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What’s Your U.S. View?
Every year, certain trends take centre stage and help to explain market returns. For example, expectations over trade negotiations and Fed policy were useful for explaining market performance in 2019. Many of these developments often appear obvious with the benefit of hindsight, but identifying the trends and their subsequent impact in advance is far from…
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The Little Engine That Could
Since the U.S. presidential election, headlines touting small-cap performance have almost invariably cited the Russell 2000. As impressive as that index’s return has been, S&P DJI has a little engine that persistently wins the small-cap race—the S&P SmallCap 600®. Outperformance of the S&P SmallCap 600 versus the Russell 2000 primarily has to do with two…
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How Commodities Might Do Under Clinton, Trump
In October, the S&P GSCI Total Return (TR) lost 1.5% but the Dow Jones Commodity Index (DJCI) TR gained 0.1%. The performance disparity was mainly due to the weighting difference in energy since crude oil in the indices slid near 10% from its mid-month high, on doubts over OPEC’s ability to agree on production cuts and the…
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