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The Week Ahead – Week 1 Done, 51 to Go

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.

What a first week to kick of 2021! Civil unrest at our Nation’s Capitol Building. Confirmation of the Electoral College’s votes. Georgia’s Senate runoffs. Presidential impeachment 2.0. Twitter. Yet the investment markets continued to trek onward as the S&P 500 gained 1.88%. Investors initially..

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Investments & Economy The Week Ahead Grow

The Week Ahead – New Year, New Economy

By | 1/4/21 9:01 AM Brett Dulyea, CFA, CAIA
| 1/4/21 9:01 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.

As we head into 2021, the focus is squarely on distributing vaccines and getting to a future where Covid-19 is discussed in the past tense. Of course, the last time we had a pandemic of this magnitude was almost exactly one-hundred years ago. There have been many parallels drawn between the..

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The Week Ahead – We Made It

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. 

Despite a long-awaited and much-discussed stimulus agreement and concerns over a new strain of Covid-19 (spreading 70% faster than earlier variants), the market was relatively quiet this week (by 2020 standards). As is typical this time of the year, investors have seemingly closed up shop for..

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