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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Risky Business

Jan 23, 2026 - BMO Private Wealth

The Through Line: After an extended period of relative calm, volatility has reasserted itself into capital markets. Fluctuating asset prices are nerve wracking – especially when they happen suddenly or with great velocity. Yet price volatility by its...

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Putting a Sweater on the Octopus – employment paradoxes and paradigms

Jan 16, 2026 - BMO Private Wealth

The Through Line: The wellbeing of the labor market preoccupied commentators, policy makers, Fed watchers and job hunters for much of 2025......

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Level-setting the ABCs of 2026

Jan 09, 2026 - BMO Private Wealth

The Through Line: In 2025, we saw a swarm of trends, concerns and surprises – many of which will follow us into the new year. Some of the themes rhymed with prior periods, while others permanently bent the arc of specific trajectories. Investors may...

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2024 Market Outlook: The Year Ahead

Between rising geopolitical tensions in Europe and Asia, the growing threat of climate change and the coming elections that will see almost half of the global population heading to the polls, it’s understandable that some investors are on edge....

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Equity and Fixed Income Strategy - January 2024

We are already seeing some optimistic signals. First, far from deteriorating, our recession probability model has shown improvement with the odds of a recession ticking down to about 40%....

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Global Markets Commentary 2023 Year in Review: Bankers, Barbie and Bounce Back

When we look back on 2023, the tragedies in Ukraine and the Middle East will sadly stand out in our memories. For capital markets, banks at all levels (regional, global and central) drove a volatile year....

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Equity and Fixed Income Strategy - December 2023

We think the market can power higher through year-end and beyond. That, in a nutshell, has been our call for the last few months, despite the pervasive negativity surrounding the geopolitical environment as well as the interest rate and economic outl...

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2024 Capital Markets Outlook: Plenty of Progress, Solid Foundations Laid

Looking back on 2023, we can see progress in tackling major issues that loomed over the global economy and capital markets. The world enters 2024 faced with some unfinished business that will be a priority in the year ahead....

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Equity and Fixed Income Strategy - November 2023

Violence, political upheaval, and interest rate increases. Sadly, those factors have come to define much of 2023. Not surprisingly, investors are in a sour mood and much of the market has been under pressure....

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Global Markets Commentary October 2023: Video

October marked the third consecutive month of equity market declines, and certainly the month was marred by horrific developments in Israel and Gaza. Those are adding to the ongoing tragedy in the Ukraine. But it was really too hot economic growth in...

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Global Markets Commentary: The Trouble with Five

October marked a third consecutive month of equity market declines. The month began with horrific developments in Israel and Gaza, which added to the ongoing tragedy in Ukraine and other fraught geopolitical situations....

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Global Markets Commentary September 2023 : Video

We're going to cover the month and the quarter in our global monthly market commentary. September saw both stocks and bonds decline, reinforcing its reputation as an ugly month for investors, and that goes all the way back to 1950......

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Equity and Fixed Income Strategy - October 2023

Between another averted U.S. government shutdown and strikes across different industries, investors have had plenty of risks to consider. However, the risk to rule them all has to do with interest rates....

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