In this weekend video, Chief Investment Strategist Fritz Folts, and CEO/CIO, Steve Cucchiaro, discuss the various factors that could lead to a goldilocks scenario. • Will the Fed be able to engineer a soft landing for the U.S. economy while continuing to tighten monetary policy to combat inflation? • Is a recession in 2023 inevitable? • What factors could bring on an economic recession in the U.S. in 2023?
For this video, 3EDGE’s Chief Investment Strategist Fritz Folts and CEO Steve Cucchiaro discuss What Could Derail the Bear Market Rally? • Could the recent equity market rally turn out to be another bear market rally, unable to push through the S&P 500 200-day moving average? • What are the three phases of a typical bear market? • What should we make of the inversion in the Fed’s preferred yield curve measure (difference between the yield on 3-month U.S. Treasury bills and 10-year U.S. Treasury notes)?
In this week’s video, 3EDGE’s Chief Investment Strategist, Fritz Folts, and CEO, Steve Cucchiaro, focus on the Midterm Elections and their Impact on the Markets. They discuss: • The outcome of the mid-terms and what it could mean for the economy and the markets • The impact of the October CPI report, which came in lower than expected and sparked a strong rally at the end of the week in stocks and bonds
This week’s video topic is Will Troubles in China Ripple Through the Global Markets? 3EDGE’s Chief Investment Strategist Fritz Folts and CEO Steve Cucchiaro discuss: •What could be the potential impact of the recent election of President Xi Jinping to an unprecedented third term? •Is China moving away from its growth-oriented, business-friendly, global player brand towards more nationalistic and self-sufficient policies? •Since China is the world’s second-largest economy, could these policy changes impact the rest of the world and the global markets?
As we do at the beginning of each month, Chief Investment Strategist Fritz Folts and Deputy CIO Eric Biegeleisen bring you the latest View From the EDGE®. They review our outlook for the global capital markets and various asset classes and how that guides our investment decisions.
Historically, investors have looked to fixed-income securities to protect their portfolios when the stock market is down. However, it has been a devastating year for bonds, and they may be facing their worst year of investment performance in almost 100 years.
As we do at the beginning of each month, Chief Investment Strategist Fritz Folts and Deputy CIO Eric Biegeleisen bring you the latest View From the EDGE®. They review our outlook for the global capital markets and various asset classes and how that guides our investment decisions.
The topic of this video is The Era of the Fed Put – Is It Over? Fritz Folts, our Chief Investment Strategist, and Steve Cucchiaro, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, discuss: • Will the highest inflation rate in 40 years end an era of the Fed coming to the rescue of the economy and the markets? • What could this mean for the markets going forward?
3EDGE's Chief Investment Strategist, Fritz Folts, and CEO, Steve Cucchiaro, as they discuss: •The Fed's 75 basis point increase in short-term interest rates this week •Why the Fed seems to be abandoning its policy of forward guidance •The components of inflation over which the Fed has no control
Our weekend video asks the question: is there an Earnings Recession Ahead? 3EDGE's Chief Investment Strategist, Fritz Folts, and CEO, Steve Cucchiaro, discuss: •The definition of an earnings recession •How earnings recessions are often a component of bear markets •How might investors position their investment portfolio for a potential earnings recession?