Weekly Market Digest: Stock Market Rally Takes a Breather
The global stock market rally finally took a breather. After a positive start to the week, equities slowly rolled over before culminating in a precipitous single day freefall on Thursday. This was at...
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Global stocks waffled throughout the week as investors continued to assess the pandemic and its impact on the economic recovery. Cases are surging in many states across the U.S., with rising numbers in...
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Stocks increased most of the week as optimism grew over a second stimulus package being negotiated within Congress and the White House. That optimism faded slightly as escalating tensions between the...
View ArticleWeekly Market Digest: Stocks Fall As Big Tech Slides
A lot happened over the last week with wildfires continuing to rage on the west coast, perhaps the strangest smoke-filled apocalyptic skies ever seen over the Bay Area, the NFL officially kicking off...
View ArticleInvestors Skittish as Market Reaches New Highs & Abnormal Valuations
After a strong start to the week, U.S. stocks fell sharply Thursday on the back of disappointing results from Walmart and Cisco. Terror attacks in Spain and ongoing turmoil in the White House likely...
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It was a somewhat bumpy week for U.S. stocks with corporate earnings driving most of the swings. Tuesday’s positive results from Caterpillar and 3M led equities higher, but a string of negative...
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Stocks struggled to find their footing, ending the week in slightly negative territory. Much of the news surrounded tax legislation, with the U.S. House of Representatives successfully passing its...
View ArticleFinal Version of Tax Bill Expected Soon
Stocks rallied early in the week on continued anticipation of corporate tax cuts in the United States. They reversed course Thursday when it appeared Senator Marco Rubio might oppose the bill without...
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Global stocks continued their upward march, ending the week at healthy gains. They paused only briefly Wednesday, which so far has been the only down day in 2018. Much like last year, foreign stocks...
View ArticleThis Week’s Selloff Could Indicate Volatility
It was a bruising week for stocks. After more than a 7% increase to start the year, global equities gave back half of those gains over the last five days. Investors grew skittish after a string of...
View ArticleAre Bond Fears Warranted in Light of Interest Rates Expectations?
After a sharp rebound the week before, stocks struggled early on to keep momentum. Wednesday’s release of the Fed minutes drove an end-of-day selloff and small uptick in bond yields, as fears...
View ArticleWhat Goes Up the Most Tends to Come Down the Most
It was a wild week for stocks — a seemingly fitting end to what has been a wild quarter overall. U.S. equities jumped Monday when it appeared fears of a trade war with China may have been overblown....
View ArticleWeekly Market Digest: Volatility Returns & There is No Predicting Performance
It was another wild week for markets. A strong relief rally on Tuesday helped push global stocks into positive territory, only to be partially offset by steep declines Thursday. Losses continue to be...
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Learn More About Personal Capital’s Approach Today is Earth Day, and with increasing attention around this holiday, there’s definitely a sense that change is in the air. Whether it’s the increasing...
View ArticleWeekly Market Digest: All Eyes on Stimulus
All eyes on stimulus. For the second week in a row, optimism over another fiscal stimulus package was the primary narrative driving equities higher. The only day markets fell was Tuesday, immediately...
View ArticleHow Will the Presidential Election Impact the Stock Market?
The 2020 U.S. Presidential election is now less than 30 days away, and with COVID still surging across the country, mail-in ballots are already being collected and tallied. But the countdown has...
View ArticleWeekly Market Digest: Vaccine Update Boosts ‘Physical Economy’ Stocks
Monday’s vaccine update from Pfizer sent shares of “physical economy” stocks rallying on hopes of a faster-than-expected economic rebound. Even energy firms posted sizable double-digit gains, as such a...
View ArticleWeekly Market Digest: More Economic Pain Lies Ahead
Global stocks took a breather this week as gridlocked fiscal stimulus discussions outweighed relatively positive developments on the vaccine front. Congress successfully passed a stopgap spending bill,...
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