ETF Analysis & Opinion

Yesterday, we noted that the energy sector stands to gain the most from a variety of recent fundamental tailwinds. Those include optimism that three newly announced coronavirus vaccines will help spur...

Thanksgiving Day gatherings commence in the U.S. on Thursday, Nov. 26. This event also marks the start of the end-of-year holiday season.The following day, this year Nov. 27, has been dubbed Black...

Positive news on COVID-19 vaccine progress has sparked a massive rally on Wall Street this month, with both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 notching a series of new record highs in...

One would think the financial sector would be doing quite well related to the booming housing market and a decline in overall consumer debt and delinquency levels. Historically, the XLF Fund...

Positive vaccine news in recent weeks has boosted the appeal of cyclical stocks likely to see shares run up in a post-vaccine world. Sectors set to profit like energy, transportation, travel and...

The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) release came out yesterday giving insight into the economy's health as the market ramps up with increased consumer sales and all-time highs for hiring. Additionally...

The investment community is not only willing to look beyond virus vaccination to economic nirvana, it is also willing to ignore extraordinary stock overvaluation. Consider the price-to-revenue metric....

Markets have displayed some bipolar behavior after Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) and Pfizer/BioNTech announced encouraging late-stage trial results for their COVID-19 vaccines over the last few weeks. Both...

The recent positive news on the vaccine front as reported by Pfizer (NYSE:PFE), BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX) and Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) has brought cheer to several sectors including energy, travel and...

Aerospace and defense (A&D) stocks or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) focusing on that segment typically get significant investor attention. It is a large industry with robust, established companies....

The S&P 500 finished Wednesday lower by 1.2%, and the NASDAQ fell by around 70 bps. It was a sleeper most of the day, with the action coming in the final hour after NYC announced it was closing...

Why the focus on the September highs? Because they came with extremes in breadth metrics for the S&P and NASDAQ—marking levels typically associated with a major top. The action from Monday...

Yesterday, I bought some puts on GDX (NYSE:GDX), the precious metals mining ETF. So far, so good: Here is GDX. There is no breakdown yet, but if it slips below that horizontal, look out...

Established market wisdom suggests small cap companies tend to outperform large ones over the long-run.However, the past decade has mostly seen small-caps lag large-caps, especially in the US. For...