IMCV News and Press, iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF From 11/03/23

2023-11-03 00:30:00 ET Summary Even though the S&P 500 has moved decisively higher over the past week, sentiment has entirely shrugged off price action. Bullish sentiment has now dropped for three straight weeks, having fallen 15.7 percentage points in that span for the larges...

2023-11-02 04:47:00 ET Summary Looking at the 24-month rolling correlation between the total return of the S&P 500 Index, including dividends, and the 10-year Treasury bond, including coupons, reveals significant volatility. During periods when inflation was moderate, correlat...

2023-11-01 02:25:00 ET Summary Despite an okay earnings season thus far, stocks are bearing the brunt of softening investor sentiment and corporate uncertainty. This week, 2,357 companies are expected to report for Q3, 170 from the S&P 500. Potential Surprises this week: C...

2023-10-31 23:35:00 ET Summary The most notable of these was in S&P 500 futures. Whereas this past summer saw positioning shift to the most net short levels in over a decade. The small-cap Russell 2000 still remains deep in net short territory, although there was some improvem...

2023-10-31 03:00:00 ET Summary Are markets experiencing 'irrational exuberance?' Why the U.S. consumer may be at the end of their spending rope. Has the Fed lost its influence over the U.S. economy? Transcript Greg Bonnell: From geopolitical risk to drama...

2023-10-30 20:01:00 ET Summary The average time from a yield curve inversion (long interest rates below short) to the onset of recession has been ten months historically. Yield curve re-steepening has preceded the onset of past recessions with a lag of zero to nine months. Sin...

2023-10-30 19:40:00 ET Summary The problems we face today, from wars to inflation to dysfunctional politics, are serious but they are no more serious than those we’ve faced in the past. Stocks have performed poorly but the underlying driver of stock prices – earnings...

2023-10-30 15:20:00 ET Summary S&P 500 fell 2.5% during the trading week ending on Friday, 27 October 2023. The index closed the week at 4117.37. The index is just a little over a 1.5% decline in value away from crossing the threshold where that scenario becomes more than an a...

2023-10-30 12:20:00 ET Summary The great frustration about this selloff is that the market is moving so slowly. While rates are dramatically higher, which should send stocks lower, the government is shoving money into the system in immense numbers, which keeps the market from plun...

2023-10-27 21:15:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 forward 4-quarter estimate slipped to $238.46 from last week’s $238.95, despite a good week of tech sector earnings. The P/E ratio fell to 17.3x this week from last week’s 17.7x and 9/30/23’s 18.4x. The S&...