PSCH News and Press, PowerShares S&P SmallCap Health Care Portfolio From 03/08/22

The pandemic has demonstrated how drugmakers can quickly and effectively harness medical innovations. Advances in genetic sequencing underpin many advancements in life sciences, and the sequencing of millions of DNA codes has become cheaper and easier. Given the remarkable groundb...

Almost every commodity rose in prices last week, as did the dollar. Those two factors - rising dollar and rising commodity prices - mean the likelihood of recession in the coming year has risen significantly in just the last week. There was considerable volatility in stocks last week,...

We think that the inflection point is now. The past 18 months have accelerated the use of technology both on the consumer and business side - whether it’s in e-commerce, digital banking, or clean energy. Companies that do not have sunk capital in legacy business models are ofte...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the biggest conventional military attack in Europe since World War II, has wide-ranging implications for economies and markets around the world. Disruptions from this war and the higher energy prices that result could significantly dampen Europe&#x...

VHT provides an opportunity to invest in a basket of US healthcare stocks. Investing in the healthcare segment is lucrative as it has the potential of high earnings growth, at times delivering exponential growth. VHT is not cheap at the moment, trading at more than 20x earnings, a...

The goal of the DDM is to quickly and easily utilize available resources of an asset to understand what the intrinsic value of that asset is based on certain market and company expectations. If the required return component of the equation rises without expectations of higher company ...

The anticipated end of the pandemic causes volatility because a transition phase will be priced as a new rotation from, for example, defensive staples to healthcare. Healthcare ETFs can add a defense to a portfolio that is overweight cyclicals, energy, and financials. US Airlines ...

Agriculture really hasn’t changed in 12,000 years. Part of the reason for that is we just didn’t have enough technology. There are different types of technologies, some within the realm of artificial intelligence but certainly also in robotics, that can now take bits of ...

At the end of 2019, had we been told that a two-year pandemic was about to begin, we would have found it impossible to predict the set of returns that followed in subsequent years. Historically, “tightening,” or “over-tightening,” policy was about corrallin...

Aeta: We know the transmissibility is higher for the omicron variant and will impact vaccine efficacy, but anecdotal hospital reports suggest that it milder. Aeta: Health care is having a solid year but is still lagging the market, as cyclicals are outperforming due to the strong econ...