by Kelly Fortado | Sep 8, 2020 | Compardo, Wienstroer, Conrad & Janes, Investments, Investments, News Room
Luke Ferraro | Director of Investment Research To date, 2020 has been a unique year for the financial markets. A global pandemic and domestic social unrest collided with unprecedented fiscal and monetary policy support, resulting in bond yields at/near record-low...
by Kelly Fortado | Jul 31, 2020 | Investments
We are only halfway through 2020 and already it has been one of the most unique investing years in memory. If the biggest surprise of Q1 was the speed and depth of the decline of economic activity in the ‘forced’ recession, the biggest surprise of Q2 was the...
by Daniel Kukla | Jun 29, 2020 | Investments
By Bill Hornbarger, Chief Investment Officer at Moneta (@MonetaCIO) On June 8, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research stated that the economic expansion that started in June of 2009 peaked in February of 2020. The U.S. economy...
by Daniel Kukla | Jun 11, 2020 | Investments
At the Start, Markets Rallied The equity market had been on a strong upward trajectory since bottoming in late March. From March 23 through June 8, the S&P 500 had gained 995 points and the NASDAQ closed at a record high level on June 10. Equity markets and other...
by Daniel Kukla | May 27, 2020 | Coronavirus, Investments
By Bill Hornbarger, Chief Investment Officer at Moneta (@MonetaCIO) After a difficult March, equity markets stabilized and generally rallied during April, with most equity market segments posting double digit returns for the month. April provided welcome relief for...
by Daniel Kukla | Apr 24, 2020 | Compardo, Wienstroer, Conrad & Janes, Coronavirus, Investments
By Bill Hornbarger, Chief Investment Officer at Moneta (@MonetaCIO) The financial markets have taken investors on a tumultuous journey in the first quarter of 2020, with equities seeing record highs before plunging into bear territory in the shortest time frame on...