EFIV News and Press, SPDR S&P 500 ESG From 05/17/23

2023-05-17 22:05:00 ET Summary Despite the stock market rally so far in 2023, the S&P 500 Index has not come close to regaining its all-time high put in early last year. The stock/bond ratio has soared to new highs. It would appear that stocks need bonds to rally hard and ...

2023-05-17 12:32:00 ET Summary After the Silicon Valley Bank run in the first quarter of 2023, dividend futures quickly collapsed. When we last presented 2023's dividend futures, the dividends expected in 2023-Q4 had recovered to $16.41 per share as the risk of more bank fail...

2023-05-16 23:35:00 ET Summary 2023 is now continuing that past pattern of growth and large-cap growth relative performance. If you look at the 10 and 15-year annualized returns across all the US equity asset classes, even straight value vs. growth, the returns are not all that ap...

2023-05-16 10:30:00 ET Summary Looking forward to the end of 2023, expectations for the index's future earnings per share have increased from $199.28 to $203.50. Earnings at that level would correspond to a full recovery to the level of earnings recorded in March 2022, which marks...

2023-05-16 02:35:00 ET Summary The current economic and investing environment remains one of the most challenging and difficult to navigate in recent times. With inflation and wage growth at current levels, we likely require a material amount of pain to be felt within the equity a...

2023-05-15 14:35:00 ET Summary The financial sector hasn’t seen much degradation of its expected 2023 growth rate of +13%, even with the regional bank issues. Despite the headlines, negative EPS revisions for the energy sector have been far worse than for the financial sect...

2023-05-15 13:49:00 ET Summary After the previous week's Fed-driven volatile action, investors got some relief in the second week of May 2023. Despite the relative stillness, there wasn't enough positive news to offset the negative to boost the U.S. stock market higher. The ma...

2023-05-15 05:18:00 ET Summary The economic slowdown, while clear and persistent, has been mild, so far. The current consensus S&P 500 Index earnings estimate for calendar year 2023 is $220 per share, which gives a forward price-to-earnings multiple of 19 times. We think i...

2023-05-11 03:00:00 ET Summary In its effort to tame inflation, the U.S. Federal Reserve is likely to pause at the top of its interest rate cycle rather than quickly pivot toward rate cuts. But in either scenario, history suggests fixed income can offer attractive return potential, es...

2023-05-10 03:10:00 ET Summary Earnings season has been better than feared, but all eyes are on how the current quarter progresses and emerging risks to corporate profits. We spotlight a pair of troubled financial institutions with unusual earnings events. AT&T, meanwhile,...