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Markets attempt a bounce on encouraging earnings

Nationwide Financial

This is similar to the market behavior near the bottoms in 2002, 2009, 2011, and 2020, reflecting the willingness of institutional investors to dip their toe back in the water. Despite historic levels of investor pessimism, the S&P 500® Index has shown 2% gains in six sessions in the past month in an effort to bounce.

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New Year, New Clean Slate

Investing Caffeine

The bad news is last year turned out to be the 4th worst year in the stock market since World War II (1945) and also marked the worst year since 2008. The good news is that the stock market is up 81% of the time in subsequent years following down years. Typically, during weak stock markets (i.e., 2022: -19.4%.

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No More Bear Markets

The Irrelevant Investor

Remember when bear markets used to last more than a few months? Everything moves faster these days, especially financial markets. This chart might be a bit of an eyesore, but it shows the history of how long it took for stocks to get back to even following a bear market. It was the fastest bear market ever.

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5 Best Investment Hedges Against Inflation

Good Financial Cents

Based on its outstanding performance during the inflation of the 1970s and the economic and financial turmoil during the 2008 Financial Meltdown, gold looks to be a hands-down winner against inflation. Cons: Performs poorly during times of economic and price stability. But it really depends on the level of inflation.

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Forecasting Follies

The Better Letter

trillion into the economy in addition to the $4.1 The contracts were based upon Summers’ macro-economic forecast, which turned out to be wildly wrong. Instead, after the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, we entered a period of ultra-low interest rates from which we are only now emerging. Inflation was already hot.

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Global Leaders Investment Letter: August 2022

Brown Advisory

The expected competitive forces don’t materialise, and we believe that superior economics can be maintained for a lot longer than our standard microeconomics mean-reversion frameworks would suggest. In the financial markets we see evidence of cycles in capital flows as market prices rise. specialty insurer Hiscox.

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Transcript: Savita Subramanian

The Big Picture

I graduated Columbia 2002, and I’m the only person I know who stayed in the same job for the last 23 00:08:35 [Speaker Changed] Years. I think it’s not just new economy chip purveyors, but it’s also the companies that buy the chips and become better. But it’s, it’s sort of strange.

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