Fighting Back
Back in April of 1942, when the allies were on their back foot and the axis powers were advancing across the world, the stock market bottomed. While it would be another 3 years of sacrifice and hardship, the Doolittle raid of April 1942 was a sign that the U.S. had found its footing and was beginning to fight back. The stock market has a habit of reading through the headlines and understand how future events will impact business. Sure enough, a few months later the Battle of Midway would alter the path of World War II. Today, after weeks of unchecked spread, COVID-19 is now facing a world united in halting its spread, which means the investors can now begin to look through the crises and toward a post-crises economic landscape.
In this week’s edition of the LifePro Asset Management Market & Portfolio Review, our head of Wealth Management, Robert Reaburn, will provide an update on performance, along with a discussion on how investors can use stock market pullbacks to increase your potential long-term growth rate through a combination of time budgeting, discipline, and emotionless opportunism.
Specifically, Robert will walk clients through the various stimulus and economic support programs launched by the Federal Government and the Federal Reserve, how these programs differ from those implemented during the financial crises of 2008, and the expected impact that these programs may have on asset prices such as stocks and bonds going forward. Additionally, we will review the state of credit markets and what the level of implied credit risk is saying about the effectiveness of recent Federal Reserve programs to backstop the financial system during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lastly, we will assess the nature of the recent recovery in stock market prices by measuring momentum, breadth, and investor sentiment. We will also assess whether the current rally off the bottom shares more in common with a bear market bounce or a more durable, long-lasting stock market bottom that gives way to the beginning to new bull market.
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