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The Week Ahead – Flattening the Curve

Welcome to “The Week Ahead” where we take a moment to provide our thoughts on what we can expect in markets and the economy during the upcoming week.

For those who joined our Wealth Management Insights call this past week, you’ll recall that my colleague Rick Keller and I both made comments on the speed of which both monetary and fiscal policy was enacted relative to the Great Financial Recession in 2008. The Fed especially went out of its way..

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Investments & Economy The Week Ahead Grow

The Week Ahead – Light at the End of the Tunnel

By | 3/23/20 8:04 AM Brett Dulyea, CFA, CAIA
| 3/23/20 8:04 AM

Welcome to “The Week Ahead” where we take a moment to provide our thoughts on what we can expect in markets and the economy during the upcoming week.

This week all eyes will be on Thursday morning’s unemployment claims report. The state of Kentucky received 9,000 claims just last Tuesday. This sounds like an innocuous amount, but when you consider that on average they get 2,000 claims a week, it really puts things into perspective as to what..

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Market Action Update: Revenge of the Bears

The S&P 500 bull market in the United States has finally ended. Beginning March 9, 2009, hitting new record highs on February 19, 2020, and finally ending on March 12, 2020. One of the most hated and reluctant bull runs in history as many investors found reasons to stay in cash after the psychological pain of the Great Financial Recession. 132 straight months climbing multiple walls of worries. The 2009-2020 bull market saw a price return of..

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