The S&P 500 finished the week up 1.1% and outpaced emerging market equities. Small caps cooled and the NASDAQ led the week. The Bloomberg Barclays Aggregate Bond Index was down 0.2%. The small cap Russell 2000 Index was up 18.4% for the month of November. It was the largest monthly gain since the index was...
Strength in the housing industry continued this week as 999,000 new homes were built in October. This number is better than the expected 972,000. Durable goods orders continued to be resilient in October. The growth of 1.3% was higher than the expected 0.95%. This is the sixth month in a row new orders are up....
The S&P 500 finished the week flat despite more positive news on vaccine developments. Small caps continued to perform well and gained 1.9% on the week. Value outpaced growth by 1.3% on the week and now more than 6% over the last two weeks. The 10-year Treasury yields approached 1% but have backed off to...
