UBS On-Air: Market Moves

As we officially move into the second-half of 2025, Jason assesses the factors that have driven recent market performance and investor sentiment, along with outlines CIO’s near-to-medium term market outlook. Plus, a review the portfolio positioning recommendations per the July UBS House View. Featured is Jason Draho, Head of Asset Allocation Americas, UBS Chief Investment Office. Host: Daniel Cassidy

Over the past few days, Canada and the US stopped talking about trade, and started talking about trade again. Unusually, this was not a unilateral retreat by the US—Canada surrendered its digital services tax. Markets, quite rightly, are ignoring all of this. US President Trump cut taxes on US consumers of UK cars—from today the tax goes to 10%.

Join Jeff Hans, Portfolio Manager with UBS Asset Management, as he shares a performance update for US equities. We also cover an outlook for growth v. value, the ongoing impact of artificial intelligence to US technology stocks, along with takeaways from recent investor conferences. Recorded on 25.06.18

Hear from members of the UBS Chief Investment Office fixed income team as they provide a performance and positioning update across fixed income sub-sectors. Featured are Leslie Falconio, Head of Taxable Fixed Income Strategy Americas, Sudip Mukherjee, Senior Municipal Strategist Americas, along with Senior Fixed Income Strategists’ Barry McAlinden and Frank Sileo, from the UBS Chief Investment Office.

Japan exhibited some disinflation with the June Tokyo consumer price data. Using the international definition of core inflation, the rate slowed to 1.8% y/y. A lot of the headline inflation seems to be driven by non-fresh food, perhaps suggesting relative price shifts rather than strong, broad inflation momentum.