IWB News and Press, iShares Russell 1000 From 04/29/20

by Daniel Shvartsman We've taken to calling the fiscal and monetary plans to deal with the coronavirus shutdown as stimulus. But as Nick Gomez, who writes as ANG Traders and runs Away From The Herd on the Marketplace, makes clear, this isn't a stimulus plan, it's a way to fill an econo...

Editors' Note: This is the transcript of the video we posted yesterday. Please note that due to time and audio constraints, transcription may not be perfect. We encourage you to listen to the video as well as a combined podcast featuring two other interviews along with this one, embedded be...

We would like to start off this article with a basic premise for what is to follow: The Coronavirus, and its future path, will be the single-most important factor in shaping the global economy for the next 18-24 months. Now, that statement might seem obvious to some, but if that is the cas...

by Daniel Shvartsman We continue our Coronavirus Roundtable series of speaking with Marketplace authors about the current market by talking with Michael Gayed of The Lead-Lag Report . Gayed, also the portfolio manager for the ATAC Rotation Fund ( ATACX ), is a believer in a tactical app...

America is almost certainly already in a deep recession. Major economic drivers including air travel, cruise lines, concerts, and conferences came to a halt weeks ago, cutting tens of billions of dollars in consumer spending out of the economy. In the weeks since, other massive swaths of the ec...

Once again, no one cares about the economic calendar. There have been big changes with more to come. While many claim to know what those changes will be, I see only speculation. We must embark on a quest for clarity. This implies the willingness to seek new information and go where it ...

I will go to my grave... believing that really loose monetary policy greatly contributed to the Financial Crisis. There were obviously problems with regulation, but when we had a 1% Fed Funds rate in 2003 after, to me, it was pretty obvious that the economy had turned (up) and I think t...

( Source ) Tesla (TSLA) fanboys aren't known for needing a lot of reasons to celebrate, but the recent rally that pulled the company's stock to new heights and the resulting praise of Elon Musk's genius was extreme by their own standards. But through the haze of cheap praise, even the bigges...

The following data is derived from trading activity on the Tradeweb Markets institutional European- and U.S.-listed ETF platforms. European-Listed ETFs Total traded volume Activity on the Tradeweb European-listed ETF marketplace reached EUR 30.7 billion in December. The proportion of t...

The following data is derived from trading activity on the Tradeweb Markets institutional European- and U.S.-listed ETF platforms. European-Listed ETFs Total traded volume More than EUR 31.1 billion was executed on the Tradeweb European-listed ETF marketplace in November. The proporti...