Insights
Cumberland Advisors Market Commentary offers insights and analysis on upcoming, important economic issues that potentially impact global financial markets. Our team shares their thinking on global economic developments, market news and other factors that often influence investment opportunities and strategies. Our readers appreciate its timeliness, depth of analysis, and quality of research.

Author(s): David R. Kotok | Mon October 12, 2020
Author(s): Cumberland Advisors | Fri October 9, 2020
The Cumberland Advisors Week in Review is a recap of news, commentary, and opinion from our team.
Author(s): Patricia Healy, CFA | Fri October 9, 2020
On Sunday, Bloomberg reported that this year’s California fires had scorched more ground than the last three years of fires combined. Higher temperatures and greater winds have contributed to the spread.
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Thu October 8, 2020
Market-moving events and data points are coming fast, and in a chaotic sequence. Here are some bullets we are watching.
Author(s): John R. Mousseau, CFA | Wed October 7, 2020
With the presidential election a month away, we start to mull over what the bond market might look like post-election day.
Author(s): William Witherell, Ph.D. | Tue October 6, 2020
The global economy is expected to have registered a stronger than anticipated rebound in the third quarter with record-breaking growth rates after output collapsed in the first half of the because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Mon October 5, 2020
We have a medley of remarkable performances for you this Sunday – a little diversion from the daily political and pandemic fare.
Let’s kick things off with a rousing flash-mob rendition of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Ode to Joy, performed years before COVID-19 entered our lives. It lifts…
Author(s): Cumberland Advisors | Sun October 4, 2020
The Cumberland Advisors Week in Review is a recap of news, commentary, and opinion from our team.
Author(s): Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D. | Sat October 3, 2020
Our commentary “FOMC: Hope Now Seems to Be a Strategy” (https://www.cumber.com/cumberland-advisors-market-commentary-fomc-hope-now-seems-to-be-a-strategy/) focused on the FOMC’s latest decision to keep its target for the federal funds rate between 0–.25%, to change its strategy for policy going…
Author(s): Daniel Himelberger | Fri October 2, 2020
Markets experienced volatility in the third quarter of 2020 as COVID-19 and the looming election continued to drive uncertainty regarding an economic rebound. The net result of the volatility left the Treasury market little changed on the quarter, while spreads on investment-grade corporates and…