Before jumping into the Week Ahead, we at First Foundation want to express our condolences to everyone affected by the coronavirus. We recognize that these are extremely difficult times, but we also believe we will persevere through this crisis as we have before.
With the number of coronavirus infections likely to peak in the United States this week, many investors have started looking forward to economic recovery. Market pundits are..
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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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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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