BFTR News and Press, BLACKROCK ETF TRUS From 06/28/23

2023-06-28 03:20:00 ET Summary Headline inflation has peaked in most regions. The biggest contributor is the decline in energy prices. Core inflation in Europe has largely been driven by the second-round effects of last year’s big increases in oil and gas prices. Megaca...

2023-06-27 05:38:00 ET Summary Our measures of market internals remain unfavorable, interest rates are nowhere near zero, long-term bond yields - as we’ll see - remain inadequate, and recession risk is quickly increasing. Defining a bull market as the S&P 500 above its ...

2023-06-27 02:18:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 earnings yield rose a little this week, to 5.16%, from last week’s 5.10%. Walgreens, Micron Technology, and NIKE report this coming week. The May ’23 PCE and Core PCE data is scheduled to be released before the marke...

2023-06-27 02:00:00 ET Summary Investors today find themselves in the midst of a peculiar dance between the S&P 500 weighted and unweighted index, the discordance of which might just be spelling out a financial narrative we need to grasp. We must remember the tried and true wi...

2023-06-26 13:05:00 ET Summary It appears we have started the third correction in stocks since the bottom in October of last year. Homebuilder stocks tend to lead the US housing market index by a few months, and this time was no exception. Currencies tend to move based on chan...

2023-06-26 03:00:00 ET Summary Large-cap indexes, specifically those comprised of U.S. equities, are leading market performance. Investors seem to be attracted to stocks other than the handful of mega-cap stocks that have garnered outsized attention so far this year. A broader...

2023-06-24 05:36:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 has been climbing higher in recent weeks, thanks almost entirely to surging mega-cap stocks that are riding the ripple effects of AI hysteria. The S&P 500 has been on an impressive run, rising approximately 13% this year. However,...

2023-06-24 01:46:00 ET Summary Since the March trough, the S&P 500 Index has gained around 14% and ten-year Treasury yields have risen roughly 0.50%. As market conditions have improved, inter-asset correlations have also shifted. My base case is a slowing but still resilie...

2023-06-23 19:45:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 has pulled back about 2.2% since its high close for the year on June 15th. The market is still trading well above both its 50-day moving average and its 200-day moving average. Normally you’d expect to see the stocks that g...

2023-06-22 23:15:00 ET Summary Consistent with our January Outlook, we see further mild upside for US equities. However, this year’s constructive price action should not be characterized as a new bull market. Financial assets have enjoyed the window of disinflation that com...