SCAP News and Press, AdvisorShares Cornerstone Small Cap ETF Advisorshares Trust From 05/07/20

While most individual investors are focused on yesterday, today and tomorrow, the market is far ahead of them, looking at least three to six months down the road. How else do you explain a 35% rally in the Nasdaq and a 33% rally in the S&P 500 while the vast majority of the U.S. economy ...

A reader saw a disturbing article and sent me a question about it. I suspect that many other readers of this article were also worried. It was a mainstream media article using data from a reputable source. Despite these credentials, the title, Will the stock market tumble back to its coronav...

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. – Aristotle Inequality has been growing in America, that's no secret. From the 99% movement, a populist uprising, and polarized politics, some changes are happening today that we have not seen in a long time. I m...

The bond market and the financial stocks may be sending a dire warning sign for the stock market. For the most part, it seems investors are missing out on the signals that are being sent. If the warning signs prove to be correct, it could suggest a market reversal is now in the works. The S&...

It wasn't entirely unexpected, though when it was announced it was still quite a lot to take in. On September 1, 2005, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported that the nation's personal savings rate had turned negative during the month of July. The press release announcing the number,...

By Nick Kalivas, Senior Equity Product Strategist Investors seeking to manage volatility may want to consider strategies that provide access to quality companies that show signs of financial strength History has shown that long-term investment returns are achieved by remaining inve...

When 2020 started, the word corona was most associated with a brand of beer. Now after six weeks of lockdown and a double-digit unemployment rate, it's a social, economic, and political reality. I don't know what will happen over the next months and years for those graduating with me in the cl...

Things are going to get messy. Stock indices from the United States to Europe were in rally mode as investors bet on a return to business activity in the eurozone and some US states. In energy, most segments of the US economy are seeing an increase in refinery activity and implied demand for p...

By Philip Lawlor, managing director, Global Markets Research Global equities posted the strongest monthly gains in years (if not decades) in April, recouping much of their pandemic-driven losses since late February. Markets rode hopes that sustained central-bank liquidity support and moves...

By Joshua Jamner, CFA Not All Regions and Industries Are Impacted by COVID-19 Equally In recent weeks, investors have shifted their focus from how deep a recession might be to what the path of the recovery might look like. While no one can know how the economy and the spread of COVID-19 ...