PQSV News and Press, PGIM QMA Strategic Alpha Small-Cap Value ETF PGIM ETF Trust From 09/02/22

Summary Before the Great Financial Crisis of 2008-09, savers could easily invest in perfectly safe GICs, bonds and savings accounts with interest rates over 4%. The low rate revolution became a war on savers that lasted the better part of twelve years. The yield on the five-ye...

Summary In the wake of Jackson Hole and more hawkish than previously expected Fedspeak, the S&P 500 is on pace for its worst week since June. Bearish sentiment’s eight percentage point week-over-week increase was the largest since mid-June and the third weekly increase ...

Summary The market’s trend (based on the S&P 500 Index) has remained negatively skewed all along. The renewed slide in the stock market implies that the expected return for a relatively long holding period has popped. The recent downturn in market prices has taken s...

Summary Political Calculations' initial estimate of median household income in July 2022 is $78,532, an increase of $651 (or 0.84%) from the initial estimate of $77,881 in June 2022. July 2022 saw the typical American household gain positive traction with respect to inflation for ...

Summary Companies with enduring pricing power have the potential to perform well in the current environment. When stagflation strikes, companies with true pricing power have tended to perform well. Recent earnings reports are weeding out those that can preserve their profitabi...

Summary Only a few market events in an investor’s career really matter, and among the most important of all are superbubbles. These superbubbles are events unlike any others: while there are only a few in history for investors to study, they have clear features in common. ...

Summary Historically the worst month of the year for US stocks has been September. Will this September disappoint? Why has September been an underperforming month? It’s September again, so any number of articles will remind us that September has been the worst mon...

Summary If you want one asset class that has had a very good year, it’s the greenback or US dollar. If there’s one sign for a market reversal, I think it will eventually be accompanied by dollar weakness or a weaker UUP. Friday’s jobs report is a big deal ...

Summary Today's market X-ray shows the returns for each index, asset class, sector, and so on, since the recent low point on June 16th. Of the global indices, US small caps are in the lead, followed by the NASDAQ. High beta stocks are the most preferred factors since June 16. ...

Summary According to some indicators, the US economy entered the bust phase of the monetary-inflation-driven boom-bust cycle during the first quarter of this year with the TMS growth rate still above 6%. The US money-supply data for July-2022, which were published on Tuesday of th...