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The Week Ahead – Love Vaccine + Money

By | 2/16/21 8:40 AM Brett Dulyea, CFA, CAIA
| 2/16/21 8:40 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.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine’s Day weekend. In fact, there is a lot to love about the current positive trends for COVID-19. Cases are now falling by about 24% per week. We expect 140MM more people to be inoculated over the next two months, at which point the country will be very..

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Investments & Economy The Week Ahead Grow

The Week Ahead – Vaccines and Stimulus

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. 

Stocks rallied last week, with U.S. benchmarks back to a record high amid vaccine optimism, expectations for sizable fiscal stimulus, better-than-expected earnings, and rising inflation pressures. This market continues to move fast and violently, and prospects for the $1.9T coronavirus relief..

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The Week Ahead – What Happens When the Game Stops?

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.

Month 1 done, 11 months to go. After a week like last week and a month like January, all I can think of is of Russel Crowe’s Academy Award winning character from the movie Gladiator, Maximus Decimus Meridius, declaring after an action packed sequence in the arena, “Are you not entertained?” Civil..

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