Student of the Market
Presentation Overview:
- Stock market returns
- 2020: A wild ride
- Stock fund risk
- Stocks after the rebound
- Flow divergence
- S&P Envy
- Inflation and Investments
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BlackRock 2021 Global Outlook
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated profound shifts in how economies and societies operate.
Kind of, pretty much, just about divided government
The S&P 500 Index is up an extraordinary 16% since election day – November 3, 2020.
Global Weekly Commentary: The new nominal, accelerated
The Democrats’ newly gained majority in U.S. Congress paves the way for greater public spending but the narrow margin limits the scope for higher taxes, in our view. We expect this outcome to speed up “the new nominal”, or our expectations for stronger growth coupled with stable nominal yields, even as a more infectious virus strain threatens to make the path to a full activity restart more bumpy.