IWS News and Press, iShares Russell Mid-cap Value From 05/14/24

2024-05-14 10:10:00 ET Summary Demographic trends are elevating entitlement spending, and higher spending on infrastructure and other pandemic-era priorities has kept overall government outlays above pre-pandemic levels. Incremental deficit change is what influences growth rates, ...

2024-05-14 08:15:00 ET Summary Why market performance and sentiment are diverging. The growing gap between hard economic data and soft data. Why you may be losing money if you're not in the markets. The U.S. economy continues to show its resilience, but that ...

2024-05-14 06:55:00 ET Summary The tone in the foreign exchange market today is mostly consolidative. The US is set to announce a new set of tariffs on a wide range of Chinese goods later today. The longest rally in Europe's Stoxx 600 since October-November 2021 is being chall...

2024-05-14 03:40:00 ET Summary Three sentiment indicators reflected additional pessimism from the week prior after the PMI came in at 49.1, a PMI recession signal below 50. Investors should use any short-term dips in sentiment as an opportunity to add capital to accounts. Over...

2024-05-14 00:55:00 ET Summary Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari issued an essay saying that the recent inflation data raise questions about whether their monetary policy is restrictive enough to fully return price growth to the central bank’s 2% target rate. Kashkari...

2024-05-14 00:15:00 ET Summary While oversimplifying any formula in the financial markets tends to backfire more often than not, good inflation numbers tend to deliver new highs for the S&P 500. My thesis is that we put in a bottom in April, which should, hold with a dovish Fe...

2024-05-13 16:20:00 ET Summary Lower financing costs and loosening credit availability can help level the playing field between small- and large-cap stocks. Smaller caps are often under researched. Also, a selective approach helps find overlooked opportunities and manage risks. ...

2024-05-13 15:10:00 ET Summary With the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield approximately 4.5%, this represents competition for stocks if income is a focus for investors. Over the course of the last three months the S&P 500 Index utilities sector is up 19.3% followed by energy up 13.7...

2024-05-13 12:45:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 rose a little over 1.8% largely as expectations the Federal Reserve will start a series of rate cuts in September 2023 firmed. Several see inflation running too high, prompting them to suggest they will continue to hold rates where th...

2024-05-13 12:20:00 ET Summary While Japanese stocks have gotten a lot of press, it is Europe and EM stocks leading the international markets. In the US over the last three months, it is value stocks, including small and mid cap, that are outperforming. The dollar and interest...