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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.

Chart of the Week

Earnings Expectations

The global acceleration in the economy and in earnings should continue to support equities. We expect the US will recover to pre-pandemic levels by mid-2021 and Europe in 2022. At the cusp of a potential multi-year bull market, risk assets are still most attractive to us – though we know strategic discipline will be key to navigating episodic volatility.

Source: Datastream, I/B/E/S, Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research.

Market Know-How

Breaking Out from the Outbreak

Economic evidence suggests that through relatively low-cost face masks and targeted physical distancing measures, economies can recuperate while vaccines and treatments are developed. From an investment perspective, we think this unprecedented moment validates the lessons of strategic discipline, risk management and quality.

Edition 3 Themes

1From the great reset.

2Change in leadership.

3When defense is offense.

4Lower for longer.

5 Then and now.

6Meet in the middle.

GSAM Connect

December 01, 2020

Need Income? Consider Short-Duration Bonds

US interest rates are pegged at zero and expected to remain there through 2023. Yet there’s still trillions of dollars in cash sitting on the sidelines. We think there may be a better way to put some of that money to work.

November 2020

Credit Markets and Tail Risks

Resolution of US election event risk and encouraging vaccine efficacy news boosted risk sentiment in November. We believe search-for-yield motives, central bank buying, a slowdown in new issuance and a vaccine-driven economic recovery from the second half of next year will support credit markets into 2021.

November 18, 2020

Portfolio Diversifiers: How Did They Hold Up?

Today’s low rates and high equity valuations have sparked a lively dialogue among investors about developed-market investment grade debt. Is it, many wonder, still an effective hedge against equity risk? Or might other asset classes do a better job?

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More Market Strategy

November 2020

Monthly Market Pulse: November

Monthly recap of global markets, thought leadership, and investment themes from across Goldman Sachs.

May 2020

Riding the Storm Out

The consequences of COVID-19 will not be equally distributed. Our forecast is for the sudden deceleration in economic activity to be most acute in the second quarter, followed by a resurgence in growth.

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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.

How High to Hike

Our portfolio manager discusses how machine learning interprets investor sentiments and extracts topical subjects

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November 2020

Global Fixed Income Weekly

Each week the Fixed Income team releases its views on macro strategies including duration, country, cross macro and currency, and sector strategies such as securitized debt, corporate credit and emerging markets debt.

GOLDMAN SACHS RESEARCH

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