John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended March 27th
Relief rally While it did little to ease the sting of recent losses that were on an even larger scale, stocks surged, and the major U.S. indexes posted weekly gains ranging from 9% to nearly 13%. Despite those results, the S&P 500 closed on Friday about 25% below its record high set just five […]
BlackRock: Q2 Equity Market Outlook
Down but not out. Stocks have tumbled on coronavirus fears, a hit no one could have predicted heading into 2020. Concerns around the economic and earnings impact are real, yet our long-term conviction in U.S. equities is intact. Markets have weathered serious disruptions over the years ― and rewarded patient investors. Strong underlying economic fundamentals […]
John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended March 20th
High anxiety It was another volatile stretch for stocks, as the S&P 500 tumbled 12.0% on Monday, then gained 6.0% on Tuesday, fell 5.2% on Wednesday, and rose 0.5% on Thursday—the index’s smallest move in nine trading days. On Friday, the index fell 4.3%, and the Cboe Volatility Index ended 14% above its closing […]
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Lord Abbett-Why Today’s Market Environment Isn’t the Same as 2008
While today’s volatile market environment may be generating flashbacks to the 2008 financial crisis, there are some major differences between what happened then and what’s happening now. Recent market volatility has been extreme, and has justifiably created some anxiety among many investors. While there is still considerable uncertainty around the speed and ultimate extent of the […]
Federated-A Fed Flood
The Federal Reserve slashed rates to near zero Sunday evening. The Federal Reserve pulled out almost all the stops on Sunday evening, lowering the fed funds target range by 100 basis points to a range of 0% to 0.25%. The Fed also announced intention to buy $500 billion of Treasury securities and $200 billion […]
John Hancock-Weekly Market Recap Week Ended March 13th
Bull to bear The bull market that began in March 2009 ended just after turning 11 years old, as fallout from the coronavirus outbreak triggered a dropoff in U.S. stock indexes. Despite a huge rally in the final half-hour of Friday’s trading, the S&P 500, Dow, and NASDAQ all posted weekly declines of more […]
Federated: Our Framework For Thinking About Covid-19
There are many unknowns but reasonable assumptions for now suggest short-term pain should give way eventually to long-term gains. But risks are real and need to be monitored. With market volatility at 2008-09 levels, we are entering a period where long-term investors are presented with a unique opportunity to earn better-than-average returns if they can […]
TD Ameritrade: Keeping a Downturn in Perspective
If you’re in your 20s or 30s, you might have only been in high school or college the last time the market cratered this way (during the 2008-09 financial crisis). You were a child in 2001 when the September 11 attacks rocked the markets. And you might have been a baby or not born yet […]