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The global market is in the early recovery phase of the business cycle following the COVID-19 recession. This implies an extended period of low-inflation, low-interest-rate growth - an environment that usually favors equities over bonds. But after such a rapid rebound, an equity market pu...

I am hopeful that there won't be a major second wave of infections, but I believe there is a good possibility that there will be one. But if most countries are able to avoid wide-scale lockdowns, the negative impact to the global economy should be relatively low, in my view. The stock...

Many investors are worried about the election's effect on the stock market, most often through a Biden victory leading to actual - or feared - measures that would clobber corporations. There is truth in the assertion that the market likes Republican victories, but the magnitude is pre...

The NASDAQ Composite Index broke a three-week losing streak gaining 1.1% last week while the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average extended losses for the fourth straight week. The main contributors to the recent pullback in the markets are last week’s announcement t...

For 94 years, the "average, annual" return for large-cap stocks, which per the Ibbotson data is the S&P 500, is above 10%, and probably closer to 12%. The only return period that matched or roughly approximates the 103-year average, annual return for the S&P 500 is the decade ...

"Enormous Uncerntainty." That is how SimplyWise stated the situation in their latest "retirement confidence survey." There are several critical issues in the index which encapsulate the ongoing financial distress that existed before the pandemic, but have since markedly worsened. ...

We anticipate investors may switch their focus back and forth between 2020-Q4 and 2021-Q1 several times before the end of the 2020 calendar year. Chicago Fed President Charles Evans 'accidentally' set a new expectation the Fed's future monetary policy would be less expansionary than i...

The investing environment will never be free of uncertainty. We can use this uncertainty to our advantage - getting positioned to make the most of the opportunity while trying to steer clear of unnecessary risks. Adapting to the ever-changing and unforeseen conditions with which t...

Over the last couple of weeks, we have been discussing the ongoing market correction. The sell-off has been orderly and not one of a "panic" induced decline. Given the challenges facing the markets over the intermediate term from a "contested election," a lack of financial support...

The numbers are just monstrous. The Fed's own data illuminate the historic monetary disorder that today runs wild. Unprecedented stimulus and market intervention from the Federal Reserve and global central bank community unleashed epic market speculation (in the face of rapidly deteri...