Market & Economic Updates
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- First Quarter 2013 Market & Economic Update
1st Quarter 2013 Market & Economic Update
The Standard & Poor’s 500 closed the first quarter of 2013 at a record all-time high and returned in a single quarter the kind of gains Wall Street bulls hope to get in an entire year. - Fourth Quarter 2012 Market & Economic Update
4th Quarter 2012 Market Update
Despite an economic recovery weak by historical standards, the stock market as measured by the S&P 500 total return gained 16% in 2012. - Third Quarter 2012 Market & Economic Update
3rd Quarter 2012 Market & Economic Update
The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index — after falling 4% in the second quarter of 2012 — came roaring back in the third quarter with a 6.4% total return. - Second Quarter 2012 Market & Economic Update
2nd Quarter 2012 Market & Economic Update
Europe dominated financial headlines in the second quarter of 2012 along with fears about the strength of the U.S. economic recovery. - First Quarter 2012 Market & Economic Update
1st Quarter 2012 Market & Economic Update
The first quarter of 2012 brought a welcome surge in global equity markets, giving investors hope that the lingering effects of the recession that ended officially in 2009 might finally be waning. - 2011 Q4 Market & Economic Update
4th Quarter 2011 Market & Economic Update
After the harrowing market declines of the summer, the final months of 2011 demonstrated the resilience of investors’ faith in the global economy. - 2011 Q3 Market & Economic Update
3rd Quarter 2011 Market & Economic Update
The ambivalence that took root in the spring bloomed into outright fear in the third quarter as the combination of the euro zone's decaying fiscal situation and a contentious US budget debate left global investors sickened by risk. - 2011 Q2 Market & Economic Update
2nd Quarter 2011 Market & Economic Update
The robust bull market that has prevailed since early 2009 came to a crossroads during the second quarter of 2011 as investors first grappled with the threat of resurgent inflation and then turned their attention to signs of faltering economic growth in the United States and abroad. - 2011 Q1 Market & Economic Update
1st Quarter 2011 Market & Economic Update
The expansive economic sentiment that dominated U.S. financial markets during the closing weeks of 2010 persisted through much of the first three months of 2011. - 2010 Q4 Market & Economic Update
Fourth Quarter 2010 Market & Economic Update
Having grappled with doubt for much of the year, U.S. investors finally put their fears aside in the fourth quarter to focus on the prospect of a more sustained recovery. - 2010 Q3 Market & Economic Update
Third Quarter 2010 Market & Economic Update
After months of anxiety about slowing growth and renewed credit risks overseas, the third quarter brought a gradual easing of such concerns. - 2010 Q2 Market & Economic Update
Second Quarter 2010 Market & Economic Update
Wall Street’s bulls got stampeded during the second quarter, with bad news overseas and economic frustrations at home conspiring to push global stock markets into a full-fledged correction. - 2010 Q1 Market & Economic Update
First Quarter 2010 Market & Economic Update
A relative dearth of bad news counts as good news during these early post-recession times, and during the first quarter, investors and consumers seemed to regain some long-term faith in financial markets and the economy.
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