ESGL News and Press, Invesco ESG Revenue ETF Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II From 03/06/20

Here are some things I think I am thinking about: 1) Is it different this time? I wrote in my book that it's always different this time. No two economic environments will ever be the same, but we can learn a bit from history and better prepare ourselves for what might be coming. I wrot...

By Jill Mislinski In Wednesday morning's ADP employment report, we got the February estimate of 183K new nonfarm private employment jobs from ADP, a decrease over January's revised 209K. The popular spin on this indicator is as a preview to the monthly jobs report from the Bureau of Labor ...

The Labor Market Is Underpinning The U.S. Economy The labor market and consumer health have been underpinning the U.S. economic recovery for years. The data for 2020 has so far been good and points to some acceleration in the first quarter of the year. The Kansas City Fed's Labor Market Co...

Media reports of the spread of the coronavirus from China exaggerate the risks. Of course, in this day of instant media that should be expected. Hourly reports list a few new cases in one country or another and breathless bureaucrats crowd the news channels uttering words like "pandemic" and...

At the end of January, I wrote a piece titled " This Is Nuts: Why We Reduced Risk " discussing why we took profits in our portfolios. Here is the important point: "When you sit down with your portfolio management team, and the first comment made is 'this is nuts,' it's probably time to thin...

By Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist Last week both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite indexes hit all-time highs mid-week before falling significantly at the end of the week on fears about the novel coronavirus (also known as COVID-19) impacting economic growth. Concerns a...

The P/E ratio is a commonly used indicator of value for broad market indices, but it has historically had poor predictive performance of future returns. The predictive power of the P/E ratio can be improved by adjusting for the stage of the business cycle using the average profit margin of the...

Not even 2 months into the new year and how many fresh highs? The recent low volatility environment can give the impression that risk factors are being treated with an out of sight, out of mind mentality. Interestingly, many of the risks that topped my list just six weeks ago haven't gone anyw...

Did The Market Just Get Infected? Just last week, we were asking the opposite question, as traders were believing that the market had immunity to the risks from the "coronavirus." This was a point we discussed with our RIAPRO subscribers in Monday's technical market update. ...

Who says there is no recession anywhere in sight? It depends on where you are looking. In short, manufacturing remains in recession; corporate profits remain in recession; freight remains deep in recession; Carmageddon remains in recession; and the Retail Apocalypse remains a recessi...