SCAP News and Press, AdvisorShares Cornerstone Small Cap ETF Advisorshares Trust From 05/09/20

U.S. labour marker data for April was released, and it was ugly, which should be a surprise to nobody. If we step back from considering the human costs of this downturn, the chart above demonstrates that a lot of data has lost information value courtesy of the nature of the pandemic. As shown...

With the stock markets near a critical juncture during the most-extreme economic dislocations of our lifetimes, big US stocks’ fundamentals have never been more important. After plummeting in a brutal stock panic on the catastrophic economic damage caused by governments’ draconia...

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 are also an excellent way to "mark yo...

"Do Not Be Fearful Or Negative Too Often." - Sir John Templeton This great investor went on to say: "For 100 years optimists have carried the day in U.S. stocks. Even in the dark ‘70s, many professional money managers, and many individual investors too, made money in stocks, e...

The Divergence I keep asking myself the same question each day when I look at the year-to-date return for the S&P 500, which is currently down approximately 10%. Are the revenues and profits of restaurants, malls, movie theaters, resorts, airlines, auto companies, retailers, cruise shi...

By Scott Bauer At a Glance Prior to COVID-19, lower rates from the Fed should have created an optimal opportunity for the Russell 2000 to outpace large-cap indices. The Russell 2000 flashed warning signs of an economic pullback throughout 2019. Since early 2019, the Russell 2000, t...

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection. - Warren Buffett Think about it – the lockdown in states began around the middle of March ...

Sideways for now The S&P 500 and the SPDR S&P 500 ETF ( SPY ) rallied ~34% after making a bottom on March 23. An impressive rally, no matter what kind of rally history ultimately decides to label it, over only a 27 day period. Since April 9 the ETF has settled into a range with a l...

Source The market (NYSEARCA: SPY ) has traded sideways for a week or so. I've been saying it's important to respect direction as a guide for trading. So sideways isn't a great guide. Still I think there's three fundamental reasons building that can potentially drive the next move low...

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 ...