SCHX News and Press, Schwab U.S. Large-Cap From 05/12/22

The pure pandemic beneficiary names – companies like Zoom, Peloton, and the ARK funds – have given back all of their pandemic stock market gains and then some. If we do have a recession sometime in the next twelve months, it doesn’t appear as though an unknown ass...

During Refinitiv Lipper’s fund flows week ended May 4, 2022, investors were overall net redeemers of fund assets (including both conventional funds and ETFs) for the fourth week in five, withdrawing a net $11.5 billion from the market. As of May 5, the average contract rate for...

Investors watched $11.5B worth of fund assets that include ETFs and conventional funds exit the door for the week ending May 4th according to the latest Refinitiv Lipper fund flow report. The outflows marked the fourth week of redemptions over the past five weeks. Money market funds...

The 10-year vs. two-year US Treasury yield curve momentarily inverted, and many are worried about the negative signals this may send for risk assets and the economy at large. Under normal conditions, the yield-curve trends upward as duration increases; longer-term bonds offer more yie...

Beyond the broad S&P benchmark, 45% of NASDAQ 100 stocks are already off more than 50%, which only happened as part of the larger-than-historically-average bear markets of 2000-02 and 2008-09. The last eight times the S&P 500 was down in a calendar year, bonds finished the yea...

Market commentary I have been seeing has had an unusual split: warnings about the collapse of the bond market, as well as imminent recession. The preliminary report for U.S. Q1 real GDP was released last week, which registered an annualised decline of -1.4%. Although there are som...

Long-term success is rarely achieved without some suffering. The S&P 500 is already off -14% from its highest levels experienced at the beginning of the year. Panic is rarely a profitable strategy, so now is probably not the best time to knee-jerk react to the price declines. ...

The expected risk premium continued sliding in April for the Global Markets Index (GMI). Tuesday’s revision reflects a drop to a 5.4% annualized increase for the long term – a relatively large cut of 40 basis points from last month’s estimate. The forecast ref...

Friday, the market woke up to think about the realities of a recession suddenly staring back at them from the mirror. That ugly truth will remain in front of them, regardless of what the Fed does. It took no change in the news at all to completely knock the exuberant market down i...

The stagflation scenario got a little more traction last week with the release of a negative Q1 GDP print on Thursday and hints of more inflation on Friday. April was a really rotten month with everything down but the general commodity indexes. Investing is mostly an exercise in s...