2020 Equity Market Capitalization Risk Premium 
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 21, 2023
In 2022, we needed that reminder more than ever before, especially after markets came roaring back from the COVID drop in 2020 and 2021. We invest in equities expecting to earn more than we can make on risk free or guaranteed investments, but the risk in equities is that actual returns can deviate from expectations.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 19, 2022
If equity markets surprised us with their resilience in 2020, not just weathering a pandemic for the ages, but prospering in its midst, US equity markets, in particular, managed to find light even in the darkest news stories, and continued their rise through 2021. The year that was.
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Musings on Markets
JULY 17, 2023
While this may seem perverse, the first step in understanding and assessing where we are in markets now is to go back and examine where things stood then. trillion in market value in the first six months in the year , but the severity of last year's decline has still left them $14.4 US Equities in 2023: Into the Weeds!
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 9, 2021
The second was that, starting mid-year in 2020, equity markets and the real economy moved in different directions, with the former rising on the expectations a post-virus future, and the latter languishing, as most of the world continued to operate with significant constraints.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 5, 2024
Since I am lucky enough to have access to databases that carry data on all publicly traded stocks, I choose all publicly traded companies, with a market price that exceeds zero, as my universe, for computing all statistics. Beta & Risk 1. Return on Equity 1. Equity Risk Premiums 2. Return on Equity 2.
Musings on Markets
MARCH 25, 2021
The first quarter of 2021 has been, for the most part, a good time for equity markets, but there have been surprises. Coming in 2020, the ten-year T.Bond rate at 1.92% was already close to historic lows. In January, the NASDAQ continued its 2020 success, and the S&P 500 lagged, losing value.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 8, 2022
To start the year, I returned to a ritual that I have practiced for thirty years, and that is to take a look at not just market changes over the last year, but also to get measures of the financial standing and practices of companies around the world. It is also why I report only aggregated data on industries, rather than company-level data.
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