DMRL News and Press, DeltaShares S&P 500 Managed Risk ETF From 12/10/21

Over the summer, I highlighted the rapid increase in leverage being put to use on the part of speculators in the equity markets. The smartest of smart money, corporate executives and other insiders, are now selling at the fastest annual pace on record. The simple fact that insider...

Global economic growth will be slower but still above trend in 2022. This forecast should allow equities to outperform bonds. Inflation has yet to peak, but it will likely decline over the year and as a result any central bank tightening will be modest. 2021 was a year of rebound ...

The most recent macro-related headline grabber was the November jobs report. For the record, there are two parts to the employment report: the establishment survey, which includes payrolls, earnings and hours worked, and the household survey, which contains the jobless rate data. ...

A full 40.4% of price gains have come from companies buying back their shares (something considered illegal market manipulation up until 1982). In other words, in the absence of share repurchases, the S&P would now be closer to 2700 than 4600 and have averaged a total of about 3% ...

The US Census Bureau today reported that US imports of goods and services reached a record monthly high of $290.7 billion in October 2021. China’s GAC says imports into that country continue to rise at a seemingly decent rate, up a sizzling 31.7% year-over-year in October. ...

Our playbook for the upcoming December Fed meeting. The major stock indexes are back to their all-time high, brushing off recent Omicron concerns and broader macro uncertainties. The upcoming Fed meeting will be critical because it could signal a more hawkish shift in policy to ad...

The latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the total number of job openings in the economy rose to 11.033 million in October, up from 10.602 million in September. The number of open positions in the private sector increased to 10.118 mi...

The result of the unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus has been a rapid return to unemployment rates that are higher, though only about 2%, than before the COVID pandemic. US GDP has recovered all the ground lost in 2020 and is now at a record high. Monetary policy remains highl...

While the dominant theme for 2022 will be the battle between inflation and policy rates, we must inevitably get to the elephant. Quantitative easing has been a driving force behind markets since the global financial crisis, the silver bullet that central bankers have discovered that h...

Along with only a handful of other stock markets, the US held up reasonably well amid the global rout, outperforming the FTSE All-World Index for November and barely denting its significant lead for the year so far. The Russell 1000's outperformance versus its global peers in November...