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The Week Ahead – Sharp Rallies and Steep Retreats

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.

Markets endured a volatile stretch last week, reacting to coronavirus fears, central bank intervention, and the resurgence of Joe Biden. As stocks toggled between sharp rallies and steep retreats, the heightened uncertainty has fueled a sharp rally in perceived safe-haven assets; 10-year UST..

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Market Action Update: Booster Shots

Global equity markets started 2020 priced for a goldilocks scenario: a low interest rate environment, accommodative central banks, a thawing trade war between the United State and China, and a global economy continuing to churn out slow growth a decade after the Great Financial Recession. Even as early macro events threatened investor sentiment (Iran/U.S conflict of 2020, the accidental shooting down of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752,..

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The Week Ahead – Black Swan

By | 3/2/20 8:32 AM Brett Dulyea, CFA, CAIA
| 3/2/20 8:32 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.

The possibility of a global pandemic always weighs on investors’ minds, but it is such a low probability event that we refer to it as a black swan. In investment jargon, a black swan is an unpredictable event that is beyond what is normally expected and has potentially severe consequences. The..

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