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Market Signals and Shifts: What to watch in 2026
Our second annual State Street Markets outlook, Market signals and shifts: What to watch in 2026, examines the dominant forces shaping the year ahead through a lens that challenges consensus thinking.
US Stocks: Stick or Twist?
Short-term market conditions remain subject to the headlines. Long-term questions of US equity market performance and whether investors require a rethink of their asset allocation preferences are the same and as valid today as they were before the eruption of Middle East hostilities. This week, Dan Gerard, senior multi-asset strategist for State Street Markets, talks to us about a new piece on the US stock market and whether concentration and valuation risks are as acute today as they were earlier ...
The Fallacy of Concentration
Evidence shows that concentrated market capitalization weights do not make an index riskier, because larger stocks are inherently more diversified and their increased weights are offset by their lower volatility compared to small stocks. The dominance of large tech firms in market-cap-weighted indices has sparked recent concern about concentration risk, but historical data and empirical analysis suggest these fears may be unfounded. A review of nearly 90 years of market performance shows that ...
Market Signals and Shifts: What to watch in 2026
Our second annual State Street Markets outlook, Market signals and shifts: What to watch in 2026, examines the dominant forces shaping the year ahead through a lens that challenges consensus thinking.
US Stocks: Stick or Twist?
Short-term market conditions remain subject to the headlines. Long-term questions of US equity market performance and whether investors require a rethink of their asset allocation preferences are the same and as valid today as they were before the eruption of Middle East hostilities. This week, Dan Gerard, senior multi-asset strategist for State Street Markets, talks to us about a new piece on the US stock market and whether concentration and valuation risks are as acute today as they were earlier ...
The Fallacy of Concentration
Evidence shows that concentrated market capitalization weights do not make an index riskier, because larger stocks are inherently more diversified and their increased weights are offset by their lower volatility compared to small stocks. The dominance of large tech firms in market-cap-weighted indices has sparked recent concern about concentration risk, but historical data and empirical analysis suggest these fears may be unfounded. A review of nearly 90 years of market performance shows that ...
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