{"id":820,"date":"2021-08-04T18:02:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T18:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/figure8investing.com\/?p=820"},"modified":"2021-08-04T18:02:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T18:02:21","slug":"figure-8s-2q21-quarterly-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"Figure 8&#8217;s 2Q&#8217;21 Quarterly Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Sunshiny Days <\/strong><br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Markets continued to deliver strong gains for investors in the 2nd Quarter of 2021. The global MSCI All Country World Index was up 7.5% for the quarter and 13.3% year to date through June 30, 2021.  The US-based S&amp;P 500 was up even more, 8.6% for the quarter and 15.3% year-to-date.  Investors and consumers alike are showing a lot of confidence as economies in the US and elsewhere recover at a very strong clip (global GDP growth is 5%+). Covid vaccinations are proceeding, workers are headed back to the office, and increasingly assured consumers are headed back to stores and onto airplanes. Read More here&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/figure8investing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Figure-8s-2Q21-Quarterly-Comments.pdf\">Figure 8&#8217;s 2Q&#8217;21 Quarterly Comments <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunshiny Days Markets continued to deliver strong gains for investors in the 2nd Quarter of 2021. The global MSCI All Country World Index was up 7.5% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}