Global Fixed Income Markets: Highway to the Danger Zone?
Linking memorable quotes and moments from the original Top Gun movie to global fixed income markets in 2022.
Stress Testing the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Here we show how stress testing a portfolio or benchmark can highlight the relative exposures to exogenous events.
IPOs and SPACs Come Full Circle as Liquidity Dries
Capital markets are much softer versus a year ago, as the number of IPOs and SPACs is down sharply.
Bottom-Up Target Price for S&P 500 Drops Below 5,000 for First Time Since August 2021
In conjunction with the decline in the price of the S&P 500, industry analysts have also been lowering their target prices on S&P...
Solving for Similarity Using Company Exposures and Euclidean Distance
We used Euclidean distance to identify companies with similar geographic footprints, developing a high-performing pairs trading...
Analysts Continue to Have An Unusually High Number of “Buy” Ratings on S&P 500 Stocks
We're seeing a high number of Buy ratings despite higher inflation, rising interest rates, military conflict in Ukraine, fear of...
Mauna Loa and PPM: Analyzing the Latest Data
Published measurements from NOAA’s Mauna Loa location, collected over the past few decades, have shown a steady increase in...
Uncovering Value in Emerging Market FX Markets
Investors can combine macroeconomic assumptions with data science techniques and economic estimates to measure EM FX over- and...
Five Economic Charts to Watch in 2022: Asia Pacific
Here we provide five charts describing the data trends that will guide us in monitoring the Asia Pac economies in 2022.
Strong EV Sales Could Soon Weigh on Gasoline Demand
Despite the fanfare around EVs, they have yet to meaningfully dampen gasoline demand. However, growing sales signal that gasoline...
Highest Number of S&P 500 Companies Citing “Inflation” on Q1 Earnings Calls in Over 10 Years
Of the S&P 500 companies that conducted earnings conference calls from March 15 through June 10, 417 cited the term “inflation”...
The Impact of Green Public Contract Awards on Stock Returns
Preliminary results from a recent study appear to show that green contract awards are associated with a significant positive...
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