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Reason for concern
Increased internet-connected devices and availability of open source code have lowered the barriers to entry for cyber actors, leading to increased attacks.
Cyberattacks are increasingly becoming part of the arsenal of nation states. For example, North Korea’s cyber capabilities are growing in scale and sophistication.
Many companies have witnessed sharp share price declines after disclosing cyberattacks in recent years.
Attacks have typically targeted companies with large amounts of personal data.
Chatter down, risk up
Market talk of cyberattacks has edged down, making the potential market impact bigger.
BlackRock Geopolitical Risk Indicator
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Sources: BlackRock Investment Institute, with data from Thomson Reuters. Data as of December 14, 2018. Notes: We identify specific words related to this geopolitical risk and use text analysis to calculate the frequency of their appearance in the Thomson Reuters Broker Report and Dow Jones Global Newswire databases as well as on Twitter. We then adjust for whether the language reflects positive or negative sentiment, and assign a score. A zero score represents the average BGRI level over its history from 2003 up to that point in time. A score of one means the BGRI level is one standard deviation above the average. We weigh recent readings more heavily in calculating the average. The BGRI’s risk scenario is for illustrative purposes only and does not reflect all possible outcomes as geopolitical risks are ever-evolving.
MARKET INSIGHT
Should markets take note of cyberattacks?
CHART OF THE WEEK
Keep a cool head in the risk rally
Risk appetite has rebounded in 2019. We remain modestly and selectively overweight equities – and moderately pro-risk in general – but would caution against expectations for the early-2019 rally to roar on.
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Global equities return and earnings revisions ratio, 2014-2019
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Past performance is not a reliable indicator of current or future results. It is not possible to invest directly in an index. Sources: BlackRock Investment Institute, with data from MSCI and Thomson Reuters, March 2019. Notes: We use the MSCI ACWI Index to represent global equities. Return refers to the total return of the index in U.S. dollars, rebased to 100 at the start of 2014. Earnings revisions ratio refers to a three-month moving average of the number of analyst earnings upgrades relative to the numbers of downgrades over a month.
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Keep a cool head in the risk rally
MARKET INSIGHT
U.S. recession? Not quite
We see a slowdown in global growth and corporate earnings in 2019 as the U.S. economy approaches a late-cycle phase. We don’t see a recession as near, but growing economic and market uncertainty means investors may want to position portfolios accordingly.
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