OEF News and Press, iShares S&P 100 From 09/16/19

In this commentary we look at a potential shift in market leadership and the possible implications for portfolio strategies going forward. Change In Market Leadership: A Premonition Of The End In a week during which the S&P 500 moved very little, market strategists have a lot to co...

Last week was a fascinating five days in capital markets. While the S&P 500 ( VOO ) was up just over 1% amidst falling volatility, there were some meaningful moves underneath the surface of U.S. markets that should be noted by Seeking Alpha readers. I covered one interesting market move in...

On Wednesday morning, the famed "Big Short" hedge fund manager Michael Burry made headlines on Bloomberg, criticizing irrational passive inflows into large-cap companies, saying: "The bubble in passive investing through ETFs and index funds as well as the trend to very large size among asse...

by Daniel Shvartsman One spectrum for investment analysis is top down vs. bottom up. Another is technical analysis vs. fundamental. Existing somewhat perpendicular to these two axes is the analysis of quantitative behavior in the market. In this case, I'm speaking about central bank behavi...

Professionally, I'm both a lawyer and an analyst, which means I suffer twice-over from "on the other hand"-ism. So, here's the conclusion. The possibility of strong equity markets advances is being diminished by a softer economic backdrop, the bond market rally, and underlying market techn...

Prices in the bond market and in the stock market have been traveling in the same direction. This is not the pattern one might expect. Looking at the bond market first, bond prices have been rising for the past three months. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note hit 3.25 percent on Nove...