Lenses

This week’s Lenses reveal a rotation back into Value and Size factors amid cooling risk sentiment, while hedge fund crowding shows waning conviction in policy-driven and rate-sensitive themes as market positioning recalibrates around more durable macro narratives.

Markets surged in May as easing trade tensions and cooling inflation bolstered investor confidence, though uncertainties around tariffs and economic growth persist.

Markets slumped this week as rising bond yields, U.S. credit concerns, and aggressive new tariff threats fueled investor fears over economic instability and higher costs.

Markets rallied on trade relief and emerging market optimism, but fiscal and energy policy risks kept investors on edge.

Join us as we explore a volatile week fueled by easing tariff tensions across the U.S., China, and Europe.

Tech rallies, China pivots, and the Fed stays put—what it all means for markets.

U.S. equities rebounded sharply after Trump paused most new tariffs, but consumer confidence hit new lows and bond yields spiked. Join us as we explore ongoing investor anxiety over growth and policy uncertainty.

Join us as we examine the latest chapter in these geopolitically gripped markets.

Markets undergo another volatile trading week as positive jobs data is overshadowed by Trump’s sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs and consequential global retaliations.

Markets absorb another volatile trading week spurred by new Trump tariffs and inflation data.