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Hunkering Down for a Recession

By Gina Sanchez, Ibrahim Gassambe and Dayna Goodwin
Sep 1, 2011 4:00:00 PM | Last Updated

  • Since downgrading our equity outlook on August 1, we’ve advised investors to reduce their exposure on strength, as we expect the environment to further deteriorate despite the sharp revision in expectations. We are taking the current strength as an opportunity to close our equity versus cash overweight, bringing it to neutral, and close our emerging markets (EM) versus developed markets (DM) overweight.
  • The RGE Economic Research Team now expects a recession in Q1 2012 and has sharply revised its growth forecast for the U.S. to 1.5% for 2011 and the 0.6-1.0% range for 2012, well[...]

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