March 2020: COVID-19 and Global Market Views

By Dan Hughes - Chris D. Wallis, CFA®, CPA®



  • The COVID-19 story is unfolding in a market that showed some evidence of weakness in January and Febraury 2020
  • In the months ahead, some sectors are likely to be impacted by supply chain issues and waivering consumer demand
  • Volatility risk will likely remain elevated. The shape of the COVID-19 market recovery remains unknown, as does the effect of monetary policy on market conditions going forward
Equity securities are volatile and can decline significantly in response to broad market and economic conditions. Smaller company investments can be more volatile than those of larger companies. Value investing carries the risk that a security can continue to be undervalued by the market for long periods of time. Short selling is speculative in nature and involves the risk of a theoretically unlimited increase in the market price of the security that can, in turn, result in an inability to cover the short position and a theoretically unlimited loss.

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