A growing number of prominent Wall Street institutions are making the prediction that 2020 will be the year for Europe’s stock market to overshadow its American counterpart as the coronavirus takes divergent paths across the two economic powers. Despite the United States struggling to curb the deadly COVID-19 disease, the …
Read More »Increase nearly 400 points after strong job report despite record rise in new daily coronavirus cases
US stocks rose on Thursday as investors digested a stronger-than-expected monthly employment report amid a growing number of new cases of coronavirus. The US financial markets will be closed on Friday and the bond market will close an hour earlier at 2 pm ET on Thursday, and the Independence Day …
Read More »The return of the March panic is the biggest risk to the S&P 500 right now. Here is the trigger
Hope for the COVID-19 vaccine and optimism ahead of employment data are boosting stocks as a long holiday weekend of July 4 awaits US investors. But as cities and businesses roll back reopens, some suggest caution with June payrolls (weekly jobless figures are coming, too). Christopher Dembik, head of macroeconomic …
Read More »Why stock market strategists have never been more confused in June about year-end prospects for stocks
It has been the best and worst time for US equities benchmarks in the past two quarters, and that is perhaps the reason why Wall Street analysts face their most perplexing challenge yet. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, + 0.84% and the S&P 500 SPX, + 1.54% According to …
Read More »Goldman Sachs did the math, and a national mask mandate to curb the spread of the coronavirus would save a lot on US economic growth.
Wearing a mask has become a unique problem in the US, which is in the midst of a coronavirus crisis that seems to be out of control every day. Check out:Watch out for these 3 new coronavirus symptoms However, a recent Goldman Sachs report projects that the lack of a …
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