SCAP News and Press, AdvisorShares Cornerstone Small Cap ETF Advisorshares Trust From 04/17/20

The deep recession triggered by the coronavirus is the worst downturn since the Great Depression, but the hope is that the rebound will be equally swift and strong-a 'V' recovery. Unfortunately, the outlook for this best-case scenario is precarious. Some Federal Reserve officials are managin...

The Federal Reserve released data on industrial production for March 2020 and there is little doubt left that the United States economy has begun a period of economic recession. But, do the data point to the possibility that the US economy was already heading for a recession without the adve...

No. Let me just tell you right off the bat that I am not talking about the most recent twenty-eight years of history. Actually, we now live in exceptionally normal times (statistically speaking). T'was not always thus. Background The difference between the earnings yield on the S&P...

The stock market has been a strange reflection of and reaction to the unfolding of the coronavirus pandemic -predominantly displaying volatility and uncertainty. Oil markets have been particularly volatile given the conflict between Saudi Arabia and Russia, which resulted in production increas...

Source: jooin.com The Retirement Investing Approach Right Now As an American citizen who has worked a lifetime to have a more secure financial future and golden retirement years, I am finding it more difficult to point to any winning strategy right now. That's especially as we begi...

The Nasdaq 100, as represented by Invesco’s QQQ ETF ( QQQ ) is a future focused index. Many of its constituent stocks have minimal near-term earnings with business models geared toward capturing market share in hopes of one day turning that market share into profit. As a major index, ...

My last article on 4/9/2020 attempted to bring attention to all of the bottoming patterns that were forming in the market. At the time, one-year charts from almost every sector in the market showed signs of bottoming. As you would guess, not a widely popular opinion at the time. Fast forwa...

We are living through unprecedented times in the market. After the sharpest decline in history, meaning the fastest decline of 30% or more from the highs, markets made a spectacular recovery in just a couple of weeks. As of the time of this writing, the S&P 500 is down by 18% from its hi...

The US economy is in uncharted territory. The BCI signaled a recession warning on 4/2/2020. Regardless of the signal, we need to know how the COVID-19 pandemic has, or has not, influenced the calculations. Table 1 lists the economic data that the BCI uses and combines the components for the in...

Introduction The recovery in equities in the past two weeks caught many market participants by surprise as investors were preparing themselves for a sustained period of equity market weakness and elevated price volatility. Figure 1 shows that US equities ( SPY ) are up over 30% since their...