Morgan Stanley Shifts Strategy Amid Middle East Conflict

0:00It's March 30th. You're listening to Canada News today, AI-powered local news. Morgan Stanley just switched up their playbook on investments, dropping global stocks to equal weight from overweight while boosting cash and US. Treasuries to overweight from equal weight. It's all tied to the Middle East conflict, ramping up uncertainty, pushing folks towards safe havens. All prices aren't fire, with Brent Crew jumping 59% this month. It's biggest monthly surge ever, topping even the 1990 Gulf. War levels. Futures hit over $116 a barrel, Monday, and strategist Warren if it sticks around 150 to 180. Dollars, global stock values could tank nearly 25%. Investors are pulling back from risk, especially hitting US and Japanese stocks now both at equal weight. Japan faces extra pain from supply chain snarls and recession fears if key shipping routes stay jammed. But US stocks still live better than most regions thanks to stronger earnings growth, and

1:03fund flows are flooding back into American equities, and bonds since the conflict kicked off last month. This marks a big reversal from last year, when Terrafor is sent money elsewhere. Now US assets are the go-to defense, especially Treasuries, since America relies less on imported energy than Europe. Keep watching those oil moves, they could reshape the whole market flow.