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Weekly Wire: Something worth paying attention to other than the election
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What – other than the election – should be commanding investor attention these days? Our vote would be the bond market. To help put politics and the bond market in the same neat little box, we turn to renowned political consultant James Carville, who in the early 1990s said, “I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter.
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Weekly Investment Commentary: Rising uncertainty slows economic acceleration
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Although the news trended in a negative direction last week, stocks held their ground and eked out modest gains, with the S&P 500 Index climbing 0.2%. Coronavirus cases have been rising in parts of the U.S. and throughout Europe, although mortality trends have been improving.
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Global Weekly Commentary: Restructuring opportunities
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Many companies may need to turn to private credit to restructure post-Covid. We see potential for such investments to serve as growth assets and diversifiers when new sources of portfolio resilience are needed.
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Weekly Wire: When it comes to the election, what is the market “pricing in?”
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Investors pay attention to the stock market not just because they are investing in it, but because they consider the market one of – if not the most – accurate of all leading indicators. Said differently, the market, in its infinite wisdom, will lead the real economy and will tell us where the world is headed.
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Student of the Market: October 2020
A monthly piece with timely charts and historical data leading into the election.
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Weekly Wire: Have we seen this movie before?
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Before we dive into the weekly wire there are two BIG disclaimers we need to address. First, we are not determining which political party bears responsibility for the state of fiscal stimulus negotiations.
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Weekly Investment Commentary: Stocks rally, but still face hurdles
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Equities rallied last week, with the S&P 500 Index up 3.8% and posting its best weekly performance in more than three months, marking its highest level since early September.
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Global Weekly Commentary: UK: a case study in virus dynamics
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We zero in on the UK this week to highlight the three main signposts we use to assess the impact of the coronavirus: the pace of the economic restart, the state of policy support and evidence of permanent economic damage.