DIVS News and Press, SmartETFs Dividend Builder ETF From 01/15/23

Summary Markets may be underestimating the stickiness of inflation and central banks’ determination to beat it - and what that means for growth and corporate earnings potential. We favor fixed income and credit over equities, and investment grade over high yield. Should infla...

Summary US Large Cap stocks are still in a short-term downtrend but the long-term uptrend is intact. International Large Cap stocks are in a short-term uptrend versus US Large Cap. The trend has been driven by the falling dollar. US Large Cap value is in a short-term uptrend versus ...

Summary After enduring one of the worst years on record across asset classes, investors should find more cause for optimism in 2023, even as the global economy faces challenges. Inflation is likely to moderate, and risks to the inflation outlook appear more balanced than they did severa...

Summary Looking around the globe, we find a few major stock markets with bullish setups. Most are leaning bearish to perhaps strongly bearish. The S&P 500 is currently 30 on a list of 36 country indexes, with Turkey, Poland, Italy, Denmark, and China taking the top slots. Longer...

Summary Last year marked an inflection point for myriad historic global Bubbles. Attempts to gauge the status of market financial conditions will be obscured by ongoing market instability. Market structure will make the Fed’s job only more challenging. Bubble: A sel...

Summary Global business activity fell for a fifth consecutive month in December, with the rate of decline moderating slightly amid improved supply conditions but still rounding off the worst quarter since 2009 barring lockdown months. At 48.2 in December, the Global PMI - compiled by S&...

Summary Purchasing Managers' Index from S&P Global provides a unique insight into worldwide economic trends, allowing the analysis of business activity by detailed sector in the world's principal regions. S&P Global PMI surveys recorded a fifth month of contracting worldwide bus...

Summary We expect COVID-19 to continue its transition to a global endemic and the status quo to prevail in Russia's war in Ukraine, with no material implications for the global economy. Mild recessions are forecast in the United States and Europe, but resilience in Asia Pacific will pre...

Summary Global equities closed out their worst year since the 2008 financial crisis as central banks launched increasingly aggressive efforts to bring rampant inflation under control. Much of the US’s underperformance versus its peers is an outgrowth of its much larger exposure t...

Summary The upsides to falling demand and spare capacity were fewer supply constraints and a further marked moderation of price pressures. While Japan's factory output downturn likewise moderated slightly, it remained among the sharpest witnessed over the past decade. Future output ...