ETF Analysis & Opinion

How has the US stock market performed so far this year? The answer, as always, depends on the definition of “the market.” If we’re slicing and dicing by factor buckets these days,...

Investing in the Canadian and Russian markets may not only be appealing for citizens of those countries. Bets on those regional assets could be beneficial for market participants beyond each country's...

As mentioned yesterday, The Big Banks ETF XLF and Regional Banks ETF KRE are two of the weaker sectors. However, yesterday we saw some money rotate into those sectors with XLF rising over 1%...

After weeks of small gains it was Large Caps in the form of the S&P and Dow Jones Industrials which both posted stronger gains. Large Caps posted gains on higher volume accumulation with strong...

One day Volatility will return to the financial markets. When that day arrives (and why) is anyone’s guess. Meantime, vol remains in remission across the major asset classes, based on a set of...

The 'new normal' in the days of COVID-19 means an increasing number of people are working-from-home, shopping online, learning virtually and even finding entertainment from the comfort of their own...

Looking for exposure to the foreign exchange market?  Currency exchange-traded funds (CETF) are one avenue worth considering.CETFs act as vehicles for portfolio diversification, hedging and...

Higher stock prices every day – or so it seems. And understandably so, given Fed's inflation tolerance, and regardless of consumer confidence taking an earlier hit. With the stimulus bill still...

Since the 1993 publication by Eugene Fama and Kenneth French of their landmark paper “Common risk Factors in the returns on stock and bonds,” the small-cap effect has been seen as one of...

There will be a lot of market-moving data this week, with the manufacturing PMI, non-manufacturing PMI and job reports. These will have significant impacts on rates, and the movement of the dollar,...

The news of last week was the Fed’s announcement about their “updated monetary policy strategy.”The big change was to suggest that they would let inflation overshoot their 2% goal in...

The weekend is the time to step back and look at the Modern Family’s weekly trends and inflection points. This week there are several interesting mulit-time frame patterns developing on the...

Another week, another risk-on rally. US stocks continued to be a leader this past week in global markets. The SPDR S&P 500 Fund (NYSE:SPY) surged 3.3% at the close of the trading week (Aug. 28),...

Bulls Breakout To New HighsA couple of weeks ago, I wrote a wildly unpopular article laying out why, if the bulls could push the markets to new all-time highs, the next target would be 3750. With the...