ETF Analysis & Opinion

Equity prices in emerging markets posted the strongest gain for the major asset classes for the trading week through Friday, July 10, based on a set of US-listed exchange traded funds.Vanguard FTSE...

The way most folks invest, they’ll need way more than a million bucks to retire—in fact, they’ll need almost double that!No wonder so many people throw up their hands and commit to...

It will be a big week for the stock market as earnings season kicks into high gear. We will get results from all the big banks starting on Tuesday, and how these results go could begin to set the tone...

With the week behind us the S&P stood poised to break to new highs for the recovery rally,  following the lead of the NASDAQ which is already posting new multi-year highs. The Russell 2000...

US equities once again put in a mixed performance with small caps (NYSE:IWM) lagging, down -.76% for week, while Nasdaq 100 was up +4.67 % and registered yet another new all-time high on Friday....

Perhaps the most incredible aspect of the market and for traders is the ever-changing landscape of investment opportunities.I spend a lot of time telling followers that the rules have changed. The...

Lipper’s fund asset groups (including both mutual funds and ETFs) took in $16.9 billion of net new money for the fund-flows trading week ended Wednesday, July 8. The taxable bond funds group...

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...

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...

It is rare to see an island bottom.However, the one in UNG or the ETF for natural gas had a classic one. After making new all-time lows, an island confirmed suggests a reversal of the downtrend. But...

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...