Cocktail Investing

In this week's program, Tematica's investing mixologists, Chris Versace and Lenore Hawkins discuss the week's economic data, relevant political happenings and share where they have spotted a few of the latest Thematic Signals. A few highlights include:   While most Wall Street economists are still forecasting Q2 GDP to be around 3 percent, the NY Fed’s Nowcast and the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow are below 2 percent, with an even lower forecast for Q3. We point out what they are likely seeing that the usual Wall Street suspects are missing and why this could be problematic for 2Q 2017 earnings season. With the first half of 2017 almost over, only one other year going all the way back to 1928 has had a smaller maximum drawdown in equity indices during the first half. Find out what tends to happen in years where the first half sees such a steady move up. The yield curve is giving us a very different message from the major equity indices. We discuss what and why this is important for investors. We talk about what is ha