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March 20 2020 Market Update
Coming Together: Local and Government Policy
Jeff Fishman here. As California heads into its first weekend of sheltering-in-place as a state, I’ve been thinking a lot about the lessons I learned from the life of my grandfather. He always told me that if you live long enough, you will see virtually everything.
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March 16 2020 Market Update
Touching Base: Markets and Covid-19
Markets opened sharply down this morning, triggering a trading halt.[2] Market participants rushed to sell assets as the potential economic ramifications of measures intended to slow the COVID-19 pandemic began to take shape.
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March 3 2020 Market Update
Coronavirus: Impact and Implications
Markets fell sharply in the last week of February as Coronavirus (officially, COVID-19) concerns spread, marking the worst single week for the S&P 500 since 2008.[1] On March 3, 2020, the Federal Reserve cut intrest rates by one-half point as an emergency measure, marking the first inter-meeting rate cut since 2008.[2]
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