ETF Analysis & Opinion

As the mainstream business media like CNBC and Bloomberg keep pointing out, the similarities to today’s S&P 500 and the late 1990s are unmistakable: the incredible out-performance of Tech as...

The malls were high risk before COVID-19, given the number of bankruptcies of chain stores such as Pier 1 and Toys "R" Us.Online shopping generated malls to become like ghost towns. Now with COVID-19,...

China’s stock market is enjoying a banner year in 2020, partly due to a surge in prices in recent days. Using a set of US exchange-listed funds as proxies for the world’s major equity...

The S&P 500 recovered from yesterday's premarket slump and tried reaching for Monday's highs again before losing altitude. Have we seen a daily reversal, and if so, how serious is this?Given for...

Let’s look at some indexes; I’ve put some remarks beneath each. Dow Composite – still below the price gap, still below the broken intermediate-term trendline, and no bullish...

Having cut my teeth with High-Yield (Junk) bonds back in the heyday of the era, when Drexel Burnham and Michael Milken ruled the kingdom from the famous X-shaped Beverly Hills trading floor (with...

With less than a week until the unofficial start of Wall Street's second-quarter earnings season, investors are bracing for what may be the worst reporting season since the depths of the 2008-09...

Our overall bullish analysis of the U.S. Dollar Index has met with success for several years running. Now, after about four months of correction, the index is at an area that could produce a strong...

The Dow Jones futures are trading lower. There is still a lot of optimism among investors and the current weakness is nothing more than a pause.   The DJIA index is in battle with 200-day...

While there was a big boost from NASDAQ on Monday, the “inside” sectors are not yet believing the tech sector tells the whole story.For example, the financial sector continues to...

After three weeks of losses, real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the US bounced last week, posting the strongest gain for the major asset classes, based on a set of exchange-traded fundsVanguard...

I have separated my long-running Investor section from Weighing the Week Ahead. My hope is to highlight ideas for the long-term investor. In last week’s post I introduced the key concepts and...

The NASDAQ 100 (QQQ) closed the week at new all-time highs, +1.65%, while the Dow Industrials (NYSE:DIA) was down -.2%. In fact, YTD, the Dow is down -9.36% while the Nasdaq 100 is up 18.62%,...

What an incredible and shorter week in the world of high finance.Doomsday news appeared EVERYWHERE yet did not impact the market per se. Gold however, like our recycled, solid gold art installation,...