As the market closed last Friday (June 19, 2020), the S&P 500 was going up to 41% from the March 23 lows. According to FactSet, the rally in stock process combined with the reduction in earnings forecasts have pushed the S&P’s forward 12 months P/E ratio to 21.9. The widely …
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1-in-3 Odds of “Massive Disaster” Worse Than The Current COVID-19 Crisis
After June 16’s rally on the better-than-expected figures of retail sales as well as the encouraging study of a certain drug to treat COVID-19 patients, the S&P 500 has rallied 40 percent from its closing low and has dropped just 8 percent from the February peak. Obviously, disasters are not …
Read More »Global Dollar Crisis No More With Central Banks Relying Less On Fed Backstop
The global US dollar crisis, a hallmark of the early events of the coronavirus pandemic, seems to have passed, with the latest milestone of a remarkable turnaround in financial situations engineered by the Fed Reserve and other major central banks. Fed data last week showed that its peer banks from …
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