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  1. G10 Rates Weekly: EUR to Benefit From Softer Eurozone Inflation and a Vigilant ECB

    Richard Jones

    Eurozone (EZ) CPI readings, both headline and core, are coming in softer, with the most recent data below consensus estimates.

  2. Credit Outlook: We Favour High Yield

    John Tierney

    Investment grade and high yield corporate bond spreads are trading in a narrow range, in line with equity volatility.

  3. Using Twitter to Predict Markets and Monetary Policy

    Sam van de Schootbrugge

    A new FEDS working paper uses Twitter chatter to build a measure of credit and financial market sentiment. The authors use Keyword Clustering alongside FinBERT to assign sentiment scores to tweets. They then average over tweets to create sentiment indices at different frequencies.

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Why Is the Debt Ceiling So Contentious in the United States?

Bilal Hafeez on Aljazeera TV

Why the Fed won’t Crash Risk Markets

Week Ahead

Deepak Gurnani on Building Winning Investment Strategies

Conversations with Bilal Hafeez

Portfolio Updates read all

  1. Prime Trade Ideas: CHF, JPY Key to Profiting From an Ugly Debt Ceiling Negotiation

    We consolidate our favourite biases into one, easy-to-read, weekly report! Please find the original pieces linked throughout and a summary table at the end of the document. Reach out to us on Slack or email the author with any questions about the content.

  2. New Look Asset Allocation Update

    This month, we expand the coverage of our asset class views and provide further granularity in each component.

  3. Prime Trade Ideas: Positioning for a US Debt Ceiling Debacle

    We consolidate our favourite biases into one, easy-to-read, weekly report! Please find the original pieces linked throughout and a summary table at the end of the document. Reach out to us on Slack or email the author with any questions about the content.

Trending Articles read all

  1. G10 Rates Weekly: EUR to Benefit From Softer Eurozone Inflation and a Vigilant ECB

    Richard Jones

    Eurozone (EZ) CPI readings, both headline and core, are coming in softer, with the most recent data below consensus estimates.

  2. ECB Monitor: Dovish Mood Could Persist in Near Term

    Henry Occleston

    ECB hawkishness has been pared lately, despite the main voices continuing to reject that underlying inflation is falling.

  3. Earnings Outlook: Equities Skirt Risks of a Sharp Downturn

    John Tierney

    For all the hot air it generated, markets were correct to simply ignore the ongoing drama around the debt ceiling and outlook for Federal Reserve (Fed) policy.

Hive Explainers more explainers

  1. Can Defensive Stocks Protect Your Investment Portfolio?

    Macro Hive

    We explain how defensive stocks can help protect your investments during market downturns.  By combining defensive stocks with other types of stocks, such as growth stocks or value stocks, investors can create a diversified portfolio.

  2. The US Banking Crisis: Lessons From the Past

    John Tierney

    After more than a decade of relative calm in the banking sector, the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) crisis was a wake-up call and reminder that bank runs and failures can still happen.

  3. What Is a Stock Split?

    Macro Hive

    We explain what a stock split is and the advantages and disadvantages for investors. We also look at several big recent stock splits such as the Apple stock split and the Amazon stock split. 

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  1. Ep. 166: Deepak Gurnani on Building Winning Investment Strategies 

    Deepak Gurnani is the Founder and Managing Partner of Versor Investments - $2bn quantitative investment firm. Deepak is the former CIO of Investcorp’s Hedge Fund Group and was one of the founding members in 1996.

  2. Ep. 165: Jim Rogers on the Demise of the Dollar, Inflation and China

    Jim Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership. During the next 10 years, the portfolio gained 4200%, while the S&P rose less than 50%. Rogers then decided to retire – at age 37.

  3. Ep. 164: Stefan Jansen on How to Use ChatGPT and AI in Finance

    Stefan Jansen is the author of the widely read ‘Machine Learning For Algorithmic Trading’. He is the founder and Lead Data Scientist at Applied AI. He advises Fortune 500 companies, investment firms and startups across industries on data & AI strategy and developing machine learning solutions.

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Bilal Hafeez
Bilal Hafeez

Bilal Hafeez: CEO & Head of Research

Before starting Macro Hive, Bilal was Global Head of International Fixed Income Strategy at Nomura, and Head of Multi-Asset Research and Advisor to the CEO at Deutsche Bank. Bilal started his twenty-year career at JP Morgan. Academically, Bilal was an Honorary Visiting Professor of Finance at Cass Business School and studied Economics at St Johns College, Cambridge.

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Andrew Simon
Andrew Simon

Andrew Simon: Chief Operating Officer

Andrew spent over 25 years in finance on both the buy and sell side. He co-founded Eschaton Opportunities, a $100 million hedge fund focused on global thematic value investing. Earlier in his career, Andrew led JP Morgan's institutional sales business across foreign exchange and emerging markets in Europe, ran Lehman's global derivative sales business, and managed Deutsche Bank's European currency option trading and derivative research business.

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