ETF Analysis & Opinion

Despite a red-hot stock market, for the fourth week in a row, investors were overall net redeemers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), withdrawing $36.9 billion for...

NASDAQ 100 Stocks in the US are pulling back some today, especially in the NASDAQ 100. The QQQ are down about 80 basis points, which is nothing considering how much they are up just this week. But...

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...

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...

In early August I wrote about 3 major market themes that I expected would continue to emerge or completely reverse. First was the focus on the junk bonds (NYSE:JNK) and investment grade bonds...

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...

Given the recent volatility in broader markets, many investors are seeking stability. Utilities are considered a strong defensive play given the consistent demand for water, gas and electricity...

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...