ETF Analysis & Opinion

There's one group of US companies still scheduled to report Q2 earnings as the season winds down: major retailers. Overall, the sector has been among the big winners as consumers accelerated their...

Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Ripple have attracted widespread attention since Bitcoin was created in 2009. However, the blockchain technology that these cryptocurrencies are based on...

There was a small dose of trouble for indices yesterday as the NASDAQ pulled away from former channel support (turned resistance) with relative performance accelerating away from the Russell 2000....

Yesterday, the S&P 500 reached its highest point in human history. Perhaps to give the 3 bears left on the entire planet a wisp of hope, things went south later in the day, and we wound up with a...

Will yesterday's market tremors shake the Invesco QQQ out of its solidly bullish 4-month channel? On April 14th, the QQQ broke above its 50 DMA (blue line) and began the trend that you see above. A...

Reviewing the global equity market as a single portfolio reveals a sleepy affair for year-to-date results through yesterday’s close (Aug. 10). But slicing and dicing shares into the major equity...

There has been a bit of a rotation trade taking place in the market, and that is resulting in these diverging indexes. The Nasdaq 100 is weaker yesterday, falling by about 50 bps, while the S&P...

I’ve got a fun quiz for you today, and the answer may surprise you, as markets often do.The challenge is simple. The symbols in the image above are not in the correct order of the returns...

The S&P 500 closed again above the mid-Feb bearish gap, and the talk of taking on the all-time highs is intensifying. So does the greed that's growing more extreme with each passing day. With the...

Shares in foreign developed-market nations topped returns last week for the major asset classes. After retreating for two weeks, this corner of global equity markets rebounded and led a wide-ranging...

Friday marked what could be the start of a significant shift in the market following the jobs report. The dollar index rallied sharply and appeared to have put in a double bottom. The index has found...

U.S. large-cap stocks outperformed most commodities and emerging markets over the last decade. The question now: could this trend start to swing in the opposite direction?While the SPDR...

First, a quick note of thanks to Jeff Miller, on his two articles on caution warranted on interpreting the nonfarm payroll report.The first article – which was last weekend or August 2nd –...

The Russell 2000 (via iShares Russell 2000 ETF (NYSE:IWM)) manged both to finish the week with a breakout on Friday and a breakout on the weekly chart. The only downside was the the lack of volume,...