SCAP News and Press, AdvisorShares Cornerstone Small Cap ETF Advisorshares Trust From 05/03/20

By Eric Winograd The onslaught of the coronavirus forced the Federal Reserve and lawmakers to take desperately needed measures. The US economy will eventually recover, but the effects of these drastic policy decisions will be felt for a long time. Since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis,...

By Frank Caruso and John Fogarty The COVID-19 shutdown has prompted an unprecedented number of US companies to suspend earnings guidance. Equity investors should focus fundamental research on a wider range of outcomes instead of the overly precise game of predicting short-term estimates - ...

The stock market just had its best month since 1987. And the economy just had one of its worst months ever. How is this possible? What is going on? Is it all a conspiracy by the Fed? Are stock traders just insane? All of the above? What do we make of all this? Let’s talk about it. ...

Unemployment has several faces. It will be interesting to see how America handles the massive unemployment caused not so much by Covid-19 but the government's effort to hold employers responsible for the cost. When the government passed a law increasing employers' responsibility for paying wor...

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It is a light economic calendar if measured by the number of reports but an important one given the focus on employment. We will get reports from ADP, the “official” BLS employment situation numbers, and the weekly early indicator from jobless claims. Whatever else happens in the...

While we have made tremendous strides fighting the coronavirus, we want to temper some of that enthusiasm as it relates to the markets as we have a long way to go until things are settled. Clearly it is good news that growth in the number of new cases of the coronavirus is cresting which will ...

Purpose I look at the high frequency weekly indicators because while they can be very noisy, they provide a good nowcast of the economy and will telegraph the maintenance or change in the economy well before monthly or quarterly data is available. They also are an excellent way to "mark yo...

"I don't care how many cold, clinical, unfeeling, and antiseptic spreadsheets you use to run the money, Fear and Greed are undefeated” . ... Josh Brown Times have changed. The 50th Jazz & Heritage Festival in the city of New Orleans would typically have been in full swing t...

The FOMC met this week for its first Fed funds interest rate decision since the two emergency cuts in March. As expected, the policy rate was left unchanged at 0% with the markets focusing more on the various relief measures in response to the coronavirus pandemic and now looking ahead towards...