Weekly Digest 4/10/20
Happy Friday, April 10th!
Hope you all had a great Week 1. This quarter, we are launching a Weekly Digest to provide you with an SWS-curated round-up of interesting articles, resources, information, and opportunities related to real world finance that may be useful to you! This week’s edition specifically focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on markets and the world economy.
Check out the Economy & Business section of CoviDB.org, the community-built, expert-curated, platform organizing resources across a comprehensive set of topics relating to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic for public use! [Your fellow co-CIO Lauren McLaughlin helped work on the team that put this project together over spring break :)]
This Harvard Business Review article on Understanding the Economic Shock of the Coronavirus uses “shock geometry” and comparisons to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis to investigate how the economic path of the COVID-19 shock fits into our understanding of “shock geometry,” so far.
This McKinsey & Co. briefing on COVID-19 Implications for Business goes through the epidemiological “swing factors” for the Coronavirus, as well as different scenarios regarding the impact that the pandemic (and corresponding public health and economic policies) could have on the U.S. GDP.
J.P. Morgan’s report, Assessing the Fallout from the Coronavirus Pandemic, examines what lies ahead for the markets as we head into a global recession, the series of policy responses around the globe and which sectors will be hit the hardest.
As countries are rapidly adjusting monetary policy to respond to the financial shocks caused by COVID-19, this resource provides an overview of the current interest rates around the world.
CNN has a really helpful Coronavirus-related live markets dashboard so that you can track the stocks, sectors and indicators most impacted by COVID-19, in real-time!
As always please feel free to reach out if you have any questions, comments, or concerns. Enjoy the weekend!
Cheers,
The SWS Exec Team