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The Invesco Nasdaq Next Gen 100 ETF targets the largest 100 non-financial Nasdaq-listed companies outside of the Nasdaq 100. Next Gen 100 members have historically graduated up to the Nasdaq 100 at about a 1-in-3 rate. Compared to QQQ, QQQJ is notably overweight in healthcare &...

Thesis Summary Since writing my original " Monetary Death Spiral " article in late September 2019, over $3.8 trillion has been added to the national debt, and yet the 10-year Treasury interest rate has fallen from around 1.7% to 0.65%. This speaks to the core paradox explained by the MDS...

In each of the past three calendar years, small cap stocks in the U.S. have lagged their large cap counterparts by roughly 6-7% per year. This trend accelerated even more dramatically in the first quarter of 2020 as small caps underperformed large caps by over 10%-a magnitude larger than any q...

Markets have settled and recovered from the initial shock of the coronavirus spread and the response of governments around the US and the world to lock down the economy. But while the major US indices have approached, if not quite matched, the fabled v-shaped recovery, there are still plenty o...

I started writing this article a few days ago, but Tuesday's close is a great example of how strange this market is. Tuesday, the market is up the entire day 70bps or so. Not unusual of late. Then, it turns out Moderna ( MRNA ), a company that's working on a vaccine, may have misrepresented i...

With markets achieving overall 10% gains from 2018-2019 and top performing big tech contributing to most market gains in the last 40 years, big tech companies in China and the U.S. - Alibaba ( BABA ), Tencent ( TCEHY ), JD.com ( JD ), Apple ( AAPL ), Microsoft ( MSFT ), Google ( GOOG ) and...

By Rahim Shad, Senior Analyst "If you build it, they will come," was a line immortalized in the movie "Field of Dreams." It is also a fitting mantra for telecommunications companies in 2020, as they launch new initiatives that they hope will turn into leading businesses in the future. ...

Reflections on 2019 This past year was defined by both extreme fear and extreme greed. Beginning the year in the wake of a ~20% correction in stocks, fear dominated the investment community. Widespread proclamations from prominent investors that a new bear market was upon us could be heard...

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