ETF Analysis & Opinion

What you are about to read will not focus on political views, sanctions or any other fuel added by the media to this existing crisis. All of that information is simply noise. What matters to us as...

The German market has been on my radar since last October. It had a great run higher, then ran into the same consolidation that the S&P 500 has been experiencing. The DAX tried to push higher...

U.S. corporate earnings growth has slowed. Heck, if you are looking at companies in the Dow Industrials, earnings have actually declined for three of the last four quarters. Yet record highs for...

Key market indexes surged at the end of the world’s largest democratic exercise. As polling ended in India, the Sensex gained 2.42% to end above 23,000. The Nifty posted an even more...

Unlike last year, 2014 has seen a pretty decent performance from the mortgage Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) sector. Contrary to the popular belief that escalation of the Fed taper will result in...

Alcoa (NYSE:AA): +4.23% yesterday on average volume Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold (NYSE:FCX): +2.89% on average volume Peabody Energy (NYSE:BTU): +2.41% on 2(x) average volume US Steel (NYSE:X):...

Folks, there is a technical breakdown on the charts of the small-cap, growth, and technology groups in the stock market. I can’t say I’m surprised, given the major run-up in 2013 and the...

At the end of February the year to date performance for the dividend payers in the S&P 500 Index significantly trailed the performance of the non-payers by a large 673 basis points. Two months...

Ten weeks ago this morning (2/28), the Power of the Pattern reflected in the chart below that the white hot Bio-Tech sector looked to be hitting Fibonacci & Channel resistance and could be peaking...

Upcoming US Events for Today:Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for March will be released at 10:00am. The market expects 4.125M versus 4.173M previous. Wholesale Trade for March will be released...

Nobody can tell you when a 10% stock market pullback is imminent. That has not stopped many from issuing erroneous prognostications over the last 31 months. By the same token, no individual can...

Coal has been regarded as a dirty rock with a bad reputation since anyone can remember. We were all primed from an early age to believe that Santa brought coal to bad kids. So when Market Vectors Coal...

The grocery retailer Whole Foods Market (WFM) reported lackluster Q2 results after the market closed yesterday. The company missed our estimates on both the top and the bottom lines, and reduced its...

Relatively solid performances in corporate earnings and economic growth suggest that equities markets should maintain the stable outlook that was largely expected at the beginning of this year. But...