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Quarterly Investment Update - 3rd Quarter 2021

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Stock Market Commentary - Despite late-quarter volatility, U.S. stocks eked out a gain with the S&P 500 returning 0.6% for the third quarter. The index, which consists of the 500 largest U.S. companies, is up 15.9%...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.16.2020 | Top Story: EU and UK Regulators Announce Sweeping New Laws Aimed at Big Tech Gatekeepers

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EU and British authorities unveiled new proposals this week to “crimp the power of ‘gatekeeper’ platforms like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft, which policymakers argue deserve more oversight given their outsize...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.19.2019 | Top Story: T-Mobile Chief John Legere to Leave Company in April

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T-Mobile chief and fan-of-magenta John Legere has announced that he’ll be stepping down in April at the end of his current contract. Legere will be succeeded by Mike Sievert, the carrier’s current president and COO....more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.16.2019 | Top Story: Aramco Seeks Valuation of $1.7B, Well below Original Goal

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Saudi Aramco’s slow trickle of IPO-related information continued this weekend, including its goal of setting overall company market value at a staggering $1.7 trillion. The figure, though massive, is still well short of the...more

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Quarterly Investment Update - 3rd Quarter 2019

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Stock Market Commentary - Trade and interest rates continued to be the headline market movers for the third quarter. In late July, as expected, the Fed cut rates a quarter percent and recommitted to "act as appropriate"...more

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Quarterly Investment Update - 3rd Quarter 2018

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Economic Commentary - The U.S. economy continues to show signs of improvement. Unemployment fell to 3.7 percent, and second quarter GDP grew to an annualized rate of 4.2 percent, which is the highest rate of growth since...more

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Quarterly Investment Update - 3rd Quarter 2017

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Stock Market Commentary - The third quarter of 2017 brought the devastation of multiple hurricanes, escalating tensions with North Korea, the Equifax breach and more White House drama. Yet, investors focused on positive...more

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Quarterly Investment Update - 2nd Quarter 2017

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Stock Market Commentary - Global markets continued to rally throughout the second quarter of 2017. International stocks in both developed and developing markets saw healthy gains of 6.3%, as measured by both the MSCI EAFE...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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A collection of corporate heavy hitters are betting big on the blockchain technology behind bitcoin rival Ethereum to build a computing system to track data and financial contracts. The project is seen by some as a way to...more

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Quarterly Investment Update - 4th Quarter 2016

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ECONOMIC REVIEW AND OUTLOOK - In this past year we were reminded again to expect the unexpected: The well-established political classes in the U.K., the U.S. and Italy learned that democracy was their Achilles’ heel, and...more

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Quarterly Investment Update - 2nd Quarter 2016

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Stock Market Commentary - The markets endured much drama in the two weeks leading up to quarter - end as the surprise exit of the U.K. from the European Union rattled investors. Brexit knocked over 5% off of the S&P...more

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Quarterly Investment Update - 1st Quarter 2016

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Global markets endured a rocky ride in the first quarter as commodity prices continued downward. After plunging over 11% by mid- quarter, equities slowly and steadily drifted back above water by quarter-end, rising 1. 3%,...more

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China-Hong Kong Connect – Part Five: An Interconnected World

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In November 2014, the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect (the “Shanghai Train”), a pilot program for establishing mutual stock market access between mainland China? and Hong Kong, was officially launched. The new cross-border...more

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Quarterly Investment Update – 3rd Quarter 2015

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Stock Market Commentary - China’s move to devalue its currency in late August set off a wave of selling and renewed volatility across global markets that continued through September. Enduring its worst quarter since...more

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