IVW News and Press, iShares S&P 500 Growth From 02/07/24

2024-02-07 01:45:00 ET Summary The prospect of a contentious election year might concern investors, but what really matters to markets is policy, not politics. Tax policy stands as one of the most immediate areas influenced by election outcomes. The election outcome often dete...

2024-02-07 00:45:00 ET Summary Depending on which market indicator is utilized, the US market has been rising since late 2021 or early 2022. One could say the trend is long enough and it could be due for a reversal. I tend to use the Standard & Poor's 500 as my single measurem...

2024-02-07 00:08:00 ET Summary The decline in bond yields and policy rate expectations that closed 2023 underwent a sharp reversal, but that failed to dampen sentiment in equity markets. The pullback in Fed rate-cut expectations was amplified by Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s...

2024-02-06 12:30:00 ET Summary The International Monetary Fund (IMF) upwardly revised its 2024 global growth forecast to 3.1% from 2.9%, largely because of a more resilient US economy and policy stimulus in China. New York Community Bank surprised markets by slashing its dividend ...

2024-02-06 11:55:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 Index has been on an uptrend since late October and has generated a positive return in 13 out of 14 weeks with a price return of 20.43%. Individuals bullish versus bearish about stock prices in the next 12 months have trended higher s...

2024-02-06 11:44:00 ET Summary With the market surging higher since the beginning of the year, bullish investors are drooling over the next significant milestone for the market – S&P Index 5000. Another interesting facet about the current market is that as the S&P I...

2024-02-06 10:51:00 ET Summary The total return of the S&P 500 remains behind Treasury bills since its January 2022 peak more than two years ago. Amid the enthusiasm and now nearly unanimous consensus that recession risk is behind us, I’ll reiterate our own view: the da...

2024-02-06 10:45:00 ET Summary The FOMC weighed all the economic data and decided to make it clear they would most likely not cut interest rates in March. The Fed’s favorite inflation indicator, the core Personal Consumption Expenditure rate, has been under the Fed’s...

2024-02-06 09:12:00 ET Summary There were 5 Bank failures in 2023 with $548B in assets according to the FDIC – two of which sent the S&P to the lows for the year in March. China was expected to add to post-COVID reopening growth; however, the government cracked down on ...

2024-02-06 07:05:00 ET Summary The US economy is ok - credit spreads are still quite low, liquidity is still abundant, the dollar is still strong, inflation is still declining, and there are only a few indicators that suggest caution. Owning short-term risk-free assets today has b...