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Alex Saunders
Alex Saunders is Head of Quant Macro Research (Director) at Citi Research, a frequent CNBC markets guest leading Citi's Quantitative Global Macro and Asset Allocation team.
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Markets Edition: Halloween Pullback — Tactical or Something More Sinister?
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2:29Alex SaundersGUEST
Dirk, I mean, to take the other side of that, just on credit spreads, I agree they're not tight, but they've certainly been tightening.
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2:38Alex SaundersGUEST
As you know, we run this macro regime model and that's giving some late cycle indicators.
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2:46Alex SaundersGUEST
But when financial conditions tighten, that can be a difficult time for risk assets.
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2:51Alex SaundersGUEST
And the model indeed moved underweight equities after being overweight for most of the year.
Stocks Rally Second Day in a Row 4/1/26
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Brian SullivanHOST
Do any of these headlines last couple of days make you think about pushing those ratings maybe back to like an overweight? And if not, what would?
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37:15Alex SaundersGUEST
We're not outright bearish on equities and we see this much more of a risk management exercise.
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37:27Alex SaundersGUEST
There's some technical positioning reasons that we saw potentially a rally yesterday.

Brian SullivanHOST
So can you just, in sort of layman's terms, please, because I know you know the inside of the market, explain to our audience that are not professional traders some of the mechanics that have been going on in the market the last couple of days.
Major Averages Retreat from Record Highs, But Still Head for Winning Month 8/29/25
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Brian SullivanHOST
When do you have like a real clear vision? Or maybe you and your team have one right now?
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4:58Alex SaundersGUEST
I would say that in terms of the transition, we're still dealing with tariff announcements and how those tariffs are gonna impact the data.
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5:11Alex SaundersGUEST
That we won't see until much later, probably in October, November of this year.
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5:17Alex SaundersGUEST
If we don't see any pickup in inflation, if growth still looks strong at that stage, given that those September technicals you had mentioned are out of the way, given that the technicals actually flip and potentially you have a holiday rally, we think that is a very, very good setup for equity.
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5:34Alex SaundersGUEST
So to a certain extent, we have to navigate this data that we're going to see in September plus the weak technical backdrop.
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5:41Alex SaundersGUEST
And then going forward into the end of the year, potentially there's a setup that could be Very equitable.