ETF Analysis & Opinion

The average equity fund (including ETFs) just managed to stay in positive territory for January, posting a 0.28% return for a third consecutive month of plus-side performance. With investors beginning...

Real estate is one of the most widely-followed sectors of the U.S. economy. Recent metrics released by the U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development show New Home Sales in...

In less than a year’s time, the price of silver has rallied from around $12 to the recent highs just over $30. That’s quite a rally! And when silver is in rally mode, it benefits the...

For many investors, looking beyond equities in their home countries is not always easy. Yet, investing in stocks overseas could give access to global industry titans' growth and provide portfolio...

Special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, were hot in 2020, when 248 went public, raising well over $80 billion. New SPACs are issued nearly every week, and many regard them as one of the...

Healthcare became one of the most important areas in daily life and equity markets in 2020. We previously covered several exchange-traded funds in the industry, such as the Health Care Select Sector...

Equity markets are volatile at the moment. The choppiness reminds most investors of the importance of diversification, such as including defensive assets in portfolios. Meanwhile, in the current low...

The earnings season has brought increased volatility as well as downward pressure on broader U.S. indices. As of yesterday, the S&P 500 index has now given up the 2021 gains and is in negative...

Innovation comes in many forms. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) defines innovation as “the implementation of a new or significantly improved product (good or...

In many ways, 2020 was an unforgettable year for investors. Despite rapid initial declines in equities in February and March, stocks not only recovered but hit record highs in subsequent months. And...

Recent days saw the four major U.S. indices hit all-time highs. Yet, not every sector had a strong 2020. Namely, shares of companies in the energy, leisure, travel, insurance and real estate sectors,...

Don’t listen to the index-fund crowd: it is possible to beat the market year in and year out—and you can do it while grabbing big 7%+ dividends, too!There are three steps to pulling off...

Wall Street is on track this week for a flood of quarterly earnings reports from some of the US's biggest companies. Investors will be paying special attention to Big Tech and other businesses whose...

Investors in cannabis stocks and cannabis-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) had a roller-coaster 2020. Until the end of October, many of them had lost around half their value or, in some cases,...