IWB News and Press, iShares Russell 1000 From 06/05/23

2023-06-05 08:07:19 ET Summary A new 2023/24 study continues the trading studies from 2017 testing abnormal Russell Index reconstitution returns from scholarly literature. Since 2017 the best return results from a Russell anomaly test generated +57.90% in the first six months and ...

2023-05-31 21:03:00 ET Summary Large-cap U.S. equities have rallied year-to-date by approximately nine percent (as of May 29th) and appear to show resiliency in the face of a potential recession. The outperformance of the ‘Big 8’ group has seen its market cap weight ...

2023-05-26 09:18:10 ET FTSE Russell will rebalance its indexes at the end of June and, as usual, a great deal of buying and selling will come from mutual funds and ETFs to track those changes. The preliminary list of changes came out last week, using April 28 for a cutoff date for marke...

2023-05-23 07:39:57 ET Goldman Sachs is more bullish on the U.S. economy than the rest of Wall Street. But its equity team has a list of stocks in case a hard landing from the tightening cycle materializes. Goldman's economists put the chance of a recession at 35%, compared with the Wal...

2023-05-20 06:00:00 ET Summary While virtually no global market segment escaped the turmoil of the past year, US large cap equities were dealt a particularly sharp blow. As defensive industries have cycled into favor, the market turmoil has led many investors to seek a defensive s...

2023-05-16 23:35:00 ET Summary 2023 is now continuing that past pattern of growth and large-cap growth relative performance. If you look at the 10 and 15-year annualized returns across all the US equity asset classes, even straight value vs. growth, the returns are not all that ap...

2023-05-13 09:30:00 ET Summary Trading activity on the Tradeweb European ETF marketplace reached EUR 39.6 billion in April, while the proportion of transactions processed via Tradeweb’s Automated Intelligent Execution tool was 81.9%. All ETF asset classes saw net buying in ...

2023-05-05 08:16:30 ET Regional bank stocks are getting a breather Friday after tumbling in the previous session, but there are still big worries heading into the weekend. The SPDR Regional Bank ETF ( NYSEARCA: KRE ) +2.5% and the iShares Regional Bank ETF ( NYSEARCA: IA...

2023-05-04 02:44:00 ET Summary 2023 has smashed all previous U.S. large-cap stock-market extremes including those of 2021 and 2022. Regardless of whether there is a soft landing or not, current valuations especially for the largest U.S. stocks aren't compatible with contracting ec...

2023-05-03 08:03:49 ET Actively managed funds faced a tough month in April, with only 40% of those tracked by BofA outperforming their benchmarks ( SPY ) ( IWB ) ( IWF ) ( IWD ). The 60% underperformed by a median of -0.29%, BofA's global quant strategy team said in a no...