ETF Analysis & Opinion

Last week, redemptions in the ETF space involved $5.0 billion from S&P 500 proxies as well as $3.7 billion from the small-cap arena via the iShares Russell 2000 Fund (ARCA:IWM) alone. Market...

The S&P 500 bounced back yesterday after the previous day's interruption of a two-day rally. The day was light on economic news, but a buy-the-dip mentality apparently prevailed in advance of...

The U.S. ETF industry has been gaining immense popularity over mutual funds or any other alternative investment fund thanks to its transparency, liquidity, tax effectiveness and cost efficiency. As...

The commodity stock strength we wrote about here last week, promptly reversed on Tuesday and did the opposite of last week’s action. As of yesterday, here's where we stand:Alcoa (NYSE:AA):...

Upcoming US Events for Today:Weekly Crude Inventories will be released at 10:30am. FOMC Minutes will be released at 2:00pm . International Events Today:Bank of England Minutes  released at 4:30am...

If you manage your own investments, chances are good you read dozens—if not hundreds—of articles every year offering advice on what to buy for your retirement portfolio.  Most of the...

Weak pre-market retail numbers set the stage for yesterday's selloff, which snapped a two-day rally. The S&P 500 opened fractionally lower at its intraday high and traded modestly lower until...

From a technical view, the ETF is shaping a rising wedge pattern at this stage and it is reversing down from the upper part of the pattern. Regarding technical indicators, the weekly RSI is capped by...

After experiencing a year of extraordinary volatility during 2013 the gold miners (Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (ARCA:GDX)) have turned downright dormant during the past few weeks: For 9 consecutive...

Upcoming US Events for Today:No significant economic events scheduled.  International Events for Today:German PPI for April released at 2:00am EST.  The market expects a year-over-year...

Last week, at the same time that the Dow had been hitting an all-time high, the Russell 2000 had been crossing below its long-term 200-day trendline. This particular divergence between U.S....

Thanks to commodity strength and another bout of volatility in the stock market, precious metals have been seeing smooth trading this year. In fact, most of the precious metals are crushing the broad...

Rather than a Great Rotation from bonds into equities, the rotation instead has been from growth into value. Among the ten U.S. business sectors, uber-defensive sector Utilities is still the clear...