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Market Strategy

Complex markets can be difficult to decipher. We provide investment professionals and their clients with a global perspective to help explain the issues and trends affecting their portfolios.

Market Know-How

Better, Stronger, Faster

There is ample evidence that the global landscape is better, stronger, and faster today than at any previous point in the current expansion.

Q4 Themes

1Market pricing of US tax reform has changed

2The expanding global expansion

3An emerging tide

4Data everywhere

5The credit cycle is aging

6Markets are often challenged

Chart of the Week

Chart of the Week: Taxes Are the Talk

Credit spreads across most sectors are currently at historically elevated levels.

Source: OECD, Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research, and GSAM. As of 2017.

Chart Notes: Goldman Sachs does not provide accounting, tax or legal advice. Please see additional disclosures on page 4.

GSAM Connect

September 2017

How Millennials are Changing Emerging Markets

Emerging markets are home to 86% of the world’s millennials. Consumer behavior and consumption patterns in emerging markets are changing and new industries and opportunities are emerging, driven by wealth creation and the impact of the millennial consumer.

July 25, 2017

EM and the Commodity Conundrum

EM is no longer the commodity proxy it once was—with the increasing dominance of consumer and technology companies in EM, the rising EM consumer’s income growth and spending are becoming the long-term drivers.

July 03, 2017

Tech: Views from the Valley

Larry Tankel, Portfolio Manager of GSAM’s Technology Opportunities Fund, and a group from GSAM’s Fundamental Equity team recently spent a week in Silicon Valley meeting with executives of public and private companies. He shares the team’s three key takeaways here.

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Q3 2017

The Synchronized Expansion

The economic expansion has deepened and synchronized around the globe, and the inputs are broad. Even so, markets remain vulnerable to shocks of volatility. Realistic expectations are key.

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Asset Class Views

Access the latest views from our product teams on macro strategies and browse insights by key topics, such as equities, fixed income, money markets and alternatives.

GSAM Quarterly Investment Outlook 3Q17

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Q3 2017

Investment Strategy

Strong global earnings, receding political risk and overly-negative sentiment on the Trump trade leave us positive on equities.

October 13, 2017

Global Fixed Income Weekly

The US consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.55% month-over-month (MoM) on higher energy prices, while core CPI was notably soft, rising 0.13% MoM. Price weakness in medical care products and vehicles weighed on core prices, and there was no sign of an inflationary impulse arising from resumed demand following recent weather disruptions.

GOLDMAN SACHS RESEARCH

Follow trends in the global economy, including policy issues and analysis of economic development from Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research.