In an effort to stabilize financial markets and mitigate the economic fallout from the coronavirus lockdowns, the Federal Reserve has drawn on various monetary stimulus tools. The target range for the Federal Funds rate was …
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was passed by congress and signed into law on March 27th. The fiscal stimulus package worth nearly $2.2 trillion was intended to provide quick and direct …
We entered 2020 with a cautiously positive outlook, although we still felt it would likely be a turbulent year. When we made that statement in our 2020 market outlook, we may not have anticipated the …
LAMCO Advisory Services, Inc. has released its 2020 Q1 Market Outlook Commentary.
Amid the fear and frenzy surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, we have witnessed the best in our society stepping to the forefront to fight the virus that has brought the world to a standstill. Fred Rogers …
Last week saw withdrawals of nearly $56 billion from taxable bond funds, the next highest weekly outflow was just over $15 billion in 2015. Most of these outflows came from corporate bond funds, as investors …
In most other market environment the price war going on in the global oil market would be headline economic news. Amid the coronavirus crisis, however, it has become a bit of a second page story.
Walking through the supermarket yesterday, I noticed a familiar sight – empty shelves. As Floridians we accept that every fall our lives will be disrupted by a hurricane or two. Sometimes we get lucky and …
Within three months of writing our annual market outlook, our sentiment on economic growth has shifted down. Within this time the global economy has suffered from both a deadly new virus spreading throughout the world …
Investors are apprehensive as markets have retreated over 29% in a matter of weeks. The prospect of a massive blow to the global economy from COVID-19 has led to a period of high volatility and …