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Weekly Market Snapshot: February 12, 2021
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Weekly Market Compass: Has "irrational exuberance" gotten the better of markets?
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Well, let me try to answer that question based on my own experience. I entered the financial services industry in late 1995, a bright-eyed and eager runaway from the practice of law. Not soon afterward, I listened intently to a historic speech by then-Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, who suggested that the stock market was exhibiting “irrational exuberance.
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BMO Market Charts - February 08, 2021
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Despite the changes in rates over the last decade, income has been the primary driver of total return for high yield corporate bonds.
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Weekly Market Snapshot: February 5, 2021
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Weekly Market Compass: Market speculation hit a new level this week with GameStop, and the Fed threw cold water on inflation concerns.
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The Federal Reserve (Fed) met last week and, as I expected, Fed Chair Jay Powell reassured markets that it doesn’t have a trigger finger when it comes to inflation. In his press conference following the meeting, Powell showed concern that the economic recovery had moderated and stressed that it was more dangerous to do too little than to do too much to support the economy (a sentiment echoed by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen last week as well).
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BMO Market Charts - February 01, 2021
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With expectations for reduced trade tensions and a potentially weaker dollar, earnings for Emerging Market companies are expected to recover relative to developed markets.
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Weekly Market Snapshot: January 29, 2021
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Weekly Market Compass: The next few months could be a slog for these economies
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What a week — both the S&P 500 and NASDAQ Composite Indexes reached all-time highs last Thursday, but we also saw a reversal of the rotation from growth/defensives to cyclicals in both European and US markets.
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Weekly Market Snapshot: January 22, 2021
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BMO Market Charts - January 25, 2021
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2020 was a record year for stocks - for the first time in four decades, the S&P 500 finished the year with a double-digit gain after suffering an intra-year drawdown of more than 30%.
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BMO Market Charts - January 19, 2021
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Economic stimulus in perspective: the stimulus response to the COVID-19 crisis has meaningfully outpaced the response to the 2008 financial crisis, according to research by McKinsey & Co.
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Weekly Market Snapshot: January 15, 2021
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