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Position Adjustments at Month-End and Ahead of FOMC Outcome Lifts the Greeenback

2023-01-31

Overview: A combination of month-end adjustments and positioning ahead of the outcome of tomorrow's FOMC meeting has taken the shine off equities and has helped lift the dollar. On the heels of yesterday's sharp decline on Wall Street, several large markets in the Asia Pacific region, including China's CSI 300, the Hang Seng, and both South Korea's Kospi and Taiwan's Taiex fell by more than 1%. Although the eurozone eked out a small expansion in Q4...

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Pictet – In Conversation with Dan Dreyfus

2023-01-31

by Pictet

During Pictet’s Family Forum in Nassau, we sat down with Dan Dreyfus, founder of Bornite Capital, to discuss the sheer scale of the world’s decarbonisation challenge and his predictions for the future of investing in this area. https://www.pictet.com/ch/en/wealth-management

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Director vs dictator: The enduring relevance of Charlie Chaplin

2023-01-31

by Swissinfo

“A bad imitation of me,” Charlie Chaplin said of Adolf Hitler, who inspired The Great Dictator, one of Chaplin’s most commercially and critically successful films. But what message does it have for audiences today? Exactly 45 years ago, on December 25, 1977, one of the most famous men in the world died in Corsier-sur-Vevey overlooking Lake Geneva: Charlie Chaplin. The British actor had lived for a quarter of a century in Switzerland, where he had...

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Pictet – Market Outlook 2023

2023-01-31

by Pictet

PWM's chief investment officer César Pérez Ruiz on fixed income’s comeback, the convergence of equity risk premia between the US and the rest of the world, and the way ahead for 60/40 portfolios. https://www.pictet.com/ch/en/wealth-management

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Weekly Market Pulse: First, Kill All The Speculators

2023-01-31

by Joseph Y. Calhoun

2023-01-31

The Fed meets this week and is widely expected to raise the Fed Funds rate by 0.25% to a range of 4.5% – 4.75%. The market has factored in a small probability that they do nothing and leave rates alone, but they’ll probably do what’s expected because they’ve spent the last couple of months preparing the markets for exactly this outcome.

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