ETF Analysis & Opinion

If you don’t have REITs as a permanent asset class in your allocation, you should. And if you do own REITs, you should probably own more. These are bold statements, but I’m here to back...

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” — Frank A. ClarkYesterday, was a relatively quite day until the last half an hour when markets...

The U.S. housing sector failed to match the expected growth in 2014. However, uptick in construction spending, positive housing sales reports, drop in home prices, lower mortgage rates and improving...

It was a great market on Wednesday, and there were new rally highs until the last half hour when it dove straight down, taking out a couple layers of support. It was not a pretty close. But before we...

We are in the middle of the earnings season, and the materials sector is seemingly tempering the overall Q4 growth picture after energy and autos. This is especially true as total earnings from 69.7%...

On February 3, the agro titan Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (NYSE:ADM) came up with mixed results for 4Q14 with earnings beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a wide margin but revenues falling...

The year 2015 began on quite a volatile note and in fact saw the worst start to the New Year since 2008. S&P 500's index fell 3.1% in January while the Dow lost 3.7% – marking its biggest...

T2108 Status: 62.2%T2107 Status: 48.3%VIX Status: 17.3General (Short-term) Trading Call: Mildly bearish (S&P 500 nudged over 50DMA with overhead resistance looming directly overhead. See below for...

ES has formed a triangle on its 60-minute chart (bright blue on chart). It closed just below the triangle top.It’s technically complete for a breakout downwards. In this case, it would probably...

The fourth-quarter results from the big U.S. oil companies like Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM), Chevron (NYSE:CVX) and ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) are now out. As expected, the oil price collapse took a toll on...

The WisdomTree India Earnings Fund (NYSE:EPI) spiked 9% year to date (through Jan. 31) vs. 2% for iShares MSCI Eafe Index Fund (ARCA:EFA), a benchmark for foreign-developed markets and 1% for iShares...

One nice tidbit of evidence for the deflationary environment in which we live is the ETF devoted to (ARCA:agricultural) commodities, shown below. I’m not buying it myself (actually, I’m...

The homebuilding space has been on a tear, starting 2015 on steady economic growth, a healing job market, growing consumer confidence, moderating home prices and, of course, with low interest rates...

The SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production Index (NYSE:XOP) rose nearly 6% on the day yesterday, for its 2nd strongest single day performance since December 2011: Yesterday also...