ANEW News and Press, ProShares MSCI Transformational Changes From 05/08/24

2024-05-08 08:15:00 ET Summary Year to date, technology related companies have been the market leaders, with an increased focus on the ability to generate cash-flow. From a style factor lens, momentum has been the winner. Historically, this style has often been associated with mor...

2024-05-03 14:40:00 ET Summary We do not believe that tech is in bubble territory. We see pockets of irrationality and excess risk-taking, particularly in AI hype names, but this is not pervasive, and it is too extreme to characterize it as a bubble. Our underweight positioning to...

2024-05-03 12:35:00 ET Summary If April showers bring May flowers, then perhaps investors can rejoice that April is over and look forward to better times in May. US equities struggled last month, with the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and Nasdaq all falling by 4.16%, ...

2024-05-03 07:40:00 ET Summary Following last year's strong close, first quarter returns for the capital markets were driven by hope and a measure of fear. The bond market did not fare as well, beginning first with the Fed urging caution about the timing and magnitude of rate cuts...

2024-05-02 15:54:00 ET Summary Artificial intelligence is a nebulous concept that carries different meanings for different people. In the most basic form, it mimics human intelligence and decision-making by processing and categorizing data to respond to a prompt. With the rise and...

2024-05-02 08:36:00 ET Summary In phase one, large-language models processing galaxies of data in the “cloud” gave birth to astounding technologies such as ChatGPT and Sora. Now comes phase two: a new era in which AI moves from the cloud to the “edge,” ...

2024-04-30 07:35:00 ET Summary In any election year, change is on the horizon, but in this uncertain world, the one thing that remains certain is that companies and their underlying earnings will determine the fate of individual stocks. The AI race continues to sort winners from l...

2024-04-25 16:15:00 ET Summary The current generative AI boom is driven by a spectacular increase in the capacity of microchips. A web of servers can perform calculations on these extremely large datasets. We discuss the spectacular innovations giving rise to Nvidia as a leadi...

2024-04-25 15:50:00 ET Summary Alternative data points to a continued slow pace of normalization in services inflation that could keep interest rates higher for longer. The persistence of themes like AI has contributed both to high equity index concentration and strong performance...

2024-04-25 13:15:00 ET Summary Large technology firms are investing a lot to become AI services leaders. They are active across the AI value chain and will likely work to make their foundational model an industry standard. We expect that many sector-specific AI solutions will emer...