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We are now midway through the Q2 2023 earnings season: 254 of the companies in the S&P 500 have reported. It’s therefore worthwhile to stand back and observe some of the emerging trends. According to Refinitiv IBES, 78.7% of companies have reported positive…
Australian material stocks have been in a broad trading range since the beginning of the year both in absolute terms and relative to the overall market. This stabilization follows a sharp rally in the fourth quarter of 2022 which saw the sector gain 17% in…
Special Report

We recommend a small structural exposure to cryptocurrencies and blockchain tokens, given their incipient real-world uses as well as their proven hedging qualities against the debasement of fiat money and in banking crises. In this Special Report, we rank the major blockchains on five factors – developer activity, adoption, decentralization, scalability, and security – from which we arrive at our top five blockchains.

The US Consumer Discretionary sector has been one of the top winners since the equity rally broadened two months ago. Its 13% gain since the end of May outpaces the S&P 500’s rally by 3.8 percentage points This outperformance comes despite last week’s selloff…
Equity investors resoundingly approved of the large-cap banks’ second-quarter earnings reports: in the seven sessions since C, JPM and WFC kicked off 2Q23 earnings on July 14th, the S&P 500 Banks Index rose 6.3% to the S&P 500’s 1%, with all but two of its…
The Equity Analyzer Platform uses a 30-factor model called the BCA Score to help our clients build robust portfolios. Multi-factor models are constructed to avoid the common pitfalls of focusing on one factor dimension, such as value. Often value stocks are…
BCA Research’s US Equity Strategy service recommends investors move to overweight banks over a tactical horizon. Q2 earnings results, while cheered by investors, were quite a mixed bag. And most of the bank challenges remain a concern: High interest rates…
Special Report

Spain is holding a general election this Sunday and the country is likely to veer to the right. Will this shift threaten European unity and herald a new period of tensions in the Eurozone?

On the surface, the latest batch of Chinese economic data released on Monday shows a deterioration in consumer spending with retail sales growth slowing sharply from 12.7% y/y to 3.1% y/y in June – slightly below consensus estimates of 3.3% y/y. In addition,…

Both EV and Green Energy themes still hold strategic promise for investors, posing large upside, despite prevailing macro headwinds. While both themes have yet to claw back their pandemic peaks, a broadening of the rally supports a run for both, even in the face of high valuations.