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Market Thoughts for June 2022
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth’s CIO, recaps the market and economic news for May. Markets started to stabilize during the month. The Dow and S&P 500 ended with small ...
Market Thoughts for May 2022
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth’s CIO, recaps the market and economic news for April. U.S. markets were down between 5 percent for the Dow and 14 percent for the ...
Market Thoughts for April 2022
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth’s CIO, recaps the market and economic news for March. We saw a bounce in stock markets for the month, but everything was down between ...
The Top 10 Countries by Energy Transition Investment
More than 130 countries have set or are considering a goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. Achieving net-zero on a global scale, however, requires $125 trillion in climate investment ...
Visualizing Ukraine’s Top Trading Partners and Products
International trade was equal to 65% of Ukraine’s GDP in 2020, totaling to $102.9 billion of goods exchanged with countries around the world. In 2014, Russia’s annexation ...
March Market Thoughts
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth’s CIO, recaps the market and economic news for February. Markets were down across the board, with U.S. indices dropping between 3 and 4 percent, ...
“The Stock Market is Not Crashing” By Brad McMillan
Yesterday, I got two emails requesting a response to the current market pullback. I received another couple of emails referring to a prediction (by a very well-known ...
10 Tourist Destinations for Post-Pandemic Life
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization formally classified the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic. The resulting travel bans decimated the tourism industry, and international air travel initially ...
The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns (2022 Edition)
For investors, 2021 was a year in which nearly every asset class finished in the green, with commodities providing some of the best returns. The S&P Goldman ...
Market Thoughts for January 2022
Brad McMillan, Commonwealth’s CIO, recaps the market and economic news for December. The year closed on a strong note, with the Dow and S&P showing gains. The ...
