NVQ News and Press, QRAFT AI-Enhanced U.S. Next Value ETF From 12/01/23

2023-12-01 22:15:00 ET Summary With all this potential recession talk that has lasted two years, you would expect a lump of coal to arrive in your Christmas stocking this year. Quite the contrary, Santa Claus appears to have arrived early this year as evidenced by the +8.9% spike ...

2023-11-30 23:30:00 ET Summary Interest-rate hikes in the United States are on pause but may remain higher for longer with lagged effects likely to manifest in early 2024. There is renewed investor interest in fixed income as the asset class offers the potential for income and tot...

2023-11-28 23:25:00 ET Summary Through October, the year-to-date performance of U.S. small-mid-cap (SMID) equities, in comparison to large-cap equities, has been abysmal. The underperformance of smaller caps didn’t just start this year. Rather, it has extended for well over...

2023-11-28 13:13:00 ET Summary Sectors beyond big tech fueling gains. Why some industrial stocks are getting investor attention. The trends driving markets higher. The so-called magnificent seven tech stocks, including Apple and Nvidia, are often credited with being ...

2023-11-28 05:51:00 ET Summary Equities have an important role to play in a diversified allocation today, to help hedge against inflation and to navigate a lower-growth environment. This year, the ERP for US stocks has declined. Our ERP metric shows the earnings yield of the S&...

2023-11-27 23:45:00 ET Summary While I have seen the VIX fall under 10 in more normal times, I don’t believe the present times could be considered normal. Why do I think this correction would be small? Because investors have been looking for dips to buy and dips have not be...

2023-11-27 20:47:00 ET Summary The Thanksgiving holiday-shortened trading week saw the S&P 500 close at 4559.34, up 1.0% from the previous week's close. October 2023's short-term spike in long-term U.S. Treasury rates occurred just one month ago, so the model's raw projections...

2023-11-27 08:33:00 ET Summary While there has been a sharp decline in the expected Q4 ’23 S&P 500 EPS growth rate from 12.7% on 9/30/23 to 5.4% on 11/24/23, this is less worrisome given the y.y compare with Q4 ’22. The S&P 500 has not made a new high since t...

2023-11-27 03:08:00 ET Summary Q4 ’23 S&P 500 EPS has a weak comparison vs. year ago, to be sure, and if we “ex-Energy” from Q4 ’22, the quarter was even weaker at -7.2%. The one critical aspect to earnings reports that began last week with Walmart ...

2023-11-25 00:30:00 ET Summary One trend investors have become used to over the last year is the outperformance of mega-cap stocks while seemingly every other stock in the S&P 500 struggles. Across the S&P 500, the average performance of stocks in the index is a gain of 9....