Jihan Diolosa, Associate Director of our UK Institutional team, poses questions to our lead multi-asset portfolio managers based on some of the key issues keeping investors awake at night.
U.S. equities remain lackluster, despite improvement of U.S. corporate earnings numbers compared to last quarter of about 5.5%.
Third consecutive quarter of negative U.S. corporate earnings, down about 2.6%.
Emerging markets improve this week, with cyclical headwinds now in their favor.
Continued strength in European markets with the STOXX 600® Index up about 1.5%., as worst-case scenarios anticipated from the recent Brexit vote appear to not be happening.