ESGL News and Press, Invesco ESG Revenue ETF Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II From 04/21/20

There had been hope that the coronavirus-triggered recession that's now roiling the US economy wouldn't show up in the data until the second quarter. But recent updates for March have smashed that idea, and so, next week's initial estimate of Q1 GDP is on track to post a loss, based on sever...

Stocks added to the gains of the prior week, bringing the two-week move to +16.6% in the S&P 500. As the economic data gets worse, traders get more aggressive in buying stocks. We are hearing lots of commentary about how serious the COVID-19 economic slowdown will be. The IMF’s econ...

The economic calendar is light and provides little post-COVID-19 data. Continuing jobless claims takes on a new importance, and we may get some useful information from the components of the University of Michigan sentiment survey. 96 companies in the S&P 500 will report earnings. The depth...

By Jill Mislinski April 17 morning's release of the publicly available data from ECRI puts the WLI at 111.3, up 4.5 from the previous week. The WLIg is at -42.55, down 6.05 from last week and its lowest level in its history. The ECRI Indicator Year-over-Year Below is a chart of ECRI's ...

The economic impact from the pandemic is early and already it is apparent that some sectors are being hit much harder than others. It is becoming increasingly clear that, so far, businesses are being hurt more than consumers. Going into the recession, businesses in general had much more debt o...

The markets have enjoyed a record-setting bear market rally of nearly 30% from the intraday lows reached on March 23rd, nearly a month ago. Bear market rallies, defined as short-term, powerful upside moves within a bear market environment are commonplace, but this one has been so strong that i...

By Robert Hughes AIER's Business Cycle Conditions Leading Indicators index held steady at 54 in March. March is the 11th consecutive month within the 46-54 range for the Leading Indicators Index. The Roughly Coincident Indicators index fell 17 points to 58, while the Lagging Indicators ind...

Q1 '20 S&P 500 earnings are going to reflect (probably) a strong January and February 2020 and then a very weak March 2020, while the second quarter will / could reflect a very weak April 2020 and then a slowly improving May and June 2020. The difficulty with earnings watchers such as my...

On Monday morning, we got some monthly economic data that will be actually valuable to watch throughout this coronavirus recession: consumer prices. That's because during recessions, consumer price growth decelerates, as does wage growth, which continues to decelerate well after the recession ...

The first quarter was an unprecedented one, as the S&P 500 Index decline was the fastest 30%+ sell-off ever. The market ultimately fell 33.9% from February 19 to its low on March 23, just 23 trading days. This occurred on the back of a strong 2019 where the S&P 500 Index was up 31.5% f...