Remove Book Value Remove Equity Remove Market Capitalization Remove Treasury
article thumbnail

Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

Musings on Markets

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.

article thumbnail

Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023!

Musings on Markets

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. In my third post at the start of 2023, I looked at US treasuries, the long-touted haven of safety for investors. trillion below their values from the start of 2022.