by Clearview Wealth Solutions | Dec 15, 2020 | Monthly Updates
With heartfelt appreciation for our relationships with clients and friends, we wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah. Last week saw two IPOs deliver dramatic pops. Food deliverer DoorDash gained 86% on day one and Airbnb surged 113%...
by Clearview Wealth Solutions | Nov 18, 2020 | Monthly Updates
Why has the stock market been so strong since Election Day? In our view, the prospect of a Biden victory and a GOP Senate was not expected which is partially why we are seeing equity prices soar. Add the good news that Pfizer and Moderna both announced very good...
by Clearview Wealth Solutions | Oct 14, 2020 | Monthly Updates
Investors are entering third-quarter earnings season with bright expectations that this could propel the next leg of the stock market’s rally. After all, analysts have been lifting estimates for the quarter – a move that goes against the norm. Typically, earnings...
by Clearview Wealth Solutions | Aug 19, 2020 | Monthly Updates
The Yale School of Management runs a “crash confidence” sentiment reading (we’ve never seen this index before). The index measures how worried investors are about a stock market crash in the next six months. The Yale Crash Confidence reading suggests that individual...
by Clearview Wealth Solutions | Jul 21, 2020 | Monthly Updates
Within the S&P 500, we continue to see a huge performance divergence between the largest and smallest stocks. Through last Friday, the cap-weighted S&P 500 was down under just 1% YTD, but the equal-weighted index was still down more than 10%. (A cap-weighted...
by Clearview Wealth Solutions | Jun 16, 2020 | Monthly Updates
We thought we were finished seeing 1000-point moves in the Dow 30. Just when things were settling down, Fed Chairman Powell threw a hand grenade at investors last week, reminding markets that we are not out of the woods yet. His sentiments were not actually...