Yesterday, BCA Research's US Investment Strategy service recommended that investors go overweight the largest banks in the US; BAC, C, JPM, USB and WFC. The uncertainty around loan losses remains extremely high. No one knows…
Highlights Portfolio Strategy Our conservative dividend growth assumptions especially for the next three years – largely mimicking the GFC experience – result in an SPX 3,000 fair value target. Relative performance…
Highlights Banks have an unmatched perspective on the entire economy, … : BCA began by tracking money flows through the banking system to gain advance notice of the direction of markets and the economy. … so we review…
Overweight Home improvement retailers (HIR) were the first consumer discretionary stocks to sniff out the end of the Great Recession, troughing even prior to the China-sensitive materials and industrials equities. As such we believe…
Overweight In the most recent Weekly Report, we boosted the S&P consumer discretionary index to overweight via upgrading its heavy-weight internet retail sub-index to an above benchmark allocation. E-commerce has been…
Highlights Stay tactically neutral to equities. The market may meet some short-term resistance, especially as a slew of poor earnings are released in the coming weeks. The long-term threat to equities comes from the pandemic’s…
The chart shows that the Fed is on track to balloon its balance sheet over $11tn in the coming year, i.e. almost trebling it, and soaring to over 50% of GDP. Beyond the Fed’s QE5 liquidity injection and skyrocketing bank credit, in…
Yesterday, BCA Research's US Equity Strategy service upgraded the S&P consumer discretionary sector to overweight. The Fed really cares about household net worth (HNW) because it is a key pillar of consumer spending, which…