IWB News and Press, iShares Russell 1000 From 06/07/20

By Philip Lawlor, managing director, head of Global Markets Research US stocks regained their dominance with the global risk rally of the past two months, and US small caps have led the way. The Russell 2000 is up almost 40% from its March 23 low, outstripping the gains of 38% the Russell ...

So far anyway, although there is another four weeks until Q2 '20 earnings start, here is how 2019-2021 S&P 500 EPS look: 2021: $164.00 (current estimate for full-year 2021 S&P 500 EPS) 2020: $125.48 (current estimate) 2019: $162.93 - actual I've written the l...

There is a often repeated story on Wall Street that in the weeks and months ahead of the infamous stock market crash of 1929, Joe Kennedy was fortunate enough to liquidate a major portion of his equity holdings after hearing a number of shoe shine boys giving stock tips. The story typifies...

Nothing has really changed yet in terms of “style-box” returns with Growth outpacing Value and Large-Cap beating Small-Cap. Late in the week of May 222nd, The CFA Society of Chicago held a webinar with Gina Adams of Bloomberg (one of Bloomberg’s Equity Strategists), whic...

It’s been said time and again that one of the advantages of owning shares of an ETF is the one-trade access it provides to a diversified portfolio. Whether the ETF is oriented toward an asset class, a region, a line of business or a general combination of these, we should at least be e...

Using Refinitiv's Earnings Aggregates published this morning, Friday, May 22nd, 2020, and updating our spreadsheet, readers can see the continued decline in the rate of erosion in forward estimates, which - all other things being equal - should be very much a positive for the S&P 500 and t...

By Samantha S. Lau Small-cap stocks were hit harder than large-caps in the coronavirus sell-off. But given the extreme market dislocations, select smaller companies with innovative advantages could offer investors a surprising source of diversification for the uncertain times ahead. Inve...

At Russell Investments, we believe in holding a strategic allocation to the value style, or factor within the equity market. Investing in stocks with depressed valuation multiples is widely understood by academics and fund managers to have outperformed passive equity benchmarks since the 192...

Nowhere, other than the stock market, are people more inclined to fantasize. We fantasize about finding the next ten-bagger, about realizing wealth beyond our wildest dreams, and about fulfilling all of our ego-based expectations. This is normal human behavior, and quite common, especially...

In our last article , Part 1 of 2, we discussed the tremendous strains that many small businesses are experiencing in light of the recent mandatory shutdowns across various states. Specifically, we cited three surveys that were recently conducted with these small business owners, to better ...