What Alfonso Peccatiello is saying
Founder, The Macro Compass
4 dated public stances tracked since 2025-08-27, most recently 2025-08-27. Each line carries the date and the venue it came from; quotation marks mean verbatim. Methodology.
The stances below are c8alpha's editorial distillation of Alfonso Peccatiello's public commentary — television, podcasts, and interviews — compiled by automated transcript analysis and dated to the episode they came from. They may lag the speaker's current view and may contain extraction errors. Text in quotation marks is verbatim from the episode; everything else is our paraphrase. Alfonso Peccatiello is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
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2025-08-27
European Equities
bullish
Forward Guidance · video
Eastern European equity markets have delivered ~40% annualized returns over five years (matching or beating US AI stocks) yet remain almost entirely absent from institutional portfolios, and are now getting a fiscal tailwind as Europe breaks its austerity…
“Poland, Czech Republic — these markets are flying and I think there is something to be said there for a bullish story that is largely underowned.”
90d +2.3% · 180d +15.1% · 1y +20.9%
Trump’s Tariffs Could Stall Growth Before 2026 Surge | Alfonso Peccatiello
2025-08-27
GOLD
bullish
Forward Guidance · video
Metals are policymaker protest assets that trend when the Fed is politically accommodative and nominal growth runs above neutral, and Trump has no incentive to constrain metal prices unlike oil
“Does he have anything against an increase in silver or gold or copper? Probably not. So you want to own a diversified basket of commodities.”
90d +21.5% · 180d +53.9% · 1y +35.1%
Trump’s Tariffs Could Stall Growth Before 2026 Surge | Alfonso Peccatiello
2025-08-27
USTS
bearish
Forward Guidance · video
Political capture of the FOMC pushes Fed funds toward neutral while nominal growth stays above neutral due to fiscal stimulus and AI capex, forcing an inflation and term-risk premium into the long end that paper assets cannot absorb
“You cannot own bonds that easily in that situation, especially the 10-year plus part of the curve.”
Trump’s Tariffs Could Stall Growth Before 2026 Surge | Alfonso Peccatiello
2025-08-27
BANKS
bullish
Forward Guidance · video
European banks are undergoing Japan-style shareholder-friendly consolidation, returning capital, and are massively underowned after a decade of poor earnings — now benefiting from rising nominal yields and a fiscal regime shift in Europe
“What is the ticker for European banks? It's going up. What is this thing? It really tells you something about the sentiment.”
90d -2.6% · 180d +3.6% · 1y +14.3%
Trump’s Tariffs Could Stall Growth Before 2026 Surge | Alfonso Peccatiello
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