PSCT News and Press, PowerShares S&P SmallCap Information Tech Ptf From 09/11/21

Small-cap stocks closed out another week of underperformance. The Russell 2000 (RTY) (NYSEARCA:IWM) lost 2.8% on the week. The S&P 500 (SP500) (NYSEARCA:SPY) fell 1.7%, the Dow (DJI) (NYSEARCA:DIA) closed down 2.2%, the Nasdaq (COMP.IND) was off 1.6%, and the Nasd...

In 2021, energy is where the money is going. Money is flowing out of Momentum stocks this year, and much of it is going into Value names. Commodities are having a strong showing compared to last year. For further details see: If You Want To Know Where The Market Action I...

GlobalFoundries announced a $4 billion investment in conjunction with Singapore government officials to greatly expand capacity at its existing chip fabrication plant (fab) in Singapore. The investment will enable the company to increase its overall output by 33%, growing its 300 mm w...

April CPI came in at 4.16%, and May CPI hit an eye-popping 4.99%, both higher than the consensus expectations. But, rather than being broad-based, consumer inflation appears to be concentrated in just a few specific items. When examining these specific items that have experienced ...

During the pandemic lockdown in the first half of 2020, only three S&P 500 sectors saw positive earnings and revenue growth for Q1 and Q2 ’20. In Q1 ’21, Technology has grown EPS and revenue 53% and 21%, respectively. Once Q2 ’21 earnings start in mid-July...

Since offshoring contributed to the long-term disinflationary trend, it would seem to make sense that reshoring would contribute to an inflationary trend. The "reshoring will lead to higher inflation" argument revolves around differences in labor costs, which are much higher in the US...

One factor behind the long disinflationary trend since the early 1990s has been offshoring of manufacturing, especially to China. Thus, it would seem to make sense that reshoring would produce an inflationary trend. This line of thinking is flawed for multiple reasons. In this art...

As the U.S. birth rate fell to a new low in 2020, it appears that COVID-19 and associated economic weakness/uncertainty has accelerated a preexisting trend of falling American fertility. If 2008-level fertility rates had persisted through 2020, 5.8 million more babies would have been ...

Ten years ago, Marc Andreessen wrote an article in the WSJ called ‘Software is eating the world’, arguing that there was a fundamental shift in the role that software plays in the economy. Now, there’s a generation of companies that both create software and use it...

As COVID-19 has spread across the globe, wreaking havoc, a financial pandemic has likewise proliferated around the world. Zombie companies, weak firms persistently unable to cover their fixed expenses with operating profits, massively increased in number in 2020. But zombie compan...