Weekly Market Recap – April 3, 2020
Weekly Market Recap – March 3, 2020 In the Markets Last week ended the first quarter of 2020; hence, our weekly recap highlights many of the Q1 statistics. The Dow Jones Industrial Average of 30...
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Weekly Market Recap – April 9, 2020 In the Markets COVID-19’s spread has led to 16.8 million job losses in the past three weeks. Thursday’s statistic of 6.6 million new unemployment claims was already...
View ArticleWeekly Market Recap – April 17, 2020
Weekly Market Recap – April 17, 2020 In the Markets Pandemic news has been the primary fundamental factor in global capital markets since February. As the data has begun showing COVID-19’s curves...
View ArticleWeekly Market Recap – April 24, 2020
Weekly Market Recap – April 24, 2020 In the Markets This week, the trading markets absorbed Thursday’s labor department report of 4.4 million jobless claims, a number lower than the three previous...
View ArticleWeekly Market Recap – May 1, 2020
Weekly Market Recap – May 1, 2020 In the Markets Early last week, some businesses across the nation began the process of opening their doors again, adding to investor confidence which was also...
View ArticleWeekly Market Recap – May 8, 2020
Weekly Market Recap – May 8, 2020 In the Markets This week’s statistics gave investors another snapshot of stresses in the economy and society, as a whole. The Department of Commerce reported that the...
View ArticleWeekly Market Recap – May 15, 2020
Weekly Market Recap – May 15, 2020 In the Markets Stock market investors pushed the indices lower this past week, due to a combination of pandemic news, a rekindled US-China trade war campaign and more...
View ArticleWeekly Market Recap – May 22, 2020
Weekly Market Recap – May 22, 2020 In the Markets With 2.4 million new unemployment claims this week, bringing the total to 38.6 million since mid-March, this gauge of joblessness would look like a...
View ArticleWeekly Market Recap – May 29, 2020
Weekly Market Recap – May 29, 2020 In the Markets Restrictions have been easing in major US cities, and businesses are coming back, though worldwide coronavirus cases hit 6 million. On Thursday, the...
View ArticleWeekly Market Recap – June 5, 2020
Weekly Market Recap – June 5, 2020 In the Markets On Thursday, the European Central Bank boosted its Pandemic Emergency Purchase Program by €600 billion ($676 billion). This additional bond-buying...
View ArticleWeekly Market Recap – June 12, 2020
Weekly Market Recap – June 12, 2020 In the Markets The week for stock markets started off with a bang as the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday sessions took the NASDAQ Composite to three consecutive all...
View ArticleWeekly Market Recap – June 19, 2020
Weekly Market Recap – June 19, 2020 In the Markets Recent data releases are giving investors signs that the reopening is stimulating the economy. Retail sales jumped 17.7% in May; the previous monthly...
View ArticleWeekly Market Recap – June 26, 2020
Weekly Market Recap – June 26, 2020 In the Markets After weeks of news stories dominated by better economic numbers and coverage of re-openings, along with the focus on developments surrounding the...
View ArticleWeekly Market Recap – July 2, 2020
Weekly Market Recap – July 2, 2020 In the Markets After US employers added a record 4.8 million jobs in June, the national unemployment rate dropped to 11.1%. However, many states are reporting record...
View ArticleWeekly Market Recap – July 10, 2020
Weekly Market Recap – July 10, 2020 In the Markets Thursday’s labor department figures stated that 1.4 million Americans applied for unemployment insurance for the first time last week and more than 19...
View ArticleWeekly Market Recap – July 17, 2020
Weekly Market Recap – July 17, 2020 In the Markets This past week, the Department of Commerce report showed that retail sales rose 7.5% in June; this was largely attributed to online consumer...
View ArticleWeekly Market Recap – July 24, 2020
Weekly Market Recap – July 24, 2020 In the Markets The week started with the European Union agreeing to a €1.6 trillion pandemic recovery strategy based on the sale of hundreds of billions of common...
View ArticleWeekly Market Recap – July 31, 2020
Weekly Market Recap – July 31, 2020 In the Markets According to a Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) release on Thursday, the US economy contracted at a record rate of 32.9% in the second quarter of...
View ArticleWeekly Market Recap – August 7, 2020
Weekly Market Recap – August 7, 2020 In the Markets US employers added 1.8 million jobs in July. The unemployment rate decreased to 10.2%. The new jobless benefit filings for the prior week fell to 1.2...
View ArticleWeekly Market Recap – August 14, 2020
Weekly Market Recap – August 14, 2020 In the Markets The US unemployment claims figure came in at less than one million (963,000) for the first time in 21 weeks. Core retail sales rose 1.9%, which was...
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