ETF Analysis & Opinion

As the Real Estate market shifts away from super-low interest rates and skyrocketing home prices throughout the COVID-19 crisis, we are starting to see the Real Estate ETFs weaken in trend and start...

Investors in energy stocks often pay close attention to Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs), a partnership structure typically preferred by oil and gas companies.Research led by Haiwei Chen of the...

Finding compelling slices of global markets to overweight isn’t getting any easier. After an extended run higher in much of the world’s risk assets, the low-hanging fruit has been picked....

Tuesday, we talked about the 6-month calendar range as a support level to hold in both the S&P 500 (SPY) and the NASDAQ 100 (QQQ). Wednesday, both indices were able to hold support from their...

U.S. mortgage rates have risen from levels near 2% to 2.25% earlier in 2021 to levels now above 3%. This increase in the cost of borrowing money for home purchases has a downward effect on home prices...

Currency exchange-traded funds (CETFs) have become popular among investors who want to participate in FX moves. According to the Bank for International Settlements’ Triennial Survey of 2019,...

While the major indices continue to weaken, U.S factories have seen a 1.2% increase in orders in August. This shows that although equities are struggling, the demand for goods is...

September brought increased volatility and lower share prices in broader equity markets. As a result, Wall Street has been keeping a close eye on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), also known as the...

International diversification for bond allocations is, in theory, an attractive concept, but in practice it’s not working out so great in 2021 for US investors, based on a set of ETFs.Five of...

Highly reactive and flammable, lithium is one of the alkali metals in the periodic table. The metal has diverse industrial applications and can be found in heat-resistant glass, aircraft,...

Broader markets have come under pressure in September. So far in the month, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 are down around 2.4%, 2.3% and 2.6%, respectively.As we...

Chinese authorities have been cracking down on public companies—a topic we covered (here, here, and here). There has been increased regulatory oversight in diverse sectors, including e-commerce,...

The SPDR® S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:SPY) was the first exchange-traded fund launched in the US in January 1993. Since then the number of funds and assets under management have grown...

Amid the recent volatility in broader markets, a stock debut on Sept. 22 has been making headlines: restaurant software group Toast (NYSE:TOST). It started trading on the Big Board at an opening price...