IWB News and Press, iShares Russell 1000 From 03/06/22

Emerging Markets are outperforming the rest of the world, due in large part to windfall profits in the commodities-exporting countries of South America and the Middle East. If you want to follow the money, this is a good place to start. Money has been flowing out of tech, consumer dis...

IUSV is a value ETF whose top 2 sectors are financials and healthcare. It has slightly outperformed the Russell 1000 index since inception. However, I see two shortcomings penalizing its strategy. For further details see: IUSV: A Decent Value ETF, But It Could Be Better ...

Larger companies have the advantage of scale, pricing power, greater ability to pass on higher costs to consumers, and stronger negotiating power with suppliers to name a few. Net profit will be an area looked at closely given the potential for multiple Fed rate hikes which will incre...

With tensions rising between Russia and Ukraine the JPMorgan Chase macro research team screened Tuesday for stocks facing positive and negative impacts from the situation. "Russia-Ukraine tension is a low earnings risk for US corporates, but an Energy price shock amidst an aggressive central ...

Canada sheds 200,000 jobs in January amid omicron wave. U.S. consumer prices rise at fastest rate in 40 years. Are brighter days ahead for U.S. small cap stocks? For further details see: Red-Hot: U.S. Inflation Surges At Blistering Pace

While US large caps have also struggled lately, they’ve fared far better than their smaller counterparts. Over the past year, much of the Russell 1000’s outperformance is attributable to its bigger exposures to technology and consumer discretionary industries. The sm...

There’s an important disconnect between stocks and bonds today. Specially, I am looking at two fundamental indicators for evaluating long-term interest rates. The first is the performance of small cap stocks relative to large caps. Typically, this ratio has moved in concert wit...

Momentum stocks and companies yet to turn a profit are featured in the list of where Wall Street analysts have the most disagreement. "We find the companies whose future returns are hotly debated by screening for stocks with at least three analysts covering the stock where the standard deviat...

The Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF has a forward price-earnings ratio of 38.66, much higher than its peers in the U.S. Large-Cap Growth Category. Last quarter's earnings and revenue beats for the fund's top holdings were less than impressive, and actually lagged the Russell 1000 whi...

Trading activity on the Tradeweb European ETF marketplace reached EUR 47.4 billion in November, while the proportion of transactions completed via Tradeweb’s Automated Intelligent Execution (AiEX) tool was a record 77.8%. Total consolidated U.S. ETF notional value traded in Nov...