2025 Mid-Year Outlook: Comfortably Uncomfortable
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While politics and policy continue to dominate the headlines, market reaction has been more muted. The recent strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities remind investors that geopolitical events rarely have a lasting impact on markets. Despite rising uncertainty in the Middle East, oil prices have declined and stocks continue to push to new all-time highs. We continue to see upside in gold, both as a geopolitical hedge and as a beneficiary of a weakening U.S. dollar.
Real-time growth and inflation data remain encouraging, but it takes time for trade policy to work its way through the economy. We expect the impact of tariffs and the sentiment shock from “Liberation Day” (the April 2 announcement of U.S. tariffs) to have greater economic impact in the coming months. Our outlook anticipates a growth slowdown in the second half, but not a recession. We will keep a close eye on the resilience of the labor market as a key indicator of economic strength. Progress in trade negotiations has reduced global economic tail risks, and we have upgraded our growth expectation for China. In our view, the U.S. dollar will continue to weaken over the coming months.
Equity markets continue to rally, but history tells us that investing at all-time highs has proved to be a good strategy. While we are now approaching our year-end base case targets for the S&P 500, we still see compelling opportunities in high-conviction sectors such as technology and financials. The artificial intelligence (AI) story is once again center stage for investors. Hyperscalers continue to pursue aggressive spending plans to build AI infrastructure, and broader adoption is creating new possibilities in industries such as software and utilities. Financials should benefit from potential deregulation, which is expected to free up capital for lending, increased M&A and shareholder returns.
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