IMCB News and Press, iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF From 06/19/24

2024-06-19 00:00:00 ET Summary Breadth has been the topic of the week, with the market cap weighted S&P 500 pushing to new highs, leaving behind cumulative AD lines and equal-weight measures of the same index. The combined market cap of what are currently the 30 largest stocks...

2024-06-17 22:10:00 ET Summary Elections for the EU parliament are sending shock waves throughout financial markets in Europe. This expectation of a French veto of Monsieur Macron’s party is causing investors to buy German bunds and sell French government bonds, causing an ...

2024-06-17 11:45:00 ET Summary The Russell 2000 fell 1.6% on Friday, was in the red year-to-date, was back where it had first been in January 2021, and was down 18% from its all-time high in November 2021. The Nasdaq Composite eked out the fifth record close in a row on Friday, an...

2024-06-17 10:30:00 ET Summary A flat monthly CPI number (year-over-year unchanged at 3.3% inflation rate) helped prompt a drop in the 10-year yield and fuel enthusiasm that we may see an early fall (September) rate cut. Due to the perception that the month-over-month inflation nu...

2024-06-17 09:15:00 ET Summary It was a good week for Wall Street's bulls seeking to navigate their way through the random onset of new information in the markets. As for the market-moving news the week held, a benign inflation report on Wednesday, 12 June 2024 was perhaps the mos...

2024-06-17 02:45:00 ET Summary For the Russell 2000 EPS growth rate, “ex-Energy”, it looks like the first quarter of ’24 will be the nadir in terms of yoy earnings declines. Many of the big sell-side firms and financial institutions are ratcheting up their num...

2024-06-15 04:00:00 ET Summary NVIDIA has been up 155% year to date; its market cap is over $3 trillion. All previous stock market bubbles share the following in common: a narrow stock market rally that focuses on a small group of stocks in a small sector of the economy that Wall ...

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2024-06-12 02:50:00 ET Summary The financial press is replete with comparisons to the dot-com bubble of 1999–2000. Some say that the Cisco split marked the top of the dot-com bubble. And they allege that the Nvidia split is doing the same. The other problem with the dot...

2024-06-10 22:15:00 ET Summary Because the stock market moved sharply and registered fresh all-time highs in the S&P 500 and NASDAQ, many wonder if they have missed the boat. The issue is that we have three companies with $3 trillion (or very close to it) in market cap, and as...