ETF Analysis & Opinion

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) posted the strongest gain for the major asset classes last week, based on a set of exchange-traded products.Vanguard Real Estate (NYSE:VNQ) jumped 2.5% over the...

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) Bristol-Myers Squibb, $BMY, pulled back from a high in October to support and consolidated for over 3 months. After a quick touch at the 200 day SMA, it then...

S&P500 Mini Non-Commercial Speculator Positions: Large stock market speculators lowered their bullish net positions in the S&P500 Mini futures markets this week, according to the latest...

What’s the best way to add the consistent income growth of the Dividend Aristocrats to your portfolio without paying the “royalty premium” of these popular, well-covered stocks?Buy...

The S&P 500 turned in another sideways performance this week, opening at 2726 and closing at 2721, down five points for the week. I have drawn a downward trending line on my SPX chart, starting...

Stuck In The Middle “Trying to make some sense of it all,But I can see that it makes no sense at all,Is it cool to go to sleep on the floor,‘Cause I don’t think that I can take any...

Here is a brief review of period-over-period change in short interest in the May 1-15 period in nine S&P 500 sectors.Materials: (NYSE:XLB)Two weeks ago, XLB (59.33) broke out from a late-January...

Looking for high yield investments, packed in a convenient fund wrapper? You’d better look beyond these three popular names.I’m going to show you how to “cherry pick” their...

GreenSky LLC. (NASDAQ:GSKY), a technology platform facilitating consumer loans at the point of purchase, will IPO on Thursday, May 24. At a price range of $21 to $23 per share, the company plans to...

A Truism that is Demonstrably TrueMost people are probably aware of the adage “sell in May and go away”. This popular seasonal Wall Street truism implies that the market’s...

Mortgage interest payments as well as non-mortgage interest payments are costing consumers more and more of their disposable income. Consider the non-mortgage variety. Personal-interest payments have...

SPX Monitoring purposes; Long SPX on 5/21/18 at 2733.01. Monitoring purposes Gold: neutral Long Term Trend SPX monitor purposes: Long SPX 3/14/18 at 2749.48. Here is an interesting statistics; short...

The US stock market has suffered a rough ride so far in 2018, but technology shares remain the strongest trend performer for the major US equity sectors, based on a set of exchange-traded funds...

For the better part of four months, investors have been inundated with negative predictions of how a trade war between the world’s two largest economies and biggest trading partners would affect...