SDD News and Press, ProShares UltraShort SmallCap600 From 08/02/21

With the month of July now closed for the market, the S&P 500 Index is up 17.99% in the first seven months of the year. The mid-cap index is down 2.40% from its high, yet the average decline for the stocks in the index is 13.5% and nearly 57% of the stocks are down more than 10%. ...

The Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that seasonally adjusted U.S. real GDP grew at a 6.5% annual rate in Q2. That’s well above the 3.1% average growth that the U.S. experienced over 1947-2019. The Q2 growth puts the level of GDP at a new high, 0.8% above the peak that was...

Fortunately, the current year has been a bit kinder to prognosticators than the previous one. The bull market that began in 2009 didn’t end when the coronavirus panic pushed the S&P 500 down 34 percent from its previous high. The post-Covid rally, and particularly the fasci...

Initial claims for regular state unemployment insurance totaled 419,000 for the week ending July 17, a rise of 51,000 from the previous week’s tally of 368,000. The revised results suggest weekly initial claims may be plateauing around the 400,000 level. The number of ongoing c...

Vix spikes as volatility rattles the Dow. The advantage of using options strategies when markets turn volatile. How investors can use sector rotations. For further details see: Navigating Market Uncertainty And Higher Volatility

The S&P SmallCap 600, S&P MidCap 400, and Nasdaq 100 face minimal climate change risk. Many of their components are not exposed at all. The components that do face risk look ready to manage it. Climate change will bring opportunity as well as challenge. It will nev...

With low-cost, tradeable products tracking indices like the S&P MidCap 400® and the S&P SmallCap 600® being made available internationally, the opportunity set is changing. U.S. small and mid caps are a significant part of the global equity market, larger in size tha...

2020 was indeed a peculiar year for US equities. 25 years of data show an outperformance of 186 basis points per year (S&P 400) and 99 basis points per year (S&P 600) compared to the S&P 500. The S&P 400 and 600 have historically had a higher correlation to a numbe...

ProShares, a premier provider of ETFs, announced today forward and reverse share splits on twelve of its ETFs. The splits will not change the total value of a shareholder’s investment. Forward Splits Two ETFs will forward split shares at the following split ratios: ...

The function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. – John Kenneth Galbraith Where are you, small caps? Why have you not joined the biggest market rally of all time? I'm not talking about how the S&P 500 is doing, of course, or the Nasdaq. Whatever thos...