ETF Analysis & Opinion

After showing weakness last week and creating some bearish-looking technical formations, stocks took a turn for the better on Monday. Perhaps it was renowned value investor Warren Buffett breaking...

For weeks, the VanEck Vectors Gold Miners (NYSE:GDX) has been on the edge of a break out, while showing signs of the corrective pullback we would rather see first.But, as I have said many, many times,...

SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY)“Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.” - George Soros We saw choppy...

Over the past year, a few sectors [Transports, Biotech (via iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology (NASDAQ:IBB)), Banks and the Russell 2000] have been weaker than the broad markets. For the broad market to...

Focus the last few months has been on oil. It looks to have finally reached a bottom and reversed. Moving higher with fits and starts it is now approaching $50 per barrel. Remember when it was going...

Technical Outlook:Strong rally yesterday changed the look and feel of the sell-off that we have seen over the last three weeks. One day rally essentially wiped out the previous two weeks of...

The Information Technology sector ranks fourth out of the ten sectors as detailed in our 2Q16 Sector Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. Last quarter, the Information Technology sector ranked...

Technical Outlook:On Friday, SPX dropped nearly 1%. But more importantly it managed to close below the 50-day moving average, despite bouncing off of it the previous two times. More important however...

SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY)"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." --Margaret Thatcher Poor action in stocks as earnings numbers continue to be weak. Looks now as if the next move...

This is probably one of the more interesting times in recent memory for the stock market. Investors are so panicked about the possibility of a recession, bear market, or even just a simple correction...

In early 1998, Russia was hemorrhaging foreign exchange reserves.A number of factors were feeding into worries about Russia’s debt sustainability – including the Asian financial crisis in...

T2108 Status: 52.1%T2107 Status: 55.3%VIX Status: 15.0General (Short-term) Trading Call: bearishActive T2108 periods: Day #64 over 20%, Day #63 over 30%, Day #60 over 40%, Day #57 over 50%...

Here are the Rest of the Top 10:Capital One Financial (NYSE:COF) Capital One Financial, COF, fell from a high near 82.50 in November last year finding a bottom in late January almost 30% lower. Since...

First this article from Factset on Thursday. I thought it was a decent summary on Q1 ’16 financial results YTD.Thomson data “by the numbers”: The forward 4-quarter estimate fell to...