ETF Analysis & Opinion

I have been constructive on Eurozone equities for some time. The imbalances in the region are healing slowly. Ed Yardeni, in his Fed Blog, highlighted a speech by ECB Vice-President Vítor...

Ahead of this weekend's Japanese elections that will decide control of the country's upper house of parliament, stocks in the world's third-largest economy tumbled. During Friday's Asian session, the...

Earnings season is starting to ramp up, and its abundantly clear that we have a problem. We had this occur last year as we were pushing all-time highs in markets, and the bulls wouldn't let stocks...

The 10-year Treasury flirted with a yield of 2.75% as recently as last week. That was before Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke did the Texas Two Step, clarifying the central bank’s intention to suppress...

Stocks rebounded on Wednesday as Ben Bernanke reminded Congress that the dreaded “taper” would be triggered by data rather than a date.Wednesday’s big event was Federal Reserve...

Randgold Resources (GOLD) and the iShares Silver Trust ETF (SLV) are back on the most bullish stocks on Twitter list (for the past week). For a sustained advance, the precious metals will need to make...

Monday brought the stock market to new record-high closing levels for the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Russell 2000. The stock market managed to break new records on Monday, despite a disappointing...

Well, folks, we’re halfway through the month, and this month has simply sucked. The market just inches (or “yards”) higher every day on volume that’s smaller and smaller. But...

The Financials sector ranks tenth out of the ten sectors as detailed in my Sector Rankings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. It gets my Dangerous rating, which is based on aggregation of ratings of 44...

Transportation bellwether United Parcel Service (UPS) reduced its full-year profit forecast due to a weak economy. Fast food giant Yum Brands (YUM) experienced declines in earnings as well as revenue....

Analysts forecast that China GDP is slowing which presents potential opportunities for investors using China ETFs. China appears to be playing a game of “whack-a-mole” in attempt to...

In February I announced a new “Dual ETF Momentum” spreadsheet. The objective of the spreadsheet is to track four pairs of ETFs and provide an “Invested” signal for the ETF in...