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Locking in near-term profits
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Expecting challenging fundamental news in coming weeks, we pared our allocation to equities.
Investing Ideas
Seeking shelter means being active
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As investors navigate this storm, ESG is becoming a leading quality factor.
Market Outlooks
Virtual girl
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As Linda settles in at home, she ponders if we're getting ahead of ourselves.
Market Outlooks
[Webinar] Investing with a Goals-Based Framework
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Investing with a Goals-Based Framework Webinar
Date: April 1, 2020
Time: 12 PM ET / 11 AM CT
Market Outlooks
Weekly Macro Update: Fear Itself
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This is one of those moments in markets when the news and data and price monitors spill off the screen like a bad 3-D movie and mix seamlessly with shreds of personal worries.
Market Outlooks
Weekly Macro Update: Metternich, Modi & Markets
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European diplomacy once centered on a theory that the best way to keep peace and stabilize financial markets was to preserve a "balance of power" that would prevent any one country from growing too strong and pushing others around. But with global supply chains—and the world's economy—under threat from epidemics, technology rifts and tariffs, President Donald Trump's efforts to balance China’s rise with a visit to India this week look very much like yesterday's answer to today's problems.
Market Outlooks
A four-month shopping spree
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Measured from October to January, holiday retail sales impressed.
Policy and Regulatory Commentary
Economic Indicators Suggest President Trump's Reelection
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In testimony on Capitol Hill this week, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell repeatedly praised the strength of the U.S. economy across multiple indicators. He pointed to an historically-low unemployment rate, rising wages, and continual, moderate overall growth. Powell has a notably turbulent relationship with President Donald Trump, but his assessment should have been music to the ears of top White House and Trump campaign officials (even if the president could not help live-Tweeting his criticism of Powell’s testimony). The economy, after all, is historically perhaps the most reliable presidential election indicator.
Policy and Regulatory Commentary
The End of the Caucus?
So that didn’t go as planned. While politicos inside the Beltway and across the country were expecting to get our first real results in the Democratic presidential primary last night, problems with tallying the vote in Iowa have caused a significant delay in reporting the results. In a story posted yesterday, The Associated Press reported Iowa Democratic Party officials had promised that “an early issue with a mobile app designed to report results” would “not hinder the Iowa caucus process.”