• Citigroup’s CIO kept a constructive view for 3Q26, urging investors to stay fully invested despite policy-driven volatility risk in 2H26.
• U.S. large-cap equities remained the preferred risk asset, citing strong earnings growth, productivity leadership, and secular tailwinds.
• Fixed-income stance stayed underweight duration, favoring short- to intermediate-term bonds on higher-for-longer rate expectations.
• Credit view shifted up in quality, warning tight lower-quality spreads do not compensate for incremental risk.
• Cybersecurity was added as a structural theme, with AI expected to lift attack sophistication and sustain enterprise security spending.

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