ETF Analysis & Opinion

Markets enter the last full week of August showing increasingly more bifurcation than we’ve seen nearly throughout this entire bull market rally (which I would argue actually ended in February...

Friday's upswing took stocks to the all-time highs again, and the tech sector was in the driver's seat. Healthcare and consumer discretionaries also did well, but that's far from enough as the market...

US housing data released last week encouraged investors, as Housing Starts, Building Permits and Existing Home Sales all beat expectations.Despite the economic uncertainties amid the novel coronavirus...

Last week ended on a strong note for the members of the Modern Family who were already leading. The laggards iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (NASDAQ:IBB) and SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF...

Last week’s news was filled with stories about how the FANG stocks and particularly Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) were the main driving forces behind the new highs in the indexes and their ETFs (i.e. SPY...

Things tick along in markets with little fanfare; the NASDAQ and S&P both registered gains on the final day of trade last week, but the Russell 2000 took a small loss—though not enough to...

This week the headlines declared the bear market over as the S&P 500 joined the NASDAQ in making new all-time highs.A new bull market has begun according to the celebratory narratives. It is true...

Oil prices have been on a wild ride in 2020. After reaching historic lows in April, the commodity attracted widespread attention from investors.Most recently, United States Oil Fund (NYSE:USO) has...

For the second week in a row, investors were overall net redeemers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), withdrawing $10.2 billion for Refinitiv Lipper’s fund-flows...

Yesterday was the first time that the SPY opened lower than the prior day’s low since July 24th. The same is true for the QQQ. Grandpa Russell did it just last week, but not since July 7th prior...

The coronavirus blowback and the crowd’s ongoing preference for high-flying growth investments aren’t doing any favors for value investing strategies. Perhaps the chaos of 2020 is laying...

Since early spring, broader equity markets in the US have been charging ahead. On Aug. 18, the S&P 500 index closed at 3,389.78, above its previous peak of 3,386.15 in February. So far in the...

With so much attention being paid to Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) reaching a valuation of $2 trillion, I decided to see if AAPL’s market cap would make it into the IMF’s list of the...

Yesterday was a day of small losses but no real damage to the rallies. With the S&P 500 joining the NASDAQ in erasing COVID losses, everyone is waiting for sellers to sweep in and kill this rally...