ETF Analysis & Opinion

Europe will not stay down forever. The US will not be the clear market of choice forever. Depressed markets have substantial price recovery potential when their trend reverses from down to up. Here is...

Major U.S. stock indexes bounced higher today on better than expected jobs and factory order data. The S&P 500 (NYSEARCA:SPY) advanced .72% to 1461, back into resistance levels and at levels...

With all the recent central bank actions (e.g., the Fed’s unlimited QE3, the ECB’s Outright Monetary Transactions, and the Bank of Japan’s ongoing initiatives), the expectation of...

Stocks and ETFs rose slightly yesterday after positive economic reports and in anticipation of last night’s Presidential debateStocks and ETFs rose slightly yesterday after the ADP unemployment...

Vanguard shocked the investing world yesterday by announcing that they are changing the benchmark of 22 of its funds from MSCI to FTSE indexes. The most noteworthy effected fund is the Vanguard...

The guts of an ETF are its holdings. And an ETF’s guts are what drive my ETF (and mutual fund) ratings. As highlighted in Barron’s The Danger Within, the only truly diligent assessment of...

Global X FTSE Colombia 20 (GXG), an international ETF, was initially listed in the ETF trading section of our Wagner Daily newsletter a few weeks ago, due to the strong base of consolidation that was...

Stocks, ETFs finish flat and mixed after Spain announces participation in bond buying programStocks and ETFs finished mixed yesterday: the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:SPY) rose .11%, the SPDR Dow...

This morning, the important and highly followed Dow Jones Transportation ETF (NYSE:IYT) is catching a small bid higher. This leading sector has been very weak as of late despite the strong inflated...

Major US stock indexes and ETFs opened strong but then struggled after Fed Chairman Dr. Ben Bernanke’s remarks cooled the animal spirits. The bright note of the day was the September ISM report...

This month’s ETFReplay.com Relative Strength ETF Portfolio has been updated at Scott’s Investments and includes turnover in three of four positions. I previously detailed here and here how...

This morning, the S&P 500 Index e-mini futures (ES-Z2) are trading higher by 6.00 points to 1440.25 per contract. The catalyst for this early gain in the stock market futures comes as the U.S....

It was a weak end to an otherwise strong month, leaving the S&P 500 (SPY) down by -1.3% on the week, but nearly +3.0% higher for the month of September. Emerging Markets (EEM) logged a...

After a consolidation phase, U.S. stock market and ETFs face a huge week of market moving news ahead After nearly three weeks of consolidation, stocks and ETFs have moved off overbought levels and...