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by SIACharts.com Costco Wholesale Corporation operates a chain of membership-only warehouse stores. Despite its familiar retail presence, the shares continue to exhibit weak relative strength. Costco exited the Favoured Zone on June 30, 2025, at $989.72 with a negative SMAX reading. Since then, the shares have declined 6.58% to a recent close of $924.59, highlighting the value of monitoring relative strength even among widely recognized companies.

by Carl Tannenbaum, Vaibhav Tandon, and Ryan Boyle, Northern Trust In Game of Thrones, the phrase “winter is coming” signaled a looming threat that required preparation long before it arrived. Europe's gas market faces a similar challenge today. The continent is not facing a repeat of the 2022 energy crisis. European policymakers’ push to diversify supply sources and expand import capacity have added to resilience amid the current disruption of energy supply chains.

The recent climb in bond yields has unsettled fixed income markets and rekindled anxieties about 2022, a year that ranks among the worst on record for bond investors. But in a September 28, 2026 note, The Cushion Beneath the Volatility 1, Sage Advisory's Partner and Senior Strategist Komson Silapachai and Co-CIO and Managing Partner Thomas Urano argue that the analogy breaks down on its most important dimension: the starting yield.

The artificial intelligence boom is unlike anything capital markets have encountered before. It is not simply a technology story, though the technology is extraordinary. It is an asset allocation story — one playing out simultaneously across every major asset class, rewiring correlations, compressing diversification, and demanding a new kind of discipline from allocators who thought they had done the work of building resilient portfolios.

For about fifteen years now, one of the most reliable strategies in systematic investing has quietly fallen apart - but only at one end of the time spectrum. Short-term trend following, the engine that powered the CTA industry for decades, has been generating returns close to zero since around 2009. Trend signals that operate over weeks to months still work. A new paper by Jutta G.

In a September 2026 research presentation, Apollo Global Management's Shobhit Gupta and Torsten Slok 1 lay out a case that is as urgent as it is structural: interest rates are rising for reasons that have little to do with the traditional business cycle, and the implications for credit markets are both consequential and, in key respects, surprisingly constructive. The presentation is organized around two questions. First, what is driving the current rates move?

The conversation about global trade disruption has been dominated by tariffs for several years. A new report from Deutsche Bank Research Institute argues that framing is dangerously incomplete. In Sea Change: The Market Implications of the Threat to the Maritime Commons 1, published September 25, 2026, Macro Strategist Oliver Harvey makes a pointed and well-evidenced case: the oceans are now a front in geoeconomic competition, and markets are not paying nearly enough attention.

There is a growing disconnect at the heart of the AI investment narrative, and UBS Chief Investment Officer Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi is naming it directly.

by SIACharts.com Manulife Financial Corporation (MFC.TO) ranks 10th of 62 stocks in the SIA S&P-TSX 60 Index Report, placing it in the Favored Green Zone. Its position is unchanged over the past month and down three places over the past quarter. The stock carries a SIA SMAX score of 9/10. Manulife has returned 3.53% over the past month, 8.72% over the past quarter and 27.17% year to date. The S&P-TSX Composite Index returned −2.91%, 1.46% and 11.91% over the same periods, respectively.

Looking beyond AI AI dominated the headlines, but there were several signals outside technology. In Europe, the improvement was broader than one sector. Banks delivered better profitability, while defense companies benefited from full backlogs. The consumer picture was mixed. Lower-income demand softened as fuel and essential spending took more of household budgets. Travel, housing-adjacent spending and premium experiences held up better. Healthcare was also uneven.