KOMP News and Press, SPDR Kensho New Economies Composite From 02/28/26

2026-02-28 02:50:00 ET By Carrie King Corporate America delivered again, with the S&P 500 Index of U.S. stocks on pace for 13% growth in earnings for Q4 2025. This would mark the fifth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, a stretch not seen since the 2021-2022 emergen...

2026-02-27 23:05:00 ET By Elior Manier Another crazy month for markets is ending today, and investors are sighing after an impressive gap lower. The reasoning behind the risk-off flows was that US embassies in the Middle East had called for their staff to prepare security measur...

2026-02-27 22:00:00 ET By Ryan J. Puplava Tariff-ic Trouble The week opened with policy-driven volatility after President Trump raised the Section 122 global tariff rate to 15% from 10% and warned of further measures against countries attempting to revisit trade agreements. ...

2026-02-27 01:50:00 ET By Magdalena Ocampo, Market Strategist A volatile start to 2026: Rising geopolitical strains 2026, anticipated to bring stability after the turbulence of 2025, has instead begun with policy upheaval. A series of geopolitical flare-ups across multiple r...

2026-02-26 21:55:00 ET By Elior Manier What a fakeout in the stock markets. It hasn't been easy to find any clarity in recent price action, and today marks yet another sign of why. Nvidia ( NVDA ) just posted immense earnings, beating all records by a wide margin, with $68.1...

2026-02-26 06:56:00 ET Optimism builds as positioning evolves Equity managers are navigating a challenging backdrop: concentrated market leadership, wide valuation gaps between U.S. and non-U.S. equities, and policy uncertainty as we move through Q1 2026. AI positioning remains ...

2026-02-25 23:00:00 ET By Elior Manier US markets have run up higher after what seemed to be an eternal consolidation, led higher by tech. The sector, which had been hurting since October, hadn't led US markets since then, bringing a fresh picture to traders.... Read the f...

2026-02-25 06:20:00 ET There are 503 stocks that make up the S&P 500 ( SPX ) at the beginning of 2026. How many of them pay dividends to their shareholding owners?... Read the full article on Seeking Alpha For further details see: Dividend Payers In The S...

2026-02-25 05:30:00 ET Originally published on February 20, 2026 By Nick Niziolek, CFA & Dennis Cogan, CFA Executive Summary Read the full article on Seeking Alpha For further details see: The AI Inflection: Investing Beyond Sectors In A Thematic World

2026-02-23 10:09:00 ET For a holiday-shortened trading week, the third week of February 2026 was as jam-packed with news with market-moving potential as any we've ever seen. Yet the S&P 500 (Index: SPX ) closed out the week ending Friday, 20 February 2026 at 6,909.51 , up a ...