ETF Analysis & Opinion

Finally, things have started to fall into place for Europe. The Euro zone has gathered steam, having logged a 0.4% growth rate in the first quarter – the highest quarterly growth in nearly 2...

The US stock market has regained the pole position for the trailing one-year return (250 trading days) among the major asset classes via our standard set of ETF proxies. Vanguard Total Stock Market...

Dow JonesThe Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Composite index both eclipsed all-time closing records on Monday, amid growing possibility that the Federal Reserve could delay a...

Brazilian state-run energy giant Petroleo Brasileiro Petrobras SA (NYSE:PBR) reported first-quarter 2015 results on May 15. The company reported first-quarter 2015 earnings per share of 14 cents (down...

One set-up that stood out to me recently was the weekly chart of the Vanguard REIT ETF (ARCA:VNQ). While U.S. equities hit a fresh high last week, REITs are basically flat for 2015.With the recent...

Today's chart of the day focuses on the global stock market conditions and in particular the under-performance of the emerging market equities.Chart Of The Day: Emerging Markets (ARCA:EEM) have been...

Summary: US indices are in an uptrend. But what they have lacked is the ability to sustain upward momentum for more than a week or two. With the SPDR S&P 500 (ARCA:SPY) at a new ATH, another test...

U.S. dollar strength is on a roller-coaster ride this year with the currency strengthening massively in the early part of the year on rising rate speculations in the U.S., but falling against a basket...

T2108 Status: 53.0%T2107 Status: 54.1%VIX Status: 12.4General (Short-term) Trading Call: Neutral.Active T2108 periods: Day #144 over 20%, Day #103 above 30%, Day #47 above 40%, Day #2 over 50%...

The economic news today was not good. The Fed's Industrial Production index for April posted its fifth consecutive monthly decline. Michigan Consumer Sentiment took a dive, its biggest plunge since...

There is one thing that has always nagged me during the 2nd longest bull-market run in U.S. history. Corporations have roughly the same revenue per share today as they did halfway through 2007. And...

We might need The Lone Ranger to perform that same cry out this week, but for another Silver. The shiny metal is trying to break out of a nearly 8-month base. The chart above shows the Silver ETF...

Income investors have known this day would come eventually – just as you shift all of your focus to U.S.-based markets where the momentum was strongest, the tide turns to overseas strength....

The last post I wrote took long-term look at the S&P 500 from a monthly viewpoint. Today I want to look at the S&P 500 SPDR ETF (ARCA:SPY) on a daily chart but focus on volume and what that...