ETF Analysis & Opinion

Investors typically pay attention to many industry front runners during the earnings season. In early February, one of the names in the limelight was the logistics giant United Parcel Service...

Wall Street is debating whether the Federal Reserve might announce an emergency interest rate hike soon. Recent data released by the Labor Department shows inflation at 7.5%, the highest level in...

In January, US consumer prices charged higher as the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) went up by 0.6%. Inflation now stands at 7.5%, the highest figure in four decades.A...

Many people have marked Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, on their calendars. The annual festivity has evolved to one of the year’s most lucrative shopping seasons in the US. Therefore, Wall Street pays...

In this trading webinar we cover how iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (NYSE:HYG), the ETF that covers high-yield corporate bonds (aka junk bonds), can signal a change in market...

Financial technology (fintech) stocks were some of the hottest on Wall Street during the pandemic. Research by SVB Financial Group highlights that five of the ten most prominent venture capital-backed...

Wall Street was pleased with Alphabet's (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Q4 and FY 2021 results released on Feb. 1. Before the release GOOGL stock was around $2,700. The next day, it surged to $3,030.93. The tech...

Wall Street is seeking insulation from inflation by focusing on real assets such as real estate, commodities, natural resources, precious metals or infrastructure investments. Supply and demand...

February started on a higher note. But after January's rout on Wall Street, volatility looks poised to persist, at least for the next few weeks. As a consequence, many investors are looking to...

In 2021, Wall Street saw over 350 new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) become listed, amounting to a total of 2,570 ETFs stateside by Dec. 31. Globally, there were over 1,330 funds launched last year,...

Red ink flowed like wine for most of the major asset classes in January, with some notable exceptions, based on a set of ETFs.Commodities were the upside outlier last month, offering substantial...

The uncertainty caused by soaring inflation levels, a hawkish Fed, and novel COVID-19 variants has left many investors scratching their heads. As a consequence, broader markets have turned south. The...

Risk-off conditions, including increasing inflation, put broader markets on edge in January. The S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 indices have turned lower and lost 6.9% and 11.5% so far in the...

Green energy may be the future, but it’s still having a rough time in the present while shares of conventional fossil fuel companies extend last year’s strong bull run.The sharp divergence...