DMRL News and Press, DeltaShares S&P 500 Managed Risk ETF From 03/22/22

Jerome Powell, Fed chair, attempted to put the stock market straight today by announcing that the Fed would do whatever was necessary to stop inflation. This was a catch-up speech trying to turn around the feeling coming out of the FOMC meeting last week that the Fed was not really ve...

As 2022 progresses, elevated inflation is likely to take a toll on the pace of economic growth and job creation. With a strong labor market, the amount of dollars spent by consumers can keep growing, but with inflation, the quantity of goods and services received may decline. Neve...

Volatility persists - but it is accompanied by a shift back to market patterns associated with pre-war concerns about inflation and rising rates. Grain and fertilizer shortages could become an issue later this year, but energy prices remain the major immediate transmission mechanism t...

The Fed wants to tighten financial conditions and bring them back to neutral. Tighter financial conditions are bad news for stock prices. The Fed wants financial conditions to tighten through monetary policy. For further details see: The Fed Is Focused On Bringing Down A...

The S&P 500 is not a good representation of a composite of stocks but of a select few stocks. The S&P 500 Index has been skewed toward tech and other growth stocks over time. We like high quality companies with solid balance sheets that have a growth strategy. For fu...

The S&P 500 experienced its second Lévy flight event of 2022. Whenever investors reset how far they are looking into the future, we recognize that stock prices are undergoing a Lévy flight event. Dividend futures were stable throughout the week. For further det...

The stock market had its best week since November 2020. History shows stocks have a positive bias in the 6-12 months after the first rate hike of a new cycle. If we are now in a period of stagflation, corporate earnings growth will be the key to positive returns, as it was in the ...

European stocks actually performed better than the NASDAQ last week so maybe it was positive developments in the Ukraine war that spurred the rally. The dollar index fell nearly 1% last week but is still in an uptrend across shorter time frames. What the market does on a week to w...

The economy is running hot, and it takes time for those rate hikes to take effect and cool down inflation. According to our options research, we have entered positive gamma again. Positive gamma is when things become less volatile and we are more apt to see a slow upward grind in the ...

The forward 4-quarter estimate ticked higher this past week to $227.41 from last week’s $226.46 and 12/31/21’s $216.14. It’s hard to get very bullish with the Fed planning on numerous rate hikes this year. If commodity prices do collapse, I think that gives th...