FNCL News and Press, Fidelity MSCI Financials Index From 02/22/22

Russia supplies natural gas to Europe, and in the event of US sanctions, this could impact Europe. But there are so many LNG ships in the Atlantic right now that lease rates have collapsed, so Russian threats to cut off Europe’s gas may not be much of a threat. The other big th...

Non-U.S. markets, including EM, DM, and Asia, are outperforming the U.S. markets after underperforming last year. After slightly underperforming growth last year, value is where the money is flowing. With the economy still in growth mode, cyclical stocks should do better than defe...

The growing US debt will impact our children’s assets and the future value of what our grandchildren inherit. It would be prudent to expect taxes of all sorts to increase. Increased taxes will lower the reported earnings of companies and will probably delay dividend increases. ...

For investors who want to earn a reasonable return without taking excessive risks, diversification still works, and we think you’re going to need more of it this year. The weighing of the high-flyers is not over. Commodities had another good week, and the 1-year return is getti...

An unloved industry for years, global banking shows signs of a pronounced turnaround. Breadth is strong among global banking stocks. Valuation and sharply better fundamentals make the case for continued outperformance. For further details see: Global Banking Shows Signs ...

The goal of the DDM is to quickly and easily utilize available resources of an asset to understand what the intrinsic value of that asset is based on certain market and company expectations. If the required return component of the equation rises without expectations of higher company ...

Banks have had a very good year in 2021 and a lot of the record performances achieved can be directly connected with the largess of the Federal Reserve System. In the next five years, the banking industry is going to change in major ways and the large banks, flush with money, will be ...

While inflation was at first believed to be transitory, it is now beginning to look persistent. Biotech stocks are close to 6.5% of the Russell 2000 Value Index benchmark, and only a few have earnings and positive cash flows. We also think the outlook is rosy for small-cap value i...

The latest IHS Markit US Sector PMI revealed that six of the seven broad sectors tracked by the surveys reported higher output in November. Despite some of the supply chain problems having eased in November, the extent to which production growth had been constrained is consistent with...

The problem with market speculation is that it starts to tempt the prudent investor into reckless behavior. What has always been prudent - owning a low-cost index fund - has now become a more speculative investment because of the degree of speculation in the market. The S&P 500 ha...