Equity Valuation

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Opinion

January 29, 2026

Higher Oil And A Patient Fed Are Testing The Market’s “Soft Landing” Faith

With policymakers signaling fewer near-term cuts and crude jumping on geopolitics, investors are being forced to price both inflation risk and growth risk at once. The market’s biggest comfort trade for 2026

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Opinion

April 8, 2026

Markets Are Betting on Perfection in an Imperfect Cycle

Investor optimism around growth, AI, and rate cuts risks overlooking structural fragilities beneath the surface. Financial markets are once again exhibiting a familiar pattern: pricing in an unusually smooth economic trajectory at