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Global Weekly Commentary: Warming up to Europe
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Europe’s policy response to the virus shock was slow to get going – but an impressive array of fiscal and monetary measures is getting into place to bridge the economy through the shock.
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Weekly Investment Commentary: A sharp risk-off trade returns
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Stocks snapped a three-week winning streak as markets sank sharply last week. Worries about an uptick in coronavirus cases, the Federal Reserve’s downbeat assessment of long-term economic growth and President Trump’s declining poll numbers all contributed to negative sentiment.
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Global Weekly Commentary: Private markets as diversifiers
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Public markets were at the center of market action as risk assets sold off amid the spreading pandemic and then rebounded amid an overwhelming policy response.
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Weekly Investment Commentary: Stocks rally on better employment and economic news
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The S&P 500 Index rose 4.7% last week, posting its third weekly gain of 3% or more for the first time in 38 years.
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Global Weekly Commentary: Policy revolution: What’s next?
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Macroeconomic policy has gone through a needed revolution to cushion the coronavirus shock. It essentially aims to “go direct” and is blurring fiscal and monetary policies.
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Weekly Investment Commentary: Stocks break out to the upside on economic and vaccine hopes
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Stocks rose again last week, marking the first time since mid-April that equities enjoyed gains for two consecutive weeks.
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Global Weekly Commentary: China emerges from virus lockdowns
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China’s economy – the first to enter lockdowns and the first to emerge from them – is restarting. We see the economy likely returning to near-trend growth by late 2020, supported by policy stimulus, especially on the monetary front.
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Weekly Investment Commentary: We may be moving past the worst of the recession
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Stocks reversed course last week, with the S&P 500 Index rising 3.3%. Investors were encouraged by progress with vaccine trials, indications that the Federal Reserve would remain accommodative for the foreseeable future and preliminary signs that economic growth was starting to recover.