This week the podcast is back to tackling hot topics and the most interesting things that crossed our desk last week. Three big things you need to know: First, corporate confidence, capex, and balance sheets were all new topics in focus in our investor meetings last week. Second, things that jumped out in our high frequency indicators included one of our main sentiment indicators starting to look more stretched, stabilization in Biden’s polling numbers, and strengthening in US equity funds flows – which collectively illustrate how the near-term outlook for the US equity market has gotten a bit murkier. Third, we highlight our initial thoughts on the weekend’s developments in Russia from a US equity market perspective.