EFIV News and Press, SPDR S&P 500 ESG From 04/11/24

2024-04-11 10:00:00 ET Summary Important earnings season ahead as investors look for signs that we are still in soft landing territory despite persistently strong economic data that’s helping to delay rate cuts. Q1 S&P 500 EPS growth expected to come in at 3.2%, the thi...

2024-04-08 03:58:05 ET Summary iShares MSCI KLD 400 Social ETF is a passively managed ETF that tracks the MSCI KLD 400 Social Index, focusing on US companies with positive ESG characteristics. DSI's top holdings are similar to other large-cap ETFs, lacking diversification benefits...

2024-04-04 08:20:00 ET Summary The Top 10 stocks within the market cap-weighted index together accounted for 32.5% of its total valuation. Microsoft has become the biggest company in the S&P 500 with a market cap of nearly $3.3 trillion as of 28 March 2024, rising from a $2.79...

2024-04-01 17:14:09 ET Summary iShares® ESG Advanced MSCI USA ETF implements an environmental, social, and corporate governance (“ESG”) strategy focused on large companies. The USXF ETF displays expensive valuation ratios, superior growth rates, and some excess ...

2024-04-01 05:16:00 ET Stock Traders Daily has produced this trading report using a proprietary method.  This methodology seeks to optimize the entry and exit levels to maximize results and limit risk, and it is also applied to Index options, ETFs, and futures for our subscribers. This...

2024-03-28 09:35:00 ET Summary In the US 2024 presidential elections, President Biden will stand for re-election, while former President Trump will challenge him. Several notable third-party (or “no-label”) candidates will also be on many state ballots and could prove di...

2024-03-26 05:55:00 ET Summary The Magnificent Seven make up almost 30% of the S&P 500 market capitalization and accounted for almost 60% of the index’s return in 2023. Much of the rally in equities can be attributed to the performance of a handful of mega-cap stocks th...

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...