ITOT News and Press, iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market From 04/07/22

Inflation expectations have kept the Federal Reserve center stage as they commenced their interest rate rising cycle in March. The war in Ukraine and Omicron’s spread in China impacted inflation and supply chains differently, but both delay supply chain normalization. Regar...

Pick any barometer of costs these days, and the story is the same: Prices are up - and in a dramatic fashion. The first thing that jumps out is the dismal performance of most asset classes during periods of low growth and high inflation - otherwise known as stagflation. A solid fo...

iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF (ITOT) - $0.3246. 30-Day SEC Yield of 1.28% as of Feb. 28. Payable Mar 30; for shareholders of record Mar 25; ex-div Mar 24. For further details see: iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF declares quarterly distribution of $0.3...

ITOT is a broadly diversified U.S. equity ETF. Currently, valuations imply that ITOT is likely trading with the burden of investor risk aversion, particularly post Russia's recent and more formal invasion of Ukraine (after Crimea and Donbas). Long-term investors should sit comfort...

Emerging Markets are outperforming the rest of the world, due in large part to windfall profits in the commodities-exporting countries of South America and the Middle East. If you want to follow the money, this is a good place to start. Money has been flowing out of tech, consumer dis...

Larger companies have the advantage of scale, pricing power, greater ability to pass on higher costs to consumers, and stronger negotiating power with suppliers to name a few. Net profit will be an area looked at closely given the potential for multiple Fed rate hikes which will incre...

Canada sheds 200,000 jobs in January amid omicron wave. U.S. consumer prices rise at fastest rate in 40 years. Are brighter days ahead for U.S. small cap stocks? For further details see: Red-Hot: U.S. Inflation Surges At Blistering Pace

While US large caps have also struggled lately, they’ve fared far better than their smaller counterparts. Over the past year, much of the Russell 1000’s outperformance is attributable to its bigger exposures to technology and consumer discretionary industries. The sm...

SPY is the oldest (US), most actively traded ETF that tracks the S&P 500, to judge it as an investment, investors need to understand the index it replicates. The S&P 500 is a semi-actively managed index that only holds a subset of large-cap, profitable stocks, still, it slight...

There’s an important disconnect between stocks and bonds today. Specially, I am looking at two fundamental indicators for evaluating long-term interest rates. The first is the performance of small cap stocks relative to large caps. Typically, this ratio has moved in concert wit...