CSTNL News and Press, iShares VII PLC Core S&P 500 UCITS ETF From 03/23/24

2024-03-23 06:30:00 ET Summary Based on the valuation measures, we find best correlated with actual subsequent S&P 500 total returns across a century of market cycles. Because stocks are ultimately a claim on future cash flows that must be delivered over time, higher starting ...

2024-03-21 06:52:00 ET Summary Every part of my being knew that I could not liquidate my portfolio, but my emotions kept driving me towards the sell button. I realized that betting against the US economy and equity markets was akin to betting against the policymakers, human ingenu...

2024-03-20 09:30:00 ET Summary The outlook for each future quarter's dividends has improved in the period from mid-November 2023 to mid-March 2024. The market turbulence would most likely take place during the upcoming quarter of 2024-Q2, which would subsequently show up in the di...

2024-03-12 05:35:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 dipped during the first full trading week of March 2024; the index closed out the week at 5,123.69. The Fed's confirmation followed last week's hint from Fed officials that they plan to implement a new kind of quantitative easing-styl...

2024-03-11 08:35:00 ET Summary The big reversal in Nvidia got a lot of attention on Friday, as the market darling closed down 5% on heavy volume. The problem for the S&P 500 is, everything seems overbought, if you scrutinize the above sector snapshot from this weekend’s...

S&P 500 earnings data (courtesy of IBES data by Refinitiv) continues to show positive sequential increases in weekly S&P 500 earnings estimates for various time frames, which is usually a good thing. The correction being seen in the US equity market - at least so far anyway - isn't s...

In this article, I’ll be talking about the extreme concentration driving the S&P 500 index and the five mega-tech stocks that have given rise to the index’s forbidding valuation. I’ll also be letting you know about enticing value stocks that can reduce portfolio risk a...

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2020's summer rally for the S&P 500 (Index: SPX ) came to a crashing end on September 3, 2020. It turns out a good portion of the rally that preceded its sudden was juiced by an unusual investment strategy launched by Japan's SoftBank (SFTBY), a venture capital investment bank that appe...

Each week, when the core IBES data by Refinitiv is dropped into the spreadsheets, I try and think about which of the datasets is most meaningful. This week, this table wasn't what was expected: The expected y/y revenue growth for Q3 and Q4 '20 is still improving as we approach the quarters...