SCAP News and Press, AdvisorShares Cornerstone Small Cap ETF Advisorshares Trust From 04/19/20

"I would never have thought a mutant flu virus could crash the global stock markets." - Steven Magee It is clear that the world is in uncharted territories. The COVID-19 outbreak continues to spread, with it easing in one country only for another to feel its wrath. The impact on human life...

This week's newsletter will be somewhat condensed as the bulk of our current positioning is based upon the information contained in the two reports referenced herein. The goal of this week's letter is simply to outline the market ranges which fall within the context of our current Macroview. ...

I know the title may sound unusual and almost unrealistic to those following the media cycle. With unemployment skyrocketing, GDP projections in the tank, bankruptcy expectations running sky high, and the average person on Main Street struggling terribly, how is this action even possible? So...

Excerpted with permission from Mark Cuban's "Blog Maverick" weblog: With the funds for the PPP depleted as of today, as we hope for another tranche of the same amount or more to be approved by the government, here are some of the issues I have had to address with small businesses I d...

I stated many times at the beginning of the year that we were in a "Borrower's Heaven" and a "Fixed-Income Investor's Hell." This was the case for several months as the economy rocked along and as borrowing became cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. Then, as the Coronavirus hit the markets, it tu...

For the Lipper fund-flows week ended Wednesday, April 15, 2020, investors appeared to be a little more game at putting risk back in their portfolios, injecting a net $62.9 billion into mutual funds and ETFs. Fund investors were net purchasers of money market funds (+$46.8 billion), taxable fix...

The weekly narrative on coronavirus continues to change for the better, shifting from the ever-growing number of cases and deaths to enough of a decline prompting the state-by-state "Opening up America Again." Social distancing, use of face masks and other precautionary measures will moderate ...

With equities surging into the close ahead of the weekend, traders are shrugging their shoulders wondering how the hell the market is rallying given the economic damage inflicted by the COVID-19 outbreak, which has been cited as the worst pandemic to hit the United States since the 1918 Spanis...

The economic data is catching up with reality, although the gap between the formal reports and what's unfolding in the real world remains huge. For the high-frequency numbers that capture the blowback from the coronavirus in close to real time, the results are painfully clear. In particular, t...

"Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game." - Evita Ochel There's an old saying that uncertainty breeds opportunity, and if that's the case, there is plenty of opportunities now. While the overall severity and gove...