Back to the Future
By Lori Calvasina
Published August 16, 2021 | 7 min listen
In this week’s episode, we take a closer look at the recent impact of the COVID backdrop on the US equity market. The three big things you need to know: (1) First, COVID has taken up more airtime on earnings calls in August, and the tone on the variant has been fairly mixed. (2) Second, we’re seeing more pronounced signs of stress in the high-frequency indicators that we track. (3) Third, for the most part, the US equity market has remained forward-looking, focusing not on the impacts of the latest surge but rather on the continuation of the recovery thereafter.
Lori Calvasina
Managing Director & Head of U.S. Equity Strategy, RBC Capital Markets
Lori Calvasina joined RBC Capital Markets as Head of U.S. Equity Strategy in 2017 as a Managing Director. Having spent nearly two decades as an equity strategist at major investment banks, Lori is an expert on the US stock market, and regularly represents RBC in the financial media on Bloomberg and CNBC. Prior to joining RBC, Lori was a senior equity strategist at Credit Suisse from 2010 to 2017, covering Small/Mid Cap Strategy from 2010-2014 and both Small/Mid Cap and US Equity Strategy from 2015-2017. She spent the first ten years of her career at Citi in a variety of roles including lead Small/Mid Cap Strategist from 2007-2010. In both 2008 and 2009 Lori was ranked #2 in the Small Companies category in the Institutional Investor All America Research team poll. Lori is a graduate of the University of Virginia and its selective Government & Foreign Affairs’ Honors Program. In 2019, she was named to Crains New York’s list of Notable Women in Finance.
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