Macro Update & Top Ideas - March 2026
Key Topics
With oil, equities, and peace talks reshaping markets in real time, this is the context every serious investor needs right now. Don’t miss Tom and Mark’s most detailed read yet on where things stand.
In this special report:
-The single oil market signal Tom is tracking daily to gauge whether the equity bull case is intact
-Mark’s maximum downside target for the S&P and the exact price levels on $NVDA and $AAPL he’s watching to assess whether tech holds
-Why US equities are structurally better positioned than Europe and Asia through this conflict, and why that matters for where you allocate
-A signal in gold that has appeared only five times in 50 years, and what it has historically meant for stocks in the months that followed
-The short gold / long crypto trade: Tom’s year-long view, and the specific technical setup Mark is waiting for before putting it on
-Fundstrat’s just-updated Top 5 large-cap ideas and Top 5 SMID ideas, with Mark’s technical read on every name
-Private credit: Tom’s current read on the headline risk and whether it poses a systemic threat to the broader market
Markets are moving fast. This session gives you the framework to follow them.
Panel of Speakers
Thomas Lee, CFA AC
Head of Research
Thomas Lee is a Managing Partner and the Head of Research at Fundstrat Global Advisors. He is an accomplished Wall Street strategist with over 25 years of experience in equity research, and has been top-ranked by Institutional Investor every year since 1998. Prior to co-founding Fundstrat, he served as J.P. Morgan’s Chief Equity Strategist from 2007 to 2014, and previously as Managing Director at Salomon Smith Barney. His areas of expertise include Market Strategy, Small/Mid-Cap Strategy and Telecom Services. Mr. Lee received his BSE from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in Finance and Accounting. He is a CFA charterholder and is an active member of NYSSA and the NY Economic Club.
Mark L. Newton, CMT AC
Head of Technical Strategy
As former managing member/owner of Newton Advisors LLC, Mark has over 25 years of buy- and sell-side experience. Before Fundstrat, he worked at Diamondback Capital Management, and at Morgan Stanley, as a technical strategist. Mark has traded equity options as a market maker / floor trader on the CBOE, and has worked in risk management. He is a member of the Market Technicians Association, and former member of the CBOE, CBOT, and PHLX. He makes regular appearances on CNBC, FOX Business, and Bloomberg. Mark graduated with a BS in Finance from Virginia Tech in 1991, obtaining his Chartered Market Technician designation in 2002.