SCAP News and Press, AdvisorShares Cornerstone Small Cap ETF Advisorshares Trust From 05/04/20

By Jeff Weniger, CFA So much for crashes bringing valuations back to Earth. Here we are in the middle of an economic depression - one that maybe lasts a few months, or maybe one that goes on for a long while - and yet the Russell 1000 Growth Index is still trading for 27 times trailing ...

By Mark Barnes, head of US research and product management The Q1 2020 sell-off left investors asking themselves, "Where should we have invested?" The conventional wisdom is that defensive strategies tend to be best suited to protecting portfolios during market downturns [1] . Defensive f...

By Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist The level of opportunity will vary greatly by location and sector As a growing number of US states have started to incrementally reopen their economies (under a variety of measures such as mask usage and capacity restrictions), we go...

U.S. first-quarter GDP plunged profoundly negative, but real GDP would have crashed even harder if not for bogus BEA data revisions . According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis ((BEA)), the U.S. economy contracted 4.8% annually in the March quarter. Stocks soared on the news for two app...

Good morning and welcome to a weekend that would have featured the “most exciting two minutes in sports”, but instead we are watching Michael Jordan’s Netflix (NFLX) series — also exciting. Needless to say markets have been anything but boring as we had a first-perc...

On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Chief Investment Strategist Erik Ristuben and Head of AIS Business Solutions Sophie Antal Gilbert discussed recent economic headlines, the slowing of the coronavirus, and the latest actions the U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed) is taking to hel...

In a CBB from a decade or so ago, I noted that at the commencement of WWII, President Roosevelt marshaled an agreement from the major warring parties to avoid the bombing of civilian targets. It was not long, however, before civilians living near military installations were considered unfortun...

The title to this update is likely the most repeated phrase you have heard over the last month from market participants and analysts alike. As more and more bad economic news is presented through the media, somehow, the market just keeps grinding higher. I think this picture taken from one o...

Responding to rumors that he had taken ill and died while on a speaking tour in Europe, Mark Twain told The New York Times: "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." Well, I don't want to "greatly exaggerate," but I think it's fair to say that the 60/40 portfolio is dead. Or at the ...

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,...