VGFO News and Press, Virtus WMC Global Factor Opportunities ETF From 03/18/20

By Francis A. Scotland Investors are in full panic mode as COVID-19 morphs into an official global pandemic. The Dow-Jones Industrial Average went from a 52-week high to a 52-week low in 10 days, the fastest reversal ever recorded. The scale of volatility registering across markets refle...

By Kristina Hooper , Chief Global Market Strategist; Brian Levitt , Global Market Strategist, North America Weekly Market Compass: Healthcare, monetary, and fiscal policy will all play critical roles in combating this crisis The coronavirus pandemic is spreading in Europe, th...

By Jill Mislinski All eight indexes on our world watch list posted losses through March 16, 2020. The top performer is China's Shanghai with a loss of 5.33%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng is in second with a loss of 14.75% and in third is India's BSE SENSEX with a loss of 17.33%. Coming in last is...

We're going to see an economic contraction due to COVID-19. No one knows how deep it will be, but there are going to be sectors of the economy that experience depression-like pain. Restaurants, bars, travel, etc. are very likely to see 50%+ year-over-year declines in revenue. I don't know how ...

As forecast last week, the spread of COVID-19 has generated severe financial market volatility, which was substantially worsened by the breakdown in production discipline within the global energy market, reflecting the stand-off between Russia and Saudi Arabia. This has triggered further sev...

By Tobias Adrian, Financial Counsellor and Director of the IMF's Monetary and Capital Markets Department This blog is part of a special series on the response to the coronavirus. The global spread of the coronavirus is a human tragedy unfolding across the world. Quantifying the econo...

The new coronavirus, which causes the new disease COVID-19, is the major uncertainty in the global economy, with the potential to trigger a worldwide recession. The path of the disease and its economic consequences are highly uncertain. Most likely, the world will see rolling recessions as the...

Originally published March 3, 2020 Widespread fear of the Coronavirus has led to market turmoil and uncertainty, and it is important that the Fed responds accordingly. Scott Sumner is the Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a...

Let's say President Trump is right about the coronavirus "miraculously" fading away as temperatures rise in the Summer. Will things then go back to the old normal of globalization, free trade and finance-driven "growth"? Almost certainly not, because the psychological damage has already be...

By Jeffrey Halley After the strong earthquakes that shook financial markets yesterday, Asia appears to be emerging from the rubble and dust clouds. US equity indices futures, oil, and Asian stock markets are all moving sharply higher in the last hour. The reason for the sharp moves highe...