ETF Analysis & Opinion

The coronavirus blowback that’s roiling the world cut into every facet of the major asset classes last week, based on a set of exchange-traded funds. Another challenging week awaits, as sharp...

The last 6 months in this market have been the most unusual of my career as a public analyst. And I tried warning many of you of the potential, yet most chose to deride my perspective, as many got...

The week of March 16 is likely to be wild as the bulls and bears continue to fight it out. It certainly seems like the late-day rally on Friday at least gave investors a chance to go home over the...

The global markets were hit hard as even traditional safe havens did not work. Many countries are on lockdown and most likely, we are already in a global recession. The 10 year plus bull market has...

I’ve received a lot of questions about gold and its historic freefall this week.Deflation has been the buzz word with the recent market crash. Food commodity prices were hit. Gold miners and...

The dollar index made a three-wave, A-B-C correction within a higher degree wave B) and found support slightly above the 94.5 support level. Latest sharp rise can be part of an unfolding bullish...

Markets are still working through their declines as they seek a point of seller's exhaustion. The Russell 2000 (via iShares Russell 2000 ETF (NYSE:IWM)), as the index of speculative stocks, is the one...

Well, just about the only thing left that countless millions of people rely on to give their lives some kind of meaning is failing. The seven-year support level for retail has been...

To follow up on the Biotechnology IBB sector, it failed the low price from two weeks ago (109.70) until headlines (below) hit the tape.Furthermore, four of the Modern Family members have broken a...

The ETF that holds Biogen (NASDAQ:BIIB), Regeneron (NASDAQ:REGN), Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN), Gilead (NASDAQ:GILD) as four of the top ten in its basket, sits near the low price from two weeks ago (109.70).I...

I don’t know why you’d try to cobble together an income stream with miserly ETFs when, thanks to this selloff, we’ve got a huge sale on closed-end funds (CEFs) throwing off...

Another big hit to markets yesterday sent indices spinning lower. The Russell 2000 (via iShares Russell 2000 ETF (NYSE:IWM)) took the worst of it with a 9.7% loss, closing at the low of the day on...

ARCA Oil

When the market is selling off, it’s easy to panic as big losses rack up in your account.Here’s the thing, though: going to cash, and fully exposing yourself to inflation, is a guaranteed...