FOVL News and Press, iShares Focused Value Factor From 01/26/24

2024-01-26 19:20:00 ET Summary Earlier this week, the LSEG put up their quarterly earnings preview, and included within was the “market cap weight vs. sector weight” analysis of the 11 S&P 500 sectors. Apple, Meta and Amazon report after the closing bell on Febru...

2024-01-25 00:30:00 ET Summary There are any number of ways to illustrate the disparate performance of individual stocks based on market cap this year. YTD, the second-best performing stock in the S&P 500 - Nvidia – is also the fifth-largest company in terms of market c...

2024-01-24 21:50:00 ET Summary After two years of surging inflation, are we going back to Goldilocks? Investors loved the low inflation environments of the 1990s and 2010s, which delivered huge returns for equities, but they haven’t enjoyed the post-pandemic stock gains as ...

2024-01-24 09:45:00 ET Summary Market volatility can shake the resolve of even the most patient investors. While most low-volatility strategies can provide some measure of risk mitigation in down markets, many fall short during market rallies. An active approach focused on QSP...

2024-01-23 18:40:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 is flat on the session today as of this writing, but that doesn't take away from the fact that it has traded at record highs in each of the past three sessions. The S&P 500 has seen several significant drawdowns in its history, bu...

2024-01-22 20:25:00 ET Summary A table that Refinitiv publishes only occasionally is valuable since it gives perspective on the S&P 500 sector’s market cap weight in the benchmark, versus that same sector’s earnings. The problem in the late 1990s for large-cap te...

2024-01-22 11:15:00 ET Summary After weeks of hovering within easy striking distance of its old record high close, S&P 500 finally broke through and set a new record. The index reached its new record on 19 January 2024, closing out the trading week at 4,839.81. The record ...

2024-01-22 05:00:00 ET Summary After a correction from August through October, the market has been on a tear. Technology had a very good week, especially among the Magnificent 7 mega-cap stocks. The S&P Top 7 stocks continue to dominate the market, but that dominance is sl...

2024-01-20 21:06:00 ET Summary Our belief is that there will primarily be one call to get correct - one call to rule them all - and that is whether the US economy has a hard landing (recession) or a soft one. Every hard landing starts out as a soft landing, marked by the Fed's int...

2024-01-20 10:30:00 ET Summary On Friday, the S&P 500 Index hit a new high, surpassing its previous record set in January 2022. A resilient economy, quickly fading inflation, and strong 2023 performance fueled the market’s new record. It’s far more interestin...