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Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, July 10, 2020, before the market’s close. Even as new COVID-19 cases hit single-day highs, technology stocks remained on the rise this week, pushing the NASDAQ Composite to a record close Thursday and continuing to carry the broader market on their backs. …
Please note: This update was prepared on Thursday, July 2, 2020, before the market’s close. A better-than-expected report that the country is getting back to work sent stocks sailing on the last trading day before the long holiday weekend—a positive outcome that contrasts with news of rising COVID-19 infection rates. …
Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, June 26, 2020, before the market’s close. Stock markets continue to yo-yo even as daily coronavirus infections rose in states that were among the earliest to reopen, sparking worries that a new round of social-distancing restrictions could hobble a budding economic recovery. …
Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, June 19, 2020, before the market’s close. After last week’s worries caused a stock market wobble—and despite this week’s news of rising coronavirus infections both at home and abroad—stocks got back on an upward path. Through Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average …
Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, June 12, 2020, before the market’s close. After weeks of trending higher on hope, stock markets sold off as fears of reopening risks resurfaced. Until yesterday’s plunge, stocks had staged a remarkable rebound from the March 23 lows—the S&P 500 had gained …
Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, June 5, 2020, before the market’s close. Our expertise at Adviser Investments is in finance, not politics. But as human beings and as Americans, we stand with those who protest racial discrimination and disenfranchisement in its myriad forms. The disconnect between mostly …
Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, May 29, 2020, before the market’s close. Vaccine hopes and states reopening helped buoy Wall Street in the first half of this holiday-shortened week. But geopolitics got in the way as the week ended. Stocks dropped on concerns that China’s move to …
Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, May 22, 2020, before the market’s close. News of a potential vaccine for COVID-19 started the trading week off with a bang—the Dow rose nearly 1,000 points (3.9%) on Monday. A day later, scientists’ skepticism over the trial results put a damper …
Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, May 15, 2020, before the market’s close. Global markets and their underlying economies remain propelled by and prone to virus-related news. Reports of the economic toll taken by measures imposed to manage the virus vie with hopes that gradual reopenings in many …
Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, May 8, 2020, before the market’s close. Investors seem to have concluded that today’s devastating economic news portends better times ahead—and they may be right. It’s hard to imagine that unemployment, for instance, could worsen from the 14.7% rate reported this morning …
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Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, May 1, 2020, before the market’s close. The logic doesn’t seem to square: More than 30 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits over the last six weeks, while the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average ended April with their best monthly …
Please note: This update was prepared on Friday, April 24, 2020, before the market’s close. Even as relevant batches of late March and April economic data are beginning to reveal the devastation the pandemic has unleashed, hopes of infection and death rates flattening have propelled stock markets higher. The conjunction …
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