ETF Analysis & Opinion

U.S. stock market indexes remain mired below recent highs as fundamental and technical headwinds grow.The U.S. stock market and its major indexes had a good week, however, macro economic data...

Technically SpeakingRSI- with the latest high this past week a bit lower than the last one, the RSI indicator continues to bleed weakness in the present bullish move up. But-at this point my...

Last week’s review of the macro market indicators suggested that moving beyond the April Expiry for options, that the markets were a bit more damaged and showing increasingly mixed signs of...

Last week’s review of the macro market indicators suggested that moving beyond the April Expiry for options, that the markets were a bit more damaged and showing increasingly mixed signs of...

On a quarterly basis, 61% of companies tend to beat top-line revenue numbers. However, corporations are only beating expectations by a paltry 39% for Q1.The revenue shortfall is not hard to explain....

All Crude Oil is not alike. Crude Traders understand this but many others do not. The two major types, Brent North Sea Crude and West Texas Intermediate Crude are the most important. And their...

Half of the largest U.S. corporations are missing revenue targets this earnings season. Non-cyclical sectors from health care to consumer staples are beating the pants of economic growth standouts...

One of the weakest sectors in the stock market has been the coal stocks. This important industry group has been declining since April 2011. At that time, the Market Vectors Coal ETF (KOL) traded as...

After the market closes on Tuesday, April 23, the world will turn its attention to the previously untarnished Apple (APPL). Its epic downward spiral from $700 per share to a sub-$400 price is largely...

As Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda have moved to employ an ultra-loose monetary policy that would make even Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke blush,...

This Great Graphic was in JP Morgan's latest research. It is the cumulative into global ETFs, measure in billions of dollars. To be sure, it is not a comprehensive view of cross border equity flows....

VXX and its sister fund VXZ were the first Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) available for volatility trading in the USA. To have a good understanding of how Barclays Bank PLC iPath S&P 500 VIX...