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The European Central Bank (ECB) did not really surprise anyone with its well-telegraphed rate cuts on 6/5/2014. Yet risk assets of all shapes, sizes and geographic origins rallied a bit more than most...

Technology was the best performing sector in the five years prior to the 2000-2002 stock market bear. The acceleration of dot-com mania created a boom-to-bust scenario that few had ever seen. Yet...

Home Depot (NYSE:HD), Target (NYSE:TGT), Dick's Sporting Goods (NYSE:DKS), Staples (NASDAQ:SPLS), PetSmart  (NASDAQ:PETM), Sears (NASDAQ:SHLD), Lowe's (NYSE:LOW), Walmart (NYSE:WMT). What do all...

Scores of investors often regard Benjamin Graham as the grandfather of value investing. Even those who shun Graham’s methods of analyzing securities tend to revere quotes attributed to him. For...

Last week, redemptions in the ETF space involved $5.0 billion from S&P 500 proxies as well as $3.7 billion from the small-cap arena via the iShares Russell 2000 Fund (ARCA:IWM) alone. Market...

Last week, at the same time that the Dow had been hitting an all-time high, the Russell 2000 had been crossing below its long-term 200-day trendline. This particular divergence between U.S....

Back on April 9, I talked about a “Great Rotation” away from momentum plays (e.g., biotech, Internet, small-cap growth, etc.). Where did the smart money go? Demand had been picking up for...

Chief market technician at MKM Partners, Jonathan Krinsky, is the latest commentator to add perspective on the trouble with U.S. small-cap stocks. He noted that roughly 80% of large-cap S&P 500...

U.S. corporate earnings growth has slowed. Heck, if you are looking at companies in the Dow Industrials, earnings have actually declined for three of the last four quarters. Yet record highs for...

Nobody can tell you when a 10% stock market pullback is imminent. That has not stopped many from issuing erroneous prognostications over the last 31 months. By the same token, no individual can...

When U.S. stocks have struggled in 2014, the pattern has had a familiar ring to it. Small-caps have fallen harder than large-caps. Growth-oriented equities have dropped more precipitously than...

Increasingly, clients and prospective clients have been asking me about “liquid alternatives.” On the one hand, I like the thinking behind an inquiry where the liquidity of an investment...

One of the best web sites for identifying trends in the ETF marketplace is ETFscreen.com. And one of the best features at the data aggregation portal is the Relative Strength Factor (RSf)...

How impressive is the rotation into energy stock ETFs? Even natural resources-heavy iShares MSCI Canada (EWC) is hitting fresh 52-week highs. Granted, the recent price movement may not make up...

According to the chief U.S. market strategist at RBC Capital Markets, Jonathan Golub, seven of the last eight bull markets ended at the onset of a recession. There are several problems with this...

All of those Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) alarmists are eating crow for breakfast. They chastised Tim Cook for months. They declared the death of the tech manufacturing giant at every opportunity. And...