbury, Chief Economist, & Robert Stein, Deputy Chief Economist, First Trust Portfolios The federal government is…
Trump and the Global Chessboard
by Samuel Rines, Macro Strategist, Model Portfolios, WisdomTree ey Takeaways Current geopolitical tensions are unlikely to evolve into…
The Global Oil Complex and the War of Regime Change
by Hubert Marleau, Market Economist, Palos Management Contrary to adversaries, who called the prediction markets run by Kalshi…
How U.S. midterm elections may affect markets
by Matt Miller and Chris Buchbinder, Capital Group With everything happening in the world — from the U.S.…
The Order Is Rapidly Fadin’
by Ed d'Agostino, COO, Mauldin Economics Every so often, a single word surfaces and cuts through the noise. If…
The Fed Chose Politics
by Brian S. Wesbury – Chief Economist & Robert Stein, CFA – Deputy Chief Economist, First Trust Portolios…
Legal investigation of Fed Chair Powell presents new risk to markets
by Brian Levitt & Ben Jones, Global Market Strategist, Invesco Key takeaways New investigation - Recent news indicates…
The Fog of War in Energy Markets – Eric Nuttall Cuts Through the Panic
In a week where oil markets were rattled by geopolitical upheaval, portfolio shifts, and speculative frenzy, Eric Nuttall,…
Five Forces, One Market Shift: What Citadel Securities Sees Heading into 2026
THE MARKET WE’RE IN — AND WHERE IT GOES FROM HERE “The U.S. economy enters 2026 with resilient…
Venezuela: Implications for Markets and Investors
by Stephen Dover, Chief Market Strategist and Head of Franklin Templeton Institute at Franklin Templeton Early Saturday morning,…
Wesbury: A Very Political Week
by Brian S. Wesbury – Chief Economist & Robert Stein, CFA – Deputy Chief Economist, First Trust Portfolios…
The Tariff Gavel: Trump vs the Supremes
by Hubert Marleau, Market Economist, Palos Management The polymarket odds of tariffs surviving the ruling in their current…