ETF Analysis & Opinion

Here's a snapshot of CNBC's world market heat map as at 1:25 am ET Monday February 03. North and South American markets are still closed from Friday. Of particular note is China's Shanghai Index...

US indices fell sharply on Friday as the virus continues to spread, with the first death outside of China reported in the Philippines. China’s onshore markets reopen after the extended Lunar New...

Salesforce com (SA:SSFO34) stock fell to $2.25 in August 2004. What followed is nothing short of spectacular. Shares closed at $182.31 on Friday, up 8000% or 34% compounded annually. In other words,...

Earnings results continue to pour in, and it’s not looking pretty. Through January 31, 227 companies have reported results, representing just about 45% of the entire S&P 500. Of those...

US equities tanked, and as we highlighted last week the spreading virus was simply the tipping point for an insanely overvalued and overbought market. Three out of four equity benchmarks are down for...

It should be an exciting week when trading begins again on Monday. After all, the Chinese markets will open for the first time in a week, and they are likely to be down a lot. The S&P 500 is down...

To cut right to the chase, the overall “estimated” S&P 500 earnings growth for 2020 fell about 1/2 of 1% in January 2020, which, if we annualize, puts the expected 10%...

Further to my post of January 27, the SPX:VIX ratio broke and closed below its 2019 uptrend line on Friday, as shown on the following daily ratio chart.Failure to recapture and hold above, firstly,...

This post was written exclusively for Investing.com It didn’t take long for the S&P 500 to suffer a swift 3% decline, with the index touching technical support around the 3,250 level, as we...

(Friday Market Open) It looks like many investors are running routes out of town before the big football weekend. Disappointing earnings news from Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) and Exxon Mobil ...

Pre-Open Market Analysis Yesterday closed near its high. It is a buy signal bar on the daily chart for a micro double bottom in a bull trend. I wrote this week that the Emini S&P 500 might have to...

The stock market is driven by greed and fear. And when the latter takes full control of the wheel, as is the case right now, value-minded income investors need to stay sharp.It’s been more than...

Stock traders try to keep their emotions under control but the global fear is just not letting it go. Yesterday’s session started badly, but at the end of the day, buyers managed to pull prices...

If you’re in doubt, just “Google” it. That’s how dominant Alphabet‘s Google (GOOG, GOOGL) has become in the digital search space. Just about everyone knows the name...