QUS News and Press, SPDR MSCI USA StrategicFactors From 02/10/22

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...

SPDR MSCI USA StrategicFactors ETF (NYSEARCA:QUS) - $0.9235. 30-Day SEC Yield of 1.24% as of Dec. 16. Payable Dec 27; for shareholders of record Dec 20; ex-div Dec 17. For further details see: SPDR MSCI USA StrategicFactors ETF declares semi-annual distribution of $0.9235

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...

Looking at the 2022 “expected” growth rates for S&P 500 EPS and revenue particularly since August ’21, readers are still seeing upward revisions. With 27% of the S&P 500 being tech today, the “earnings weight” is far higher, closer to 22-23%....

This is a quarterly FOMC meeting, which will result in a statement and economic projections. It is likely that the Fed will indicate the beginning of the end for QE starts in November. The Fed may also downgrade its GDP growth outlook. For further details see: The Fed Ma...

What we’ve seen this year is an exceptionally high rate of earnings growth across markets, but that’s not going to persist. It’ll start to moderate as we move into the second half of this year and slow further as we get into next year. And companies are going to b...

Since mid-May, the global rallies in Value and Size factors have cooled, and Quality has staged a robust comeback. The burst in reopening optimism last fall spurred a sharp rotation from Quality into Value, which is more heavily weighted to cyclically sensitive industries poised to pr...

The historic valuation gap between global Value and Growth stocks finally began its reversal. Despite pockets of outrageously overvalued Growth stocks being de-rated in Q1 and Q2, we still believe we are in a Growth bubble. Speculative behavior is rampant. We firmly believe that v...

Since value stocks are widely perceived as higher-risk assets, they typically benefit from risk-on market environments after a market shock. On average, value stocks returned 14.4% annualized. relative returns for the highest-profitability group are still far behind the average se...