IVE News and Press, iShares S&P 500 Value From 03/15/23

2023-03-15 23:05:00 ET Summary After more than 12 long years, the stage may finally be set for an extended upswing in small-caps. When leadership concentration broke down in previous cycles, we saw multiyear periods where small caps outperformed large caps. In the current cycl...

2023-03-15 22:32:00 ET Summary After the painful decline in stock prices last year, many investors have clearly come to the conclusion that this now represents another terrific buying opportunity. The forward price-to-earnings ratio now shows the S&P 500 trades at a multiple o...

2023-03-13 14:34:00 ET Summary The month of March is nearly halfway through and volatility has begun to pick up. Whereas the S&P 500 was up around 2% month to date as of this time last week, currently, the index is down over 2.5%. Although historically March might not be t...

2023-03-13 11:47:00 ET Summary Investors in the S&P 500 (SPX) couldn't catch a break during the trading week ending on 10 March 2023. At this time, it's premature to tell if the dividend futures-based model's multiplier has shifted again. The biggest question investor...

2023-03-11 02:24:27 ET Summary The Fed “pivot” which is “higher for longer” and the implications. We believe that the Fed is well aware of the need for a continued hiking process and therefore staying “higher for longer”. Volatility mo...

2023-03-10 02:52:00 ET Summary Inflation is not moving down as much as people are anticipating. Labor is showing signs of resilience and strength. The leading indicators are telling us that although things are looking good now, that may not hold up as we get to the back half o...

2023-03-09 03:17:00 ET Summary Put in a logical sequence, dividends should be the last step in the business sequence, since they represent residual cash flows. The most intuitive way to think about potential dividends is to think of it as the cash flow left over after every concei...

2023-03-08 22:05:00 ET Summary Over the past couple of sessions as the market has awaited Fed Chair Powell’s testimony, the S&P 500 has not seen particularly large gaps at the open. The moves in the past couple of sessions have essentially been the opposite of what is h...

2023-03-07 22:53:00 ET Summary Fed Chair Powell’s testimony on Capitol Hill over the next couple of days will be the main focus of the market. Hawkish commentary generally tends to be received poorly by the market with the S&P falling an average of 7.5 bps on those days...

2023-03-07 03:47:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 recovered a large portion of the ground in lost in the trading week ending on 3 March 2023. The CME Group's FedWatch Tool continued to project three consecutive quarter-point rate hikes at the Fed's upcoming 22 March, 3 May and 14 Jun...