After reviewing stocks (0:51), fixed income (3:28), commodities (6:14) and somewhat bearish macro news (8:11) for the week ended Nov. 10, DoubleLine Portfolio Manager Jeff Mayberry and Quantitative Analyst Eric Dhall cover the latest Fedspeak (14:34), including a bit of blue language by Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. Then for their Topic of the Week (17:53), they elaborate on the so-called Sahm Rule, a coincident recession indicator based on the 3-month moving average of the U-3 unemployment rate. Topping their watch list for the week of Nov. 13-17 (25:01) will be Tuesday’s release of the October print of the consumer price index. Other items on Jeff and Eric’s stakeout will be the NFIB small business optimism survey, producer price index, retail sales, import prices, initial jobless claims, industrial production and capacity utilization.
Mr. Mayberry joined DoubleLine in 2009. He is a Portfolio Manager on DoubleLine’s strategic commodity strategy while working in portfolio management and trading for derivatives‐based and multi‐asset strategies. Mr. Mayberry is a Strategist on the Fixed Income Asset Allocation Committee and a contributing member on our Global Asset Allocation and Macro committees. He also co-hosts DoubleLine’s weekly Monday Morning Minutes (Twitter @DLineMinutes, Minutes@Doubleline.com) podcast. Prior to DoubleLine, Mr. Mayberry was a Senior Vice President at TCW for nine years within the Mortgage Group, where he specialized in portfolio and fund monitoring and analytics. He holds a B.S. in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College and an M.S. in Financial Engineering from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University.
Mr. Lau joined DoubleLine in 2009. He is a Strategist on the Fixed Income Asset Allocation (FIAA) Committee and a contributing member on the Global Asset Allocation and Macro Committees. Mr. Lau is a Portfolio Manager on DoubleLine’s strategic commodity strategy while working in portfolio management and trading for derivatives-based and multi-asset strategies, including DoubleLine's Shiller Enhanced CAPE®, Shiller Enhanced International CAPE®, Real Estate and Income, and Multi-Asset Trend strategies. He also co-hosts the Sherman Show (Twitter @ShermanShowPod, ShermanShow@Doubleline.com) and Monday Morning Minutes (Twitter @DLineMinutes, Minutes@Doubleline.com) podcasts. Prior to DoubleLine, Mr. Lau was a Vice President at TCW where he worked under Jeffrey Gundlach as a Research Analyst in the Mortgage Group. He holds a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.
