Key takeaways:
- While volatility understandably increased with the onset of the Iran conflict, financial markets have proven relatively resilient. Investors coalesced around the critical assumption that hostilities and the associated disruptions to the global economy would be short lived.
- By looking past potentially short-term geopolitical risk, market prices are reflecting other factors, including a soft U.S. labor market, artificial intelligence (AI) as a
secular theme, fiscal stimulus and steadying manufacturing activity. - Our sentiment and positioning indicators showed drawdowns within several market segments reaching capitulation territory and could therefore represent
attractive entry points.
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