ESGL News and Press, Invesco ESG Revenue ETF Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II From 12/30/19

Jeff Sommer writes in the New York Times : “It is the time of year for predictions and I’ll make one: You will be better off ignoring the Wall Street stock-market predictions for 2020. Strategists, some of whom are very smart, are issuing precise predictions for where ...

By Detlef Glow The year 2019 will be remembered as a good year for equity investors, with the equity markets around the world running up returns in double-digit numbers. 2019 will also be considered a good year for the European fund industry, since the mutual funds of European promoters wi...

The economic calendar is normal in another week split by a holiday. Many market participants will not show up until Thursday – and perhaps not even then. The ISM reports, manufacturing and non-manufacturing, are both post-holiday. My guess is that the financial media will continue the a...

New Homes Sales Slow and steady improvement for new homes continues, as sales in November came in at an annualized rate of 719,000, which was up 1.3% from a downwardly revised 710,000 in October. This places new home sales up 16.9% over the past year. Sales prices have risen to the point t...

Purpose I look at the high frequency weekly indicators because while they can be very noisy, they provide a good nowcast of the economy and will telegraph the maintenance or change in the economy well before monthly or quarterly data is available. They are also an excellent way to "mark yo...

In 2018, the Federal Reserve pursued an interest rate policy the led to the yield curve (10y/2y) inverting. This year, the Federal Reserve Bank has reduced the Fed Funds rate three times in response to a slowing economy that developed in 2018. The last 25-basis point rate cut occurred in Octob...

As the major indices continue to establish fresh record highs in the past week with the Nasdaq eyeing an eleventh consecutive up day today, sentiment has actually not shared in moving higher. The reading on bullish sentiment from the AAII fell this week, down to 41.89% from 44.1% last week. ...

In investing, no one metric tends to provide 100% certainty into the future direction of the market or individual stock or bond for that matter. Though sentiment measures do provide insight into the so-called mind of the market, or better yet, the mind of the individual or institutional invest...

By Scott Bauer At A Glance A rally in the week after the Christmas holiday is common, but has only occurred in two of the previous four years. The theories for what causes a Santa Claus rally go from trader optimism to year-end tax considerations. A Santa Claus rally describes a ...

What a difference a year makes. The fourth quarter of 2018 appeared to be the smashing end of the great bull market. An inverted yield curve, weakening macro data, very negative sentiment, and a Federal Reserve intent on hiking rates, even as the China trade war heated up, gave plenty of reas...