OEF News and Press, iShares S&P 100 From 03/22/22

58 Companies in the S&P 100 are trading below their 200-day SMA. Analyzing the short-term and long-term prospects of three companies. Long-term prospects look good for General Motors, Starbucks, and Colgate-Palmolive. For further details see: Watching 3 Companies In ...

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...

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...

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...

OEF invests in U.S. mega-cap stocks. The fund is a natural momentum trade and will likely continue to benefit from positive inflows (not just via OEF), and/or forward momentum. On a valuation basis, OEF is likely trading around fair value, but its high underlying returns on equity...

Policy markers insist on touting that inflation is only "transitory" as much as it can. This may serve their cause, but it has nothing to do with what's happening on the ground. Price pressures are running wild across almost every aspect of life. The implications of a "higher ...

While the market started the week a bit sloppily, the bulls charged back on Thursday as earnings season officially got underway. With the market crossing above significant resistance at the 50-DMA and turning both seasonal “buy signals” confirmed, it appears a push for p...

Global equities rose through most of the third quarter but gave up most of their gains in a volatile September. As the forces driving stock returns rapidly change in our COVID-scarred world, we believe active managers can help investors effectively navigate the recovery’s uncer...